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Denise Albanese is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University. She is author of New Science, New World (Duke University Press, 1996). and has published on Francis Bacon, historicity and the early modern period, and recent Shakespeare films as global commodities. She is currently working on early modern mathematics instruction, and on Kenneth Branagh, Anglophilia, and the Americanization of Shakespeare. Philippa Berry is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at King's College. Cambridge. She is the author of Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen (Routledge, 1989) and of Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies (Routledge, 1999), and co-editor of Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion (with Andrew Wernick, Routledge, 1993) and The Texture of Renaissance Knowledge (with Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, forthcoming). Dympna Callaghan is William P. Tolley Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University. Her latest books are Shakespeare Without Women: Representing Gender and Race on the Renaissance Stage (Routledge, 1999) and an edited collection, The Duchess of Malfi Casebook (Macmillan, 2000). Earlier books include Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy (Harvester, 1989), the co-authored volume, The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics ... log in or subscribe to read full text