B.A.W. Jackson (né Wallace) was born in London, England on 3 February 1916. Educated at McMaster University (B.A., 1939) and Oxford University (D.Phil., 1956), he taught in the Department of English at McMaster University from 1956 to 1981. In addition to editing the volumes of the Stratford Papers on Shakespeare, Jackson is the editor of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1964, rev. ed. 1980) in the Pelican Shakespeare series and Antony and Cleopatra (1968) in the Shakespeare Series published by Macmillan of Canada.