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Acknowledgments
I gratefully acknowledge the help and support through many years of fellow and sister Shakespeareans: Bob Bennetta, friend and jazz pianist extraordinaire of Charlottesville, who had the good fortune of studying Shakespeare with Marguerite Young at Fordham; John G. Conover, a friend of forty years and a most excellent theater administrator and actor; John L. Lanham, M.D., a good and funny friend and a stalwart playgoing companion in trips up to the American Shakespeare Theatre in Staunton; Thomas and Margaret Merriam of Basingstoke (United Kingdom) for their thirty years of friendship, camaraderie, and indeed, true inspiration; Steven Shaviro, brilliant cultural studies chair-holder at Wayne State University, for being my unswerving friend but also for being one of the most down-to-the-ground, decent people I have ever known; Lloyd T. Smith Jr., his wife Ashlin Smith, and their learned son Garrett Smith, all of Charlottesville, for the sheer joy of their company but especially for the all-too-infrequent experience of discussing Shakespeare with them; Comrade Alan G. Nasser, dear and beloved friend despite the fact that he is all too obviously the world’s greatest expert on food, jazz, and