About the Author Elaine McGirr is a senior lecturer in the departments of Drama and English at Royal Holloway, University of London. She joined Royal Holloway from the University of Hertfordshire after completing a PhD degree at Washington University in St. Louis. She was a research fellow at the Huntington Library in 2001. Her current interdisciplinary appointment reflects her methodology and training: her first degrees are in literature and history, and her current work in drama is an extension of earlier work in cultural studies. She is the author of Eighteenth Century Characters (2007) and has also published articles on Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, the novels of Samuel Richardson, early modern masculinity, the 1745 Jacobite rebellion on stage, and the works and Character of Colley Cibber.