Book Reviews

Bradin Cormack is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is author of A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law, 1509-1625 and, with Carla Mazzio, co-author of the analytical catalogue Book Use, Book Theory. He is completing three related books: on action in Shakespeare’s drama; on grammar and logic in Shakespeare’s sonnets; and on exemplary thinking in the long sixteenth century.

Penelope Geng is Associate Professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. She works at the intersection of law and literature, disability studies, and performance. She is the author of Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England (Toronto, 2021), and of articles and chapters on Shakespeare and magistracy, staging disability in Shakespearean performance, Bacon’s legal aphorisms, and historical costuming by costumers of color as a practice of political resistance. Currently, she is writing a second monograph provisionally titled “Disabled by Law,” co-editing a special issue on “Disability and Racial Capitalism” with Andrew Bozio, and editing Shakespeare’s Richard II for Cambridge Shakespeare Editions.