About the author

Pamela Allen Brown is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut . Her specialties include early modern popular comedy, Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean English drama; theatrical interactions between Italy and England, racialization and stage types, the history of the earliest actresses, and Renaissance laughter, jokes, fools, and folly. She has taught Shakespeare, poetry, drama, creative writing, and other courses since 1998. A poet and playwright, she has poems published or forthcoming in Mojave River Review, Public, Epiphany, New Square, P/rose, The Sonnets Remixed, Poetry Distillery, and Visual Verse. Her one-act plays have been performed at St. Marks Poetry Project, LaMama e.t.c. (The Fit in the Choir), and the Boston Director’s Lab (The Ice House). She has also directed a short film staging Isabella Andreini’s The Amorous Debate on Arms and Letters.