Early Modern Improvisations: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics.

Katherine Scheil, Professor of English, University of Minnesota, writes on Shakespeare and women, including Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway (2018), and She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (2012). She is finishing a book on the history of women in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Linda Shenk, Professor of English, Iowa State University, conducts transdisciplinary research on collaborative storytelling--from Elizabethan drama, diplomacy, and court culture to co-creating climate resilience among researchers and communities. She has published in ELR; WIREs Climate Change; Environmental Humanities; and Explorations in Renaissance Culture.