Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity and the Good - Hardcover

Kent Lehnhof is professor of English at Chapman University. He is author of some two dozen articles on early modern literature and culture and is co-editor (along with Moshe Gold and Sandor Goodhart) of the essay collection Of Levinas and Shakespeare: "To See Another Thus" (2018). His articles have appeared in such journals as Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, English Literary Renaissance, ELH, SEL, Modern Philology, and Criticism. He is currently working on a book-length study of vocality and ethics in Shakespeare's late plays.

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or co-author of five books, including Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (2018), Thinking with Shakespeare (2015), and Citizen-Saints (2012). She has edited or co-edited many volumes and special issues, including Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook (with Donovan Sherman), and Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good (with Kent Lehnhof and Carolyn Sale), Shakespeare and Hospitality (with David Goldstein), and Face to Face with Shakespeare (with Matthew Smith). She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Carolyn Sale is associate professor of English at the University of Alberta. Her work has appeared in journals including ELH, Renaissance Drama, and Shakespeare Quarterly, as well as various essay collections including The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy (2018), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (2017), Shakespeare and Judgment (2016), The History of British Women's Writing, Volume 1, 1500-1610 (2010), and The Law in Shakespeare (2007). She is completing the book manuscript 'The Literary Commons: The Common Law and the Writer in Early Modern England, 1528-1628'. Earlier work in the phenomenology of Shakespeare's theatre includes "Eating Air, Feeling Smells: Hamlet's Theory of Performance," reprinted in Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Hamlet (2009).