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  • Contributors

Rebecca Ann Bach, Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the author of Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580–1640 (2001) and Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality (2007).

Paula Blank is Professor of English at the College of William & Mary. Her most recent book is Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man (2006).

Katherine Duncan-Jones has edited the Arden Shakespeare edition of the Sonnets (1997) and, with H. R. Woudhuysen, Shakespeare’s Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and the Shorter Poems (2007). Her biography, Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from His Life, was published in 2001. She has written many theater reviews for the Times Literary Supplement.

R. Carter Hailey teaches medieval and early modern literature at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, designed and built the Hailey’s COMET portable optical collator, and is working on a book, On Paper.

Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2d ed., forthcoming, 2007) and author of several books on early modern drama, including most recently Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598–1642 (2007).

MacDonald P. Jackson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland. His most recent book is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of The Works of John Webster (2007), coedited with David Gunby and David Carnegie.

Sonia Massai is a Lecturer in English at King’s College London. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007) and the editor of World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance (2005).

Claire McEachern is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her most recent publication is the Arden3 edition [End Page 421] of Much Ado about Nothing (2006). Other publications include the Longman Cultural Edition of King Lear (2004) and the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (2003).

Madhavi Menon is Assistant Professor of Literature at American University and author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (2004). She is currently finishing a book titled Unhistorical Shakespeare: Studies in Homo-History.

Heather S. Nathans is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Maryland, where she is also the Associate Director of the David C.Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora.

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. His most recent books are Imagining Shakespeare (2003) and The Authentic Shakespeare (2002). He is the general editor, with A. R. Braunmuller, of the new Pelican Shakespeare.

William L. Pressly, Professor of Art History at the University of Maryland, has published extensively on British art, including A Catalogue of Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library: “As Imagination Bodies Forth” and The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare’s “Fine Frenzy” in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Art, to be published by the University of Delaware Press.

Nicholas F. Radel is Professor of English at Furman University in South Carolina. He is coeditor of The Puritan Origins of American Sex and has written articles on early modern drama and sexuality for journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in English, and Renaissance Drama.

William W. E. Slights, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Saskatchewan, is the author of Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (2001) and The Heart in the Age of Shakespeare (forthcoming).

Evelyn Tribble is Donald Collie Chair at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Brian Vickers is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, London University; a Fellow of the British Academy; and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is General Editor of the Oxford University Press Complete Works of John Ford and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Authors Francis Bacon. His books include The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose (1968, 2002), Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels (1993), and “Counterfeiting” Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford’s “Funerall Elegye” (2002).

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