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  • Contributors

JOHN F. ANDREWS, who edited Shakespeare Quarterly between 1974 and 1985, is president of the Shakespeare Guild and the author of two three-volume Scribners sets about the playwright's world, work, and influence. For links to some of his reflections on Shakespeare, Lincoln, and the most dramatic moment in American history, including articles in The Altantic and the New York Times, visit http://www.shakesguild.org/Andrews.html.

DAVID BEVINGTON is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. Along with his editions of Shakespeare and other Renaissance and medieval dramatists, his studies include From "Mankind" to Marlowe; Tudor Drama and Politics; Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture; Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience; This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now; Shakespeare and Biography; and Murder Most Foul: Hamlet through the Ages.

KELSEY FLYNN has a PhD in early modern European history and specializes in Stuart England and the early modern Atlantic world. Her current book project explores the relationship between information management and English empire building in the early seventeenth century.

ALAN GALEY is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, and Director of the collaborative graduate program in Book History and Print Culture. He is the author of The Shakespearean Archive: Experiments in New Media from the Renaissance to Postmodernity. His articles have appeared in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Book History, and Literary and Linguistic Computing, and in several edited collections. For details see individual.utoronto.ca/alangaley/.

KENNETH GROSS is the author of Spenserian Poetics: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Magic; The Dream of the Moving Statue; Shakespeare's Noise; Shylock is Shakespeare; and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life, which won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. His essays take up topics ranging from Renaissance and modern lyric poetry to the nature of theater and the relationship [End Page 112] of poetry and the visual arts. He is the Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

ROBERT HORNBACK is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA. Author of The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare, he has published widely on Renaissance clowns, fools, and comedy in numerous journals, including Shakespeare Studies, Shakespearean International Yearbook, Studies in English Literature, English Literary Renaissance, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Early Theatre, Comparative Drama, and Renaissance and Reformation, as well as in book collections such as The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature; A Companion to Tudor Literature; Othello: The State of Play; and 1 Henry IV: A Critical Guide. He is currently at work on a second book on the role of early blackface fool traditions in promoting premodern racism.

ERIC M. JOHNSON is Director of Digital Access at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where he heads the Digital Media and Publications division. His team manages the Folger's various digital initiatives and oversees Shakespeare Quarterly and the Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare's complete works. He holds an MA in English and a BA in history, and is a veteran of the US Marine Corps.

JUSTIN KOLB is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The American University in Cairo. His book-in-progress is Spongy Natures: Inhuman Life in Ben Jonson's London.

ALYSIA KOLENTSIS is Assistant Professor of English at St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on early modern drama and poetry, with a particular focus on Shakespeare and language. She has recently published essays in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry; the Shakespeare Association of America volume Shakespeare in Our Time; and Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture.

SONIA MASSAI is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. She has published widely on the history of the transmission of Shakespeare on the stage and on the page. Her publications include her book on Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor; collections of essays on Shakespeare and Textual Studies and on World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance; and...

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