Contributors
- Contributors
MICHAEL D. BRISTOL is Greenshields Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at McGill University in Montréal, Québec. Much of his work has been concerned with situating Shakespeare’s works in the social context of their production and reception. He is the author of several books on Shakespeare’s theater, including Carnival and Theatre: Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England, Shakespeare’s America / America’s Shakespeare, and Big-Time Shakespeare. His most recent publication is Shakespeare and Moral Agency, a volume of essays focused on the philosophical context of the plays. Since his retirement he has tried, with limited success, to become a flâneur.
BRIAN CUMMINGS is Anniversary Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York. His interests include European humanism and the history of religion as well as Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. Publications include Mortal Thoughts: Religion, Secularity and Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture (2013) and a critical edition of The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 (now an Oxford World’s Classic). He is currently working on an “anti-biography” of Shakespeare and a study of Erasmus.
MARGRETA DE GRAZIA is Emerita Sheli Z. and Burt X. Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Shakespeare Verbatim (1991) and “Hamlet” Without Hamlet (2007). She has coedited Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture (1996) with Maureen Quilligan and Peter Stallybrass, and the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2001) and The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2010), both with Stanley Wells.
ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012, paperback 2014), Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005, paperback 2008), and other works on early modern literature and culture. He is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and the Irish Times and is Vice-Chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies. [End Page 497]
JULIA REINHARD LUPTON has taught at the University of California, Irvine since 1989. She currently serves as Associate Dean of Research and Director of Illuminations, the Chancellor’s Arts and Culture Initiative. She is the author or coauthor of four books on Shakespeare and the editor, coeditor, or author of several volumes and many essays on Shakespeare and political theology. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is completing a book entitled Shakespeare Dwelling: Habitation, Hospitality, Design.
LENA COWEN ORLIN is Professor of English at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her publications include Locating Privacy in Tudor London (2009) and The Bedford Shakespeare (coedited with Russ McDonald, 2015). She is at work on a monograph on “The Private Life of William Shakespeare.”
LOIS POTTER is Ned B. Allen Professor Emerita of the University of Delaware. She has published on Shakespeare, early modern drama, theater history, and Robin Hood. Her most recent book is The Life of William Shakespeare (2012).
JOSEPH ROACH, Sterling Professor of Theater at Yale University, is the author of The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting (1985), Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (1997), and It (2007). As a director, his most recent Shakespeare production was Richard III (Yale College Theater Studies, 2013). [End Page 498]
