Robert Henke is professor of drama and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare’s Late Plays and Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell’Arte. He coedited Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater and Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater. Codirector of the Prison Education Project at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center and Washington University, he lives in St. Louis, Missouri.