Professor Emeritus of English Joel Altman received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has taught Renaissance literature and drama at Berkeley, directed productions of Shakespeare, and published articles on Shakespeare, Spenser, and Renaissance rhetoric. Professor Altman is the author of The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and the Development of Elizabethan Drama and The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood. He is currently researching drama and visual culture in the early modern period.