Dr. Jayne Elisabeth Archer is lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English Literature, Aberystwyth University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, where she spent four years as AHRC postdoctoral Research Fellow on the John Nichols Project. She is co-editor of The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and has published articles on Elizabethan and Jacobean masques, early modern women's receipt books, and alchemy in early modern literature. She is currently working on a book-length study of the relationship between housewifery and natural philosophy in early modern literature.

Dr. Elizabeth Clarke is Reader in English at the University of Warwick. She is author of Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1997) and has just finished a study in versions of the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. She was director of the Perdita Project for early modern women's manuscripts and is currently directing a British Academy-funded project on the life-writing of Elizabeth Isham (1608-1654).
Dr. Elizabeth Goldring was a Research Fellow in the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and is now an Associate Fellow of both the Centre and Warwick's History of Art Department. She is co-editor of two essay collections - The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance (Ashgate, 2002) - and associate general editor of Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2004). Other recent publications include articles in The British Art Journal, The Burlington Magazine, and ELR: English Literary Renaissance. She was Consultant to English Heritage for the exhibition 'Queen and Castle: Robert Dudley's Kenilworth', which opened in 2006.

Contributors to the whole edition:

Simon Adams, Strathclyde University
Jayne Elisabeth Archer, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Richard Ashdowne
Margaret Beckett, retired
Jane Belfield
Martin Brooke, Sherborne School, Dorset
Elizabeth Clarke, University of Warwick
Patrick Collinson, Emeritus, University of Cambridge
Marie-Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland, Galway
David J. Crankshaw, King's College London
H. Neville Davies, formerly University of Birmingham
Ingrid de Smet, University of Warwick
Faith Eales, University of Warwick
Alice Eardley, University of Warwick
Janet Fairweather, formerly University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Goldring, University of Warwick
Lawrence Green, University of Warwick
Paul E. J. Hammer, University of St. Andrews
Gabriel Heaton , Sotheby's
Felicity Henderson, Royal Society of London
Emma Herdman, University of Oxford
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Jill Husselby, freelance historian
Sarah Knight, University of Leicester
William Leahy, Brunel University
Elisabeth Leedham-Green, University of Cambridge
Margaret Midgley, University of Warwick
David K. Money, University of Cambridge
Victoria Moul, University of Oxford
Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby, York University, Toronto
David Parrott, University of Oxford
Julian Pooley, University of Leicester
Lynn Robson, University of Oxford
Sarah Ross, Massey University, New Zealand
Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick
Alexander Samson, University College, London
Jason Scott-Warren, University of Cambridge
Helen Spurling, University of Cambridge
Dana F. Sutton, University of California at Irvine
Michael Ullyot, University of Calgary
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, University of Oxford
Gillian White, freelance lecturer
Philip Withington, University of Leeds
Matthew Woodcock, University of East Anglia

"Quentin Skinner's Forensic Shakespeare, which began as a series of lectures about rhetorical invention, makes the clear and convincing case that rhetorical manuals, and especially those portions concerned with courtroom speeches, deserve to be considered alongside Holinshed's Chronicles and Ovid's Metamorphoses as one of Shakespeare's most common sources for both language and dramaturgy." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

Dr. Jayne Elisabeth Archer is lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English Literature, Aberystwyth University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, where she spent four years as AHRC postdoctoral Research Fellow on the John Nichols Project. She is co-editor of The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and has published articles on Elizabethan and Jacobean masques, early modern women's receipt books, and alchemy in early modern literature. She is currently working on a book-length study of the relationship between housewifery and natural philosophy in early modern literature.

Dr. Elizabeth Clarke is Reader in English at the University of Warwick. She is author of Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1997) and has just finished a study in versions of the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. She was director of the Perdita Project for early modern women's manuscripts and is currently directing a British Academy-funded project on the life-writing of Elizabeth Isham (1608-1654).
Dr. Elizabeth Goldring was a Research Fellow in the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and is now an Associate Fellow of both the Centre and Warwick's History of Art Department. She is co-editor of two essay collections - The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance (Ashgate, 2002) - and associate general editor of Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2004). Other recent publications include articles in The British Art Journal, The Burlington Magazine, and ELR: English Literary Renaissance. She was Consultant to English Heritage for the exhibition 'Queen and Castle: Robert Dudley's Kenilworth', which opened in 2006.

Contributors to the whole edition:

Simon Adams, Strathclyde University
Jayne Elisabeth Archer, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Richard Ashdowne
Margaret Beckett, retired
Jane Belfield
Martin Brooke, Sherborne School, Dorset
Elizabeth Clarke, University of Warwick
Patrick Collinson, Emeritus, University of Cambridge
Marie-Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland, Galway
David J. Crankshaw, King's College London
H. Neville Davies, formerly University of Birmingham
Ingrid de Smet, University of Warwick
Faith Eales, University of Warwick
Alice Eardley, University of Warwick
Janet Fairweather, formerly University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Goldring, University of Warwick
Lawrence Green, University of Warwick
Paul E. J. Hammer, University of St. Andrews
Gabriel Heaton , Sotheby's
Felicity Henderson, Royal Society of London
Emma Herdman, University of Oxford
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Jill Husselby, freelance historian
Sarah Knight, University of Leicester
William Leahy, Brunel University
Elisabeth Leedham-Green, University of Cambridge
Margaret Midgley, University of Warwick
David K. Money, University of Cambridge
Victoria Moul, University of Oxford
Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby, York University, Toronto
David Parrott, University of Oxford
Julian Pooley, University of Leicester
Lynn Robson, University of Oxford
Sarah Ross, Massey University, New Zealand
Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick
Alexander Samson, University College, London
Jason Scott-Warren, University of Cambridge
Helen Spurling, University of Cambridge
Dana F. Sutton, University of California at Irvine
Michael Ullyot, University of Calgary
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, University of Oxford
Gillian White, freelance lecturer
Philip Withington, University of Leeds
Matthew Woodcock, University of East Anglia

"Quentin Skinner's Forensic Shakespeare, which began as a series of lectures about rhetorical invention, makes the clear and convincing case that rhetorical manuals, and especially those portions concerned with courtroom speeches, deserve to be considered alongside Holinshed's Chronicles and Ovid's Metamorphoses as one of Shakespeare's most common sources for both language and dramaturgy." -- Los Angeles Review of Books