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James C.Bulman is Professor of English and Dean of the College at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania. General editor of the Shakespeare in Performance series for Manchester University Press, he has written books on the stage history of The Merchant of Venice (1991) and The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy (1985), and co-edited volumes on Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan (1986) and Shakespeare on Television (1988). He is currently editing Henry IV, Part Two for the new Arden Shakespeare (Routledge). Anthony B.Dawson, Professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia, has written three books: Indirections: Shakespeare and the Art of Illusion (1978), Watching Shakespeare (1988), and, most recently, Hamlet (1995) for the Manchester Shakespeare in Performance series. He has also published a number of articles relating to Shakespeare and literary and performance theory, and is currently preparing the New Mermaid edition of Marlowe's Tamburlaine I and II. Juliet Dusinberre is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Her book on Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (1975), which initiated debates on the boy actor and gender in Shakespeare's theatre, appears in 1995 in a new edition, alongside a Japanese-language edition. She has published essays on different aspects of Shakespeare and performance in Shakespeare Survey and Studies in the Literaiy Imagination, and is currently editing As You Like It for the new Arden Shakespeare (Routledge). Barbara Hodgdon, Ellis and Nelle Levitt Professor of English at Drake University, Iowa, is the author of The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History (1991) and Henry IV, Part Two (1993) for the Manchester Shakespeare in Performance series. She is currently completing a book on performances called Restaging Shakespeare's Cultural Capital: Women, Queens, Spectatorship, and, in addition, is editing The Taming of the Shrew for the new Arden Shakespeare (Routledge). Dennis Kennedy moved in 1995 from the University of Pittsburgh to Trinity College, Dublin, where he occupies the Samuel Beckett Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies. His books include Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance (1993), Foreign Shakespeare (1993), and
Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre (1985), which won the George Freedley Award for theatre history. General editor of Pittsburgh Studies in Theatre and Culture, he is also a playwright and professional dramaturg. Richard Paul Knowles is Chair of the Drama Department at the University of Guelph, Ontario. He has published essays on Shakespeare and on Canadian theatre in a variety of books and periodicals, and he writes and directs for the professional theatre in Canada. Currently he is at work on a book entitled The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning: Contemporary Canadian Dramaturgies. Douglas Lanier, Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, has published articles on Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson, and Milton, and has recently completed a book entitled “Better Markes”: Ben jonson and the Institution of Authorship. In addition to a book-length study of literary pleasure in the Renaissance, he is currently writing about representations of Shakespeare and Shakespeareana in contemporary popular culture. Cary M.Mazer is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Theatre Arts Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Shakespeare Refashioned: Elizabethan Plays on Edwardian Stages (1981), and various articles on Shakespeare in performance, Shakespearean production history, and Victorian and Edwardian theatre. A former officer of the American Society for Theatre Research, he is also a theatre critic and dramaturg. Laurie E.Osborne, Associate Professor of English at Colby College, Maine, has published Twelfe Night, or what you will (F 1623) for the Shakespearean Originals series (Harvester 1995), and her book on The Textual Erotics of “Twelfth Night”: Cultural History and the Performance Edition is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in the series on Theatre History and Culture. She has also published essays on Shakespearean film and the Renaissance female audience. Denis Salter, Associate Professor in English and Theatre at McGill University, has published widely on Canadian/Québécois theatre, Victorian theatre history, Shakespeare in performance, and postcolonial history. A past president of the Association for Canadian Theatre History/ Association d’histoire theatre au Canada, he is currently researching key words in Canadian theatre historiography, with an emphasis on Shakespeare and the idea of nation. W.B.Worthen, Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University, is the author of The Idea of the Actor: Drama and the Ethics of Performance (1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theatre (1992), and a variety of articles on modern drama, dramatic and performance theory, and Shakespearean performance. The editor of two drama anthologies for Harcourt Brace and past editor of Theatre Journal, he is currently writing a book with the tentative title Shakespeare, Authority, and Performance.
