Paul Cefalu is Associate Professor of English at Lafayette College, Easton, USA. He is the author of Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature, Revisionist Shakespeare: Transitional Ideologies in Texts and Contexts and English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory: Sublime Objects of Theology. His essays have appeared in PMLA, ELH, Milton Studies, and The Journal of the Medical Humanities. He is an Associate Editor of Literature and Theology. Bryan Reynolds is Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA, and Artistic Director of the Amsterdam-based Transversal Theater Company. He is the author of Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida (2009), Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations (2006), Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future (2003), and Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (2002). He is co-editor of Critical Responses to Kiran Desai (2009), Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage (2005), and Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital (2000).
The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies : Tarrying with the Subjunctive