Ruth Morse is professeur des universites at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne-Cite. Her books include two edited volumes, Shakespeare, les francais, les France (2008) and a volume of Great Shakespeareans; the monograph Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Reality, and Representation (1991), and she is currently completing Imagined Histories: Fictions of the Past from Beowulf to Shakespeare.