Coppelia Kahn is Professor of English, Emerita, at Brown University, Rhode Island. She has published widely on feminist theory, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and Shakespeare's place in American culture. She is author of Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (1981) and Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women (1997). She also co-edited Making A Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism (with Gayle Green, 1985).