Linda McJannet, Professor of English at Bentley College, was educated at Wellesley College and Harvard University. Her work on the East in early modern drama has appeared in journals such as "Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England "and in the collection "Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama" (1998). She is also the author of "The Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions: The Evolution of a Theatrical Code" (1999).