Jonathan Hart is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has published nine books with Palgrave Macmillan, most recently, Literature, Theory, History (2011); Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2011); and Shakespeare: Poetry, History and Culture (2009). He is also a poet and his most recent works are Dreamwork (2010) and Musing (2011), a book of sonnets. He has held visiting appointments at Toronto, Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, and the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III).