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  • Contributors

J. K. BARRET, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. She is particularly interested in conceptions of time in the period. Her first book, Untold Futures, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press; her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in collections and journals including ELH and English Literary Renaissance.

PETER BEREK is Professor Emeritus at Mount Holyoke and Visiting Professor of English at Amherst College. A recent essay on the publication of early modern playbooks appears in Philological Quarterly; another essay is forthcoming in SEL.

REBECCA BUSHNELL is the School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a scholar of classical and early modern English literature and culture. She is the author most recently of Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (Cornell UP, 2003) and Tragedy: A Short Introduction (Blackwell, 2008), as well as the editor of A Companion to Tragedy (Blackwell, 2005).

DARRYL CHALK is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Southern Queensland. He is coeditor (with Laurie Johnson) of Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares (Cambridge Scholars, 2010) and has published articles in Early Modern Literary Studies and various edited collections. He is currently writing a monograph on contagion in early modern theatre and culture.

WARREN CHERNAIK is Emeritus Professor of English, University of London, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London. He was the founding Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and is now a Senior Research Fellow of IES. He is the author of The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Cambridge UP, 2011), The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s History Plays (Cambridge UP, 2007), a study of The Merchant of Venice (Northcote House, 2005), Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature (Cambridge UP, 1995), and The Poet’s Time: Politics and Religion in the Work of Andrew Marvell (Cambridge UP, 1983). He is completing a book on Milton entitled Free to Fall: Liberty and Providence in Milton, and has recently [End Page 527] published essays on Shakespeare in Cahiers Ėlisabéthains, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and English.

FERNANDO CIONI is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florence. He has edited four collections of Shakespeare’s plays in Italian (Tragedies, Romantic Comedies, Problem Plays, and Romances and Histories). He is coeditor with Keir Elam of A Civil Conversation: Anglo-Italian Literary and Cultural Exchange in the Renaissance (CLUEB, 2003) and with Virginia Mason Vaughan and Jacqueline Bessel of Speaking Pictures: The Visual/Verbal Nexus of Dramatic Performance (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2010). He is editor of the New Variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew. He has recently published a full annotated bilingual edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is currently working on a book with the provisional title Jewish Characters on the English Early Modern Stage.

MICHELLE M. DOWD is Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2009) and The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage (Cambridge UP, 2015). She is also the editor of the Shakespeare section of the journal Literature Compass.

JOHN GILLIES is Professor in Literature in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference (Cambridge UP, 1994) and essays on Shakespeare, Milton, and early modern literature and drama. He is coauthor or coeditor of Performing Shakespeare in Japan, Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge UP, 2010), and several multimedia packages on theater history, including Performing Shakespeare in China, 1980–1990. He is currently working on two books, titled Complicity: A History and Shakespeare under Sin.

STUART HAMPTON-REEVES is Professor of Research-Informed Teaching at the University of Central Lancashire and Head of the British Shakespeare Association. He is the author of several books and articles on Shakespeare’s history plays and Shakespeare in performance. He is also one of the General Editors of the Palgrave...

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