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John Michael Archer is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He has written Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance (1993) and Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest Asia, India and Russia in Early Modern English Writing (2002). He also co-edited Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England (1994). Pamela Allen Brown is an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. Her book on women and popular culture, Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Jesting Women in the Dramas of Early Modern Culture , was published in 2002. Her articles on rogue literature, Jonson, and Shakespeare have appeared in various journals, and she is now co-editing a volume of essays (with Peter Parolin) on women players in England before the Restoration. Julie Crawford is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published on John Fletcher, Sir Philip Sidney, and Margaret Cavendish, and she is completing a book on post-Reformation popular literature. Lloyd Davis is Reader in English at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published on cultural studies, Victorian and early modern literature, as well as Guise and Disguise: Rhetoric and Characterization in the English Renaissance . He is the editor of Sexuality and Gender in the English ... log in or subscribe to read full text