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  • Contributors

Patrick Cheney, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright (2004) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry (2006).

Holly A. Crocker is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, where she teaches fourteenth-through sixteenth-century British literature, focusing particularly on medieval and Reformation constructions of masculinity.

John Drakakis, Professor of English Studies at the University of Sterling, is the editor of Alternative Shakespeares (1985, 2002) and of Shakespearean Tragedy (1991), and has published widely on Shakespearean topics; he is also the general editor of Routledge’s New Critical Idiom series and has just completed an edition of The Merchant of Venice for the Arden Shakespeare (forthcoming in 2007).

Lars Engle, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the English department at the University of Tulsa, is also the author of Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of his Time (1993) and a coeditor of English Renaissance Drama: a Norton anthology (2002).

Alan B. Farmer, Assistant Professor of English at the Ohio State University, is co-editor of Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Institutions of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625–1642 (forthcoming from Palgrave); he is currently writing a book on news and printed drama in Caroline England.

Zachary Lesser, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade (2004); he is currently writing a book on the politics of tragicomic form.

Angela Locatelli, Professor of English Literature and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Bergamo, Italy, is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include several books and many articles on Shakespeare and on Elizabethan culture and literature, several articles [End Page 244] on twentieth-century drama, a study of the stream-of-consciousness novel, and an edition (with Italian translation) of Henry Peacham’s A Merry Discourse of Meum and Tuum, among others.

Randall Martin, Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, has edited Henry VI, Part Three for the Oxford Shakespeare (2001). He is currently working on a study of Shakespeare as a reader of St. Paul.

Steven W. May is the editor of Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works (2004) and compiler, with William A. Ringler Jr., of Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559–1603 (2004). He is a retired professor of English now residing in Tucker, Georgia.

Madhavi Menon, Assistant Professor of Literature at American University, is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (2004).

Nicholas R. Moschovakis, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, has essays forthcoming in a special issue of College Literature titled “Cognitive Shakespeare” and in a collection of essays edited by Stephen Cohen titled Shakespeare and Historical Formalism (2006). His current work focuses on topicality and literary allusion in Shakespeare, and on their implications for both historicist and presentist approaches to problems of intentionality and reception.

Shankar Raman, Associate Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of Framing India: The Colonial Imaginary in Early Modern Culture (2002).

Stuart Sillars is Professor of English at the University of Bergen. His most recent book is Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720–1820 (2005).

Claire Sponsler, Professor of English at the University of Iowa, is the author of Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America (2004), which received the 2005 Bernard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research. She is currently working on a study of John Lydgate and early drama.

Evelyn Tribble is Donald Collie Chair at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Lina Perkins Wilder, Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Carleton College, is currently at work on a book manuscript titled Shakespeare’s Memory Theater, a study of the dramaturgical implications of staged recollection in Shakespeare’s plays.

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