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  • Contributors

Douglas Bruster is the author, with Robert Weimann, of Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre: Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama (2004); he and Dr. Weimann are also collaborating on a study of Shakespeare and performance in the early modern era.

Colin Burrow, Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, is the editor of The Complete Poems and Sonnets for the Oxford Shakespeare (2002) and of the poems in the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson.

Ann C. Christensen, Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston, has published essays on early modern drama and poetry, recently participated as a panelist at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and is working on a study of home, work, and drama in early modern England.

Cyndia Susan Clegg, Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Pepperdine University, has published widely in the areas of literature and censorship, as well as on the history of the book.

Susan Comilang is an Assistant Professor of English at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Lukas Erne, Professor of English Literature at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003) and Beyond The Spanish Tragedy; A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001), and the coeditor, with M.J. Kidnie, of Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama (2004).

Michael D. Friedman, Professor of English at the University of Scranton, is the author of “The World Must Be Peopled": Shakespeare's Comedies of Forgiveness (2002).

Barry Gaines is Professor of English Literature at the University of New Mexico. His editions of Romeo and Juliet (1597), with Jill Levenson, for the Malone Society and Antony and Cleopatra, with Janet Suzman, for the Applause Shakespeare are his latest publications. [End Page 364]

Daniel Juan Gil, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon, is the author of Before Intimacy: The Social Structure of Passion from Wyatt to Shakespeare (forthcoming 2005).

Jonathan Gil Harris, Professor of English at the George Washington University, is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (1998) and Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England (2004). He is also the co-editor, with Natasha Korda, of Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (2002).

Phebe Jensen, Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, has published articles on recusant, political, and dramatic culture in early modern England, and is currently at work on a study of drama, festivity, and Catholicism.

Margaret Jane Kidnie, Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, is the editor of Ben Jonson: The Devil is an Ass and Other Plays (2000) and Philip Stubbes's The Anatomie of Abuses (2002), and the coeditor, with Lukas Erne, of Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama (2004). Her current projects include an edition of Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness for Arden and a monograph on late-twentieth-century performance and stage adaptation.

James A. Knapp, Associate Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, is the author of Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England (2003) and co-editor, with Jeffrey Pence, of a two-part special issue of Poetics Today titled "Between Thing and Theory; or The Reflective Turn" (2003-4).

Roslyn L. Knutson, Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the author of Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time (2001), publishes frequently on topics in theater history.

Mary Ellen Lamb, Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, has published essays in such journals as Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare Survey, Review of English Studies, Criticism, and Critical Survey. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Productions of Popular Culture in Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson, forthcoming from Routledge.

Naomi Conn Liebler is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Montclair State University. She is the author of Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre (1995); co-editor of a critical anthology titled [End Page 365] Tragedy (1998); and, most recently, editor of The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance...

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