Lawrence G. Manley

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Yale Univeresity.Has written about the poetry, prose, and drama of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, with a particular emphasis on literature and society, theater history and performance studies, intellectual history, and the classical foundations of the English literary and critical traditions. He is the authorof Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (1995) and Convention, 1500-1750 (1980), and the editor of London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology (1986). He has contributed to The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, the Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Drama, and the forthcoming Shakespeare Encyclopedia.  His current projects include The Cambridge Companion to London in English Literature and a book (with Sally-Beth MacLean) on Lord Strange’s Men and their plays