LLOYD EDWARD KERMODE is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. He edited Three Renaissance Usury Plays for the Revels Companion series (2009) and coedited Tudor Drama before Shakespeare (2004) and the collection “Space and Place in Early Modern Drama” for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013). He is the author of Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama (2009), and of a number of essays on cultural identity in literature and on the theory and experience of space in early modern England.