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Ian W. Archer is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Keble College, Oxford. He is the author of The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London , and of various articles on the history of the early modern metropolis. He is currently working on charity in early modern England, and is the General Editor of the Royal Historical Society Bibliographies on British and Irish History. Emily C. Bartels is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University (New Brunswick) and author of Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe , which won the Roma Gill Prize for the Best Work on Christopher Marlowe in 1993–4. She has also written articles on Shakespeare, representations of the Moor, and early English imperialism, and is currently at work on a book, Before Slavery: English Stories of Africa . Lee Beier was a Lecturer in History at Lancaster University until 1990. Currently he is Professor of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560–1640 . Herbert Berry is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Saskatchewan. He has published many pieces about playhouses in London during Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline times. Lee Bliss is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The World's Perspective: John Webster and the ... log in or subscribe to read full text