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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJeffrey B. Griswold is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland at College Park, specializing in early modern English literature. His dissertation, “The Political Animal: Early Modern Literature and Human Exceptionalism,” argues that the unique vulnerability of the human species was essential to a previously unexamined strand of Renaissance political thought. This project revisits human exceptionalism through the lessons of posthumanism, considering articulations of shared life that ground the polis in our deficiencies rather than in language or in sovereignty. His work has previously been published in Spenser Studies and the Spenser Review.Judith Haber is professor of English at Tufts University. She is the author of Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), as well as articles and essays on Marlowe, Middleton, Shakespeare, and Webster. She is currently working on a book project tentatively titled, Adoptive Strategies: Imagining Paternity in Early Modern England, which will explore texts by Cavendish and Jonson, in addition to plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare.Cole Jeffrey recently received his PhD from the University of North Texas, where he teaches literature and composition. He is currently working on a book, The Aesthetics of Sin: Beauty and Depravity in Early Modern Literature, which explores the relationship between Reformed theology and Renaissance aesthetics. This book will demonstrate how theological debates about sin and depravity encouraged writers from Shakespeare to Milton to reject traditional aesthetic paradigms and develop new conceptions of beauty and taste that would prove instrumental in the shift from the classical philosophy of beauty to Enlightenment aesthetics.Michael Slater is assistant professor of English at the State University of New York’s College at Brockport, where he works on Renaissance drama, the intersections between literature and the history of science, and allegory. He is currently completing his first book, Forms of Proof: Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution, which argues that the rise of mechanical science in early modernity had a profound impact on both language and literary forms. He has also published articles on Spenser, Donne, and Shakespeare.Thomas Ward is associate professor of English at the US Naval Academy, where he teaches Renaissance literature. His research examines how representations of singing and reciting poetry reflect broader questions and anxieties about textual circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. He has published articles on topics ranging from Irish war cries in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, to loss of voice in Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, to liturgical sound in George Herbert’s The Temple. His current book project discusses media and the lyric genre in the publications of the London stationer Humphrey Moseley, focusing on the works of John Milton, Abraham Cowley, and Edmund Waller. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Renaissance Drama Volume 47, Number 1Spring 2019 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/703106 © 2019 by Northwestern University. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.