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John Bull is Professor of Film and Drama at the University of Reading. He has directed a wide variety of classic and modern plays, including two of his own. His publications include New British Political Dramatists, Stage Right: Crisis and Recovery in British Contemporary Mainstream Drama and Vanbrughh and Farquhar , and he is currently working on a six-volume project, British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II. He is a past chair of the Standing Committee of University Drama Departments. J. Douglas Canfield is Regents' Professor of English and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Arizona. He specializes in both English literature of the Restoration and early eighteenth century and comparative literature of the Southwest Borderlands. He is currently on a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write Tricksters and the Nation: On the Ideology of Revolution Comedy. Paul D. Cannan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He has published articles on seventeenth-century drama and dramatic criticism in the Review of English Studies, Studies in Philology and Philological Quarterly. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the emergence of an institution of criticism in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Mita Choudhury teaches cultural and media studies in the School of Literature, ... log in or subscribe to read full text