David Norbrook (born 1 June 1950) is an Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
His doctoral thesis focused on Elizabethan and Jacobean monarchical panegyric and was supervised by John Buxton and Penry Williams.
[2] He became fellow and tutor in English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1978 to 1998, and offered some support to the radical pressure group Oxford English Limited in the late 1980s.
He was Merton Professor of English Literature between 2002 and 2014, and was founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies.
[6] Norbrook is the general editor of a four-volume edition of the works of Lucy Hutchinson, a Republican chronicler of the English Civil War.