Abstract
Heather James is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. She is author of Shakespeare's Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire (1997) and numerous essays on such topics as the politics of sympathy, absolutist jests and games, what Shakespeare's heroines want, and the political status of Ovid in the early modern period. She is also coeditor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature. Her essay “Royal Jokes and Sovereign Mystery in Castiglione and Marguerite de Navarre” appeared in the December 2003 issue of MLQ.
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