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  • Contributors

Richard Hillman is a Professor at Université François-Rabelais, Tours (English and Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance—CNRS), with a particular interest in early modern theater. He has published numerous articles and several monographs, most recently Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage (Macmillan, 1997) and Shakespeare, Marlowe and the Politics of France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). He has also translated four French political tragedies, with introductions and notes: The Tragic History of La Pucelle of Domrémy, Otherwise Known as The Maid of Orléans, by Fronton Du Duc, Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 39 (Ottawa: Dovehouse, 2005); The Tragedy of the Late Admiral Coligny, by François de Chantelouve, with The Guisiade, by Pierre Matthieu, CRPT 40 (Dovehouse, 2005); and Coriolan, by Alexandre Hardy (forthcoming). Further work is forthcoming on English theater's French connections.

Maurice Hunt, Research Professor of English at Baylor University, recently published Shakespeare's "As You Like It": Late Elizabethan Culture and Literary Representation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He has an article titled "Bertram, The 3rd Earl of Southampton, and Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well: A Speculative Psychosexual Biography" forthcoming in Exemplaria: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He continues to edit Cymbeline for the New Variorum Shakespeare Series sponsored by the MLA.

David M. Bergeron, Professor of English, University of Kansas, has published extensively on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, civic pageantry, and the Stuart royal family. His latest book is Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570–1640 (Ashgate, 2006).

Ann Caroline Christensen, Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston, is the author of several articles on drama by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Heywood, and others; her most recent essay, " 'Absent, weak, or unserviceable': The East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman's Honest Wife" appears in Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700, ed. Barbara Sebek and Stephen Deng (Palgrave, 2008). She is a contributor to the forum on women and mercantilism in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Early Modern [End Page 531] Women and is working on a study tentatively titled " 'Separation Scenes': Travel and Household Dissolution in Early Modern English Drama."

Elizabeth Savage teaches English Literature at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Her current book project is tentatively titled "Nursery of the Nation: Mothers, Midwives and National Identity on the Eighteenth-Century Comedic Stage." [End Page 532]

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