Rebecca Bushnell is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written many essays on early modern politics and social control in Renaissance drama, and she is the author of Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance (1990). Her most recent book is A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice(1996). She is currently engaged in a work-in- progress on sixteenth and seventeenth-century gardening literature.