by the Institute of Early American History and Culture, and in the English
departments at the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania State University, Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, and the University of Miami–Ohio, where David Bevington,
Kevin Dunn, Deborah Carlin, and Arthur Kinney have been gracious hosts.
I am extremely grateful to the many other friends and colleagues who
have offered their support. Mary Crane has been endlessly available as a men-
tor, friend, and critic. Laura Knoppers, Jim Siemon, Rob Watson, Miriam
Hansen, Dianne Sadoff, Beth Durkee, Linda Meyers, and Mary Bartels have
shared their friendship, intelligence, and encouragement with me all along the
way. The community of the Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury Col-
lege) has given me an inviting occasion to present parts of this book as well as
an extraordinary place every summer to write it, and I am especially grateful
to Jim Maddox, Isobel Armstrong, Margery Sabin, Jonathan Strong, Michael
Armstrong, Lucy Maddox, Jim Sabin, Michael Cadden, Arthur Little, and
Jeri Johnson for their generous interest, support, and love. At Rutgers Univer-
sity, Barry Qualls, Chris Chism, Cheryl Wall, Marianne DeKoven, Richard
Miller, Paul Clemens, Richard Dienst, Leandra Cain, Cheryl Robinson, and
Eileen Faherty have cheered me invaluably along, as have my colleagues in
early modern studies, Ann Baynes Coiro, Jackie Miller, Ron Levao, and Tom
Fulton. My graduate and undergraduate students have helped me think and
rethink Othello, and I am indebted in particular to Colleen Rosenfeld and
Scott Trudell for assistance on the manuscript, to Ed Kranz for the gift of
Trickster Travels, and to Matt Cinotti for great conversations about Titus. I am
grateful too for the work and support of Michael Neill, Karen Kupperman,
Gil Harris, Tom Cartelli, Jyotsna Singh, Eric Griffin, Jonathan Burton, Peter
Erickson, Larry Danson, Shankar Raman, David Riggs, Lena Cowen Orlin,
Garrett Sullivan, and Kathryn Schwarz.
I dedicate this book to my dear friend Emma Smith, who has generously
read and commented on multiple drafts and who, with her inimitable wit and
wisdom, has spurred on this project and its author at the most crucial stages.
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