SUSAN BRUCE is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK. She has taught at the universities of Florence, Geneva and St Andrews, and is the editor of "Three Early Modern Utopias" (1997) and "Shakespeare: King Lear" (1997). VALERIA WAGNER is "maitre d'enseignement et recherche" at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she teaches in the Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature programmes. Her publications include "Literatura y vida cotidiana. Ficcion e imaginario en las Americas" (2005) and "Bound to Act: Models of Action, Dramas of Inaction" (1999).