Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, FSA, FBA (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature.
[2][3][4] He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London.
[5] Woudhuysen was educated at St. Paul's School, London, and gained a DPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 1981.
His thesis title was Leicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578–1582 and his supervisor was Katherine Duncan-Jones.
[8] Between 1995 and 2020 Woudhuysen served as a general editor for the third series of the Arden Shakespeare.