ABSTRACT

Leeds Barroll is Presidential Research Professor at the University of Maryland (Baltimore).

Editor of Shakespeare Studies, he is also the author of numerous books and articles on Renaissance drama and literature. His Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare’s Theatre (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991) was awarded the Bernard Hewitt Prize by the American Society for Theatre Research in 1992. He has most recently published articles on the Jacobean regulation of drama, and he is presently completing a book on the Jacobean court masque.