Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary

Contributors

279 Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University and author of The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene (1976), Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing (1984), Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English (1996), Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England (2005), and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (2008), which was awarded the MacCaffrey Award of the International Spenser Society; she is also coeditor of Will’s Vision of Piers Plowman (1990), Spenser’s Life and the Subject of Biography (1996), Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction: FirstYear English, Humanities Core Courses, Seminars (2007), and Go Figure: Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World (2011). Her current book project is titled Issues of Analogy, Light, and Death. Matthias Bauer is professor of English literature at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He has published numerous articles on early modern writers, including Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan. His book on Mystical Linguistics: George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughan is forthcoming. He has also edited, with Angelika Zirker, Drama and Cultural Change: Turning around Shakespeare (2009), and he is cofounder and editor of Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. Mary Blackstone is professor emerita of theatre and director of the Centre for the Study of Script Development at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, and former dean of fine arts, chair of the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans, and member of the board of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans. Both an early modern cultural historian and a professional dramaturge engaged in the development of new dramatic scripts for stage and screen, she has published numerous articles and chapters on Shakespeare and on topics such as religion, patronage, and women’s writing. She is currently writing a book titled The Performance of Commonwealth in Early Modern England, which treats the role of various kinds of traveling performers in developing a concept of “commonwealth.” Contributors 280 Contributors The late Marshall Grossman was professor of English at the University of Maryland , College Park. He was the author of three books, Authors to Themselves: Milton and the Revelation of History (1987), The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in Renaissance English Narrative Poetry (1998), and the Blackwell Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook. He also edited Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (1998) and Reading Renaissance Ethics (2007). He was working on Milton and the development of rational religion. Julian Lamb completed his BA at the Australian National University and his PhD at Cambridge University; he currently teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published on Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesie, early modern English dictionaries, and Wittgenstein, and he has recently coedited Art and Authenticity (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010). Catherine Gimelli Martin is professor of English at the University of Memphis. She is the author of The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention (1998), which received the James Holly Hanford prize of the Milton Society of America; Milton and Gender (2004); and Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism (2010). She is also coeditor of Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Modern Thought (2005). Her essay “The Erotology of Donne’s ‘Extasie ’” was awarded the essay prize of the John Donne Society in 2006. David Lee Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, where he directs the Center for Digital Humanities. He is the author of two books, The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (1988) and Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness (2003) and has coedited four collections, including A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger Jr. and the Arts of Interpretation (2009), with Nina Levine. His current project, with four other general editors, is a new Collected Works of Edmund Spenser in preparation for Oxford University Press. Jennifer Pacenza is currently completing a PhD at Indiana University, where she is focusing on Renaissance drama and performance, with a minor in science and literature. She has a MA in literature and a MS in library sciences from the University of North Texas. Her dissertation proposes the concept of dramatic experimentation, based on the performative nature of scientific experimentation and knowledge production, to explore how Renaissance theatrical works are themselves experiments in theater historiography. Jeanne Shami is...