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  • Contributors

Patricia Badir has published on community and public space in medieval and Reformation drama, as well as on religious iconography in postmedieval writing. Her recent book is called The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550–1700 (2009). She is currently working on risk and playmaking on Shakespeare’s stage. She also publishes on early twentieth-century Canadian drama and performance.

Tom Bishop is Professor of English at the University of Auckland. His publications include Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder (1996) and a translation of Ovid’s Amores (2003). He is also a general editor of the Shakespearean International Yearbook. His current work is on Shakespeare’s theater games.

Graham Hammill is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is the author of Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon (2000) and The Mosaic Constitution: Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton (2012). He is also coeditor of Political Theology and Early Modernity (forthcoming, 2012).

David Kathman is an independent scholar in Chicago. He has done extensive archival research on theatrical apprenticeship, playing venues of sixteenth-century London, and the biographies of early modern English theater people. His writings on Shakespeare and theater history have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Theatre Notebook, Early Theatre, Notes and Queries, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, among other places.

Paul A. Kottman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (2009) and A Politics of the Scene (2008) and is the editor of Philosophers on Shakespeare (2009). He is currently completing a book tentatively entitled Defying the Stars: Romantic Love as the Struggle for Freedom.

Brian C. Lockey is Associate Professor of English Literature at St. John’s University. He is the author of Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature [End Page 143] (2006, 2009) and recently contributed a chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (2012). His essays have appeared in English Literary Renaissance, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. He is now working on a second book project entitled Catholics, Royalists, Cosmopolitans: Writing from the Margins of Renaissance England.

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or co-author of four books on Shakespeare, most recently Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (2011). She is currently writing a book on Shakespeare and hospitality.

Richard C. McCoy is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He recently completed Faith in Shakespeare, a study of links between plays that ask an audience to “awake your faith” or “believe then, if you please” and shifts in Reformation religious beliefs.

Margaret Mikesell is Professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY. She coedited The Instruction of a Christen Woman by Juan Luis Vives (2002) and Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women (2003). She has also published on Vives, Shakespeare’s comedies, and Jacobean tragedy and is currently at work on a study of gender in Hamlet.

Ian Frederick Moulton is Head of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication in Arizona State University’s School of Letters and Sciences. He is the author of Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England (2000) and editor and translator of Antonio Vignali’s La Cazzaria, an erotic and political dialogue from Renaissance Italy (2003). He is currently writing a book on the cultural dissemination of notions of romantic love in sixteenth-century Europe.

Scott A. Trudell is currently completing his Ph.D. dissertation, Literary Song: Poetry, Drama and Acoustic Performance in Early Modern England, at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has essays forthcoming in Studies in Philology and in Early Modern Theatricality, the next volume in the series Oxford Twenty-First-Century Approaches to Literature.

Julian Yates is Associate Professor of English and Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. His first book, Error, Misuse, Failure: Object [End Page 144] Lessons from the English Renaissance (2003...

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