Notes on the Contributors

Gabriel Egan is a Reader in Shakespeare Studies at and a co-editor of the journals Shakespeare and Theatre Notebook. His books include Shakespeare and Marx (2004; Turkish translation 2006), Green Shakespeare (2006), and the Edinburgh Critical Guide to Shakespeare (2007). He writes the ‘Shakespeare: Editions and Textual Studies’ section for the Year’s Work in English Studies and is currently working on a book about the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare in the twentieth century.

William Engel is an Associate Professor of English at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. In addition to contributing chapters in collections such as The Shakespeare Yearbook (2007), he is the author of several books on intellectual history, including Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), Death and Drama in Renaissance England (Oxford University Press, 2002), and Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare (Ashgate, 2009).

Robert C. Evans, who has taught at Auburn University, Montgomery since 1982, received his PhD from Princeton University in 1984. At AUM he has been selected as Distinguished Research Professor, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Uni- versity Alumni Professor. The recipient of grants from the ACLS, the NEH, the Mellon Foundation and the UCLA Center for Renaissance Studies and from the Beinecke, Folger, Huntington and Newberry Libraries, he has also won various teaching awards. He is the author of numerous articles and the author or editor of over twenty books.

Stuart Hampton-Reeves is a Professor of Research-informed Teaching at the University of Central . He is the author of The Shakespeare Handbooks: Measure for Measure (Palgrave, 2007) and, with Carol Chillington Rutter, Shakespeare in Performance: the ‘Henry VI’ Plays (Manchester University Press, 2007).

Andrew Hiscock is a Professor of English at , Wales. He has published widely on early modern literature and his most recent monograph is entitled The Uses of this World: Thinking Space in Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cary and Jonson. He is series co-editor for the Continuum Renaissance Drama, edited the MHRA’s 2008 Yearbook of English Studies devoted to Tudor literature and co-edited Palgrave’s Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists. He is also Co-Editor for the journal English (OUP).

Lisa Hopkins is a Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co- editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association. Her pub- lications include The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage (Ashgate, 2008), Shakespeare on the Edge: Border-crossing in the Tragedies and the Henriad (Ashgate, 2005) and Beginning Shakespeare (Manchester University Press, 2005).

Ros King is a Professor of English Studies at the University of Southampton, as well as a theatre director and dramaturge. She is the editor of a range of Shakespearean and pre-Shakespearean play texts, and co-editor of the collection of essays, Shakespeare and War. Her other books include The Works of Richard Edwards: Politics, Poetry and Performance in Sixteenth-Century England, Cymbeline: Constructions of Britain, and The Winter’s Tale.

Stephen Longstaffe is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of . He has published an edition of the Elizabethan history play The Life and Death of Jack Straw and on topics including Marlowe in performance, Bakhtin and Shakespeare, editing Shakespeare, clowning, and various aspects of early modern radical traditions. He is currently working again on clowning and the politics of early modern performance, and in his spare time plays around with his local comedy/drama improvisation group.

Willy Maley is a Professor of Renaissance Studies at Glasgow University. He is author of A Spenser Chronology (1994), Salvaging Spenser (1997), and Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature (2003), and editor of Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534–1660 (1993), Postcolonial Criticism (1997), A View of the Present State of Ireland (1997), British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002), Shakespeare and Scotland (2004), and Spheres of Influ- ence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas (2007).

Kirk Melnikoff is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His essays have appeared in Mosaic, Studies in Philology and The Library, and he is editor of Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer. He is currently finishing a book project on Elizabethan publishing practices.

Mark Robson teaches at the . He is the author of Stephen Greenblatt (2007) and The Sense of Early Modern Writing: Rhetoric, Poetics, Aesthetics (2006), co-author of Language in Theory (2005), editor of Hester Pulter, Poems (forthcoming) and Jacques Ranciere: Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy (2005) and co- editor of The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (2000). He is currently completing (with James Loxley), Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative (forthcoming). Peter Sillitoe studied English literature at the Bangor University, Wales, before completing a PhD on Renaissance court entertainments at the University of Sheffield. He has taught at Sheffield, De Montfort, and Wolverhampton uni- versities and is currently completing a monograph entitled Defining Elite Space in Early Stuart England.

Adrian Streete is a Lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the co- editor of Refiguring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern Literature (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2005) and has published essays in journals such as The Review of English Studies, Textual Practice and Literature and History. His book Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

David Webb is currently teaching for the and is involved in research projects in the Department of Education, Oxford University. He taught Renaissance literature and was responsible for English for intending primary and secondary teachers at St Martin’s College, Lancaster (now the University of Cumbria). He has published on Marlowe, Shakespeare and educational topics, and was winner of the Calvin Hoffman prize for publication on Marlowe.