Lars Engle (Ph.D. Yale) is James G. Watson Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, where he has chaired English, directed Honors, and won the University Outstanding Teacher Award and the College Excellence in Teaching Prize. He also teaches at Bread Loaf, held a Mellon Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies at Virginia, and won the Heyman Prize for Outstanding Work in the Humanities at Yale. A former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America, he is the author of Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time and, with Eric Rasmussen, of Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries.