The Author: Maurice Hunt, Professor of English at Baylor University, is also the author of Shakespeare's Romance of the Word (1990), Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and Other Late Romances (1992), 'The Winter's Tale': Critical Essays (1995), and 53 articles on the plays of Shakespeare and other English Renaissance dramatists. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.