Sylvan Saul Barnet (December 11, 1926 – January 11, 2016)[1] was an American literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.
He was a Fletcher Professor of English Emeritus at Tufts University and the general editor of the Signet Classics Shakespeare.
[2] Barnet was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Erasmus Hall High School.
In the early 1960s, Barnet successfully proposed to the New American Library the creation of a new series of Shakespeare's plays, one that would be aimed at college students.
Their writings on art drew inspiration from the couple's impressive personal collection, which was donated to four different museums after their deaths.