The Book of The Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England

Contributors

Contributors Peter Berek is professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He has published widely on early modern English drama in journals such as Renaissance Quarterly, Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, Renaissance Drama, and Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama. Douglas A. Brooks is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University and editor of ShakespeareYearbook. He is the author of From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and editor of a collection of essays, Parenting and Printing in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005). Brooks has published in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, English Literary Renaissance, Philological Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, Studies in English Literature, and Poetics Today. Cyndia Susan Clegg is Distinguished Professor of English at Pepperdine University. Among many other publications, she is the author of “History of the Book: An Undisciplined Discipline?” Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001): 221–45; “Liberty, License, and Authority: Press Censorship and Shakespeare,” in Companion to Shakespeare, ed. David Scott Kastan (Blackwell, 1998), 464–85; and two books on early modern censorship, Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (Cambridge, 2000) and Press Censorship in Jacobean England (Cambridge , 2002). Alan B. Farmer is assistant professor of English at Ohio State University. He has published widely on drama and early modern print culture in Shakespeare Quarterly, The Shakespearean InternationalYearbook, vol. 2, Where AreWe Now in Shakespearean Studies? (Ashgate, 2002), and Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama. He is co-editor (with Adam Zucker) of Localizing Caroline Drama, 1625–1642 (Palgrave, forthcoming). Zachary Lesser is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois , Urbana. He is the author of Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication : Readings in the English Book Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2004), as well as articles on early modern drama and print culture in Shakespeare Quarterly , ELH, English Literary Renaissance, and elsewhere. 229 Lucy Munro is lecturer in English at Keele University, Staffordshire. She is the author of Children of the Queen’s Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She has edited The Fleer for Globe Quartos (2005), and is the author of “Early Modern Drama and the Repertory Approach,” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 42 (2003): 1–33; and “The Knight of the Burning Pestle and Generic Experimentation,” in Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Had- field, and Garret A. Sullivan (Oxford University Press, 2005). Elizabeth Sauer is professor of English at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, where she holds a Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence . She is author of “Paper-contestations” and Textual Communities in England , 1640–1675 (University of Toronto Press, 2005), and Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton’s Epics (McGill–Queen’s University Press, 1996). Sauer has also coedited numerous collections of essays, including Reading Early Modern Women, with Helen Ostovich (Routledge, 2004), and Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies, with Jennifer Andersen (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). She is editing Milton and Toleration with Sharon Achinstein (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Lauren Shohet is associate professor of English at Villanova University. She is the author of Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2006). She has also published articles on Shakespeare, Milton, Jonson, and Pullman in Milton Studies, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Shakespeare Studies, and Texas Studies in Language and Literature, among other journals. Marta Straznicky is associate professor of English at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She is author of Privacy, Playreading, and Women’s Closet Drama, 1550–1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). She has published on early modern closet drama in ELH, English Literary Renaissance, and Criticism and contributed the chapter “Closet Drama” to Companion to Renaissance Drama, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (Blackwell, 2002). 230 contributors ...