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Acknowledgments The editors wish to thank the staff and all the participants of the NEH Folger Institute Summer Seminar, ‘‘Texts of Imagination and Power,’’ conducted by Karen Ordahl Kupperman in 2000, which was the inspiration for this collection. We should especially like to thank Kathleen Lynch, Carol Brobeck, and Richard Kuhta of the Folger, Pompa Banerjee (the seminar participant who first came up with the idea for this volume), Alden and Virginia Vaughan, and Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Funds and other institutional support for the editors have been provided by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University . For help with illustrations, we wish to acknowledge Michael Scott of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Richard Hurley of the John Carter Brown Library, and Elizabeth Fuller of the Rosenbach Library. For advice and direction in putting together this book, we wish to express our gratitude to our editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, Robert Lockhart, along with Dan Richter, our series editor, and the anonymous readers for the press who were very thoughtful and helpful. ...

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