Shakespearean Educations: Power, Citizenship, and Performance

Coppélia Kahn is professor of English at Brown University. She is the author of Man’s Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (University of California Press, 1981), Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Routledge, 1997), and coeditor of Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism (Routledge, 1985). She was president of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2008-9.

Heather S. Nathans is associate professor of theatre at the University of Maryland, where she is also associate chair of theatre and an acting associate dean for the College of Arts and Humanities. Her publications include Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1781-1861 (Cambridge University Press, 2009. Nathans is the President of the American Theatre and Drama Society.

Mimi Godfrey is managing editor of S hakespeare Quarterly, published by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. She has written on Old and Middle English literature and Chaucer, including essays published in Exemplaria, Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language.