Carol A. Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. A first degree in English at Newnham College, Cambridge was followed by an MA in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. She combined a freelance career as a theater director with teaching, educational tourism, and academic editing. She returned to full-time academic research with a Quintin Hogg ... Read morescholarship at the University of Westminster, working on the doctoral thesis that is the basis of this book. She has recently held a British academy research fellowship at the University of Aberdeen, working on seventeenth-century manuscript diaries, and is now a lecturer in drama at Rose Bruford College, Kent. Show Less