Jeffrey H. Richards is the author of Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607 1789 (1991), and Mercy Otis Warren (1995), and has edited three other books. He has published articles in Early American Literature, William and Mary Quarterly, and other journals and collections. He has taught at the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and is currently Professor of English at Old Dominion University.