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The argument about poverty and hunger is completely convincing, and the breadth of knowledge across languages, cultures, and theatrical conditions is breathtaking. --Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania Robert Henke's transnational, interdisciplinary study offers a perceptive and illuminating counterpoint between texts and contexts, hunger and gluttony, the England of Shakespeare and the Italy of Ruzante, between a literary approach and a historical one, and above all between actors as beggars, soliciting donations, and beggars as actors, performing their poverty. --Peter Burke, author, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

Robert Henke s transnational, interdisciplinary study offers a perceptive and illuminating counterpoint between texts and contexts, hunger and gluttony, the England of Shakespeare and the Italy of Ruzante, between a literary approach and a historical one, and above all between actors as beggars, soliciting donations, and beggars as actors, performing their poverty. Peter Burke, author, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

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Robert Henke is professor of drama and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare’s Late Plays and Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell’Arte. He coedited Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater and Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater. Codirector of the Prison Education Project at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center and Washington University, he lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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