Reginald A. Foakes (18 October 1923 – 22 December 2013) was an English author andShakespeare scholar. He has published works on Shakespeare and theRomantic poets and edited many of Shakespeare's plays in theArden andNew Cambridge editions. He also helped found the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was ProfessorEmeritus in the department ofEnglish literature atUCLA.^[1][2] He died at his home in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Beyond Shakespeare, his scholarly work also included editing the theatrical papers ofPhilip Henslowe, work onSamuel Taylor Coleridge's literary criticism.^[3][4]

In 2001, theUniversity of Birmingham gave Foakes an honorary degree in honor of the 50th anniversary of their Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.^[5]

• Honouring Professor Reg FoakesArchived 19 January 2018 at theWayback Machine
• In memory of Reg Foakes
• Imagined Places: A life in the twentieth century (Xlibris, 2005,ISBN 978-1-4134-9914-8), Foakes' autobiography.
• Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes (Grace Ioppolo, ed., University of Delaware Press, 2000,ISBN 978-0-87413-732-3)

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