 NEW YORK " Sylvan Barnet, a longtime professor of literature at Tufts University who edited the budget-priced Signet Classic editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems used by countless students, has died. He was 89.Barnet died Monday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to his friend Helen Vendler. Vendler, a prominent poetry critic, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the cause of death was …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:40PM on January 14, 2016