Edition: Friar Bacon and Friar BungayFriar Bacon and Friar Bungay: Bibliography

Editions Collated

Early Publications

Early publications are listed in chronological order.
Greene, Robert. The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. London: Adam Islip, 1594. STC 12267. ESTC S105968.
Greene, Robert. The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. London: Elizabeth Allde, 1630. STC 12268. ESTC S103422.
Greene, Robert. The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. London: Jean Bell, 1655. Wing G1828. ESTC R23419.

Scholarly Editions

Scholarly Editions are listed in chronological order.
Collier, John Payne, ed. A Select Collection of Old Plays. 12 vols. London, 1825.
Dyce, Alexander, ed. The Dramatic Works of Robert Greene. 2 vols. London, 1831.
Dyce, Alexander, ed. The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele with Memoirs of the Authors and Notes. London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861.
Grosart, A.B., ed. General Index. The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene. Vol. 15. New York: Russell & Russell, 1881–1886. 1–185.
Ward, A.W. Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; Greene, Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887.
Ward, A.W. Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; Greene, Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 4th ed. Clarendon Press, 1901.
Churton Collins, J. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene. Vol. 2. Clarendon Press, 1905.
Woodberry, G.E. Greene’s Place in Comedy: A Monograph. Representative English Comedies. Ed. Charles Mills Gayley. MacMillan, 1916. 385–394.
Seltzer, Daniel, ed. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. By Robert Greene. University of Nebraska Press, 1963.
Lavin, J.A., ed. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. By Robert Greene. Ernest Benn Ltd., 1969.
Fraser, Russel A. and Norman Rabkin, eds. Drama of the English Renaissance I: The Tudor Period. Macmillan; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1976.
Bevington, David, ed. The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. By Robert Greene. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. W.W. Norton. 2002. 134–181.

Secondary Sources

Secondary sources are listed alphabetically by surname(s) of the author(s).
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. Of the Vanity and Uncertainty of Arts and Sciences. Trans. James Standford. London: Henry Wykes, 1569. STC 204. ESTC S100458.
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Altman, Joel B. The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and the Development of Elizabethan Drama. University of California Press, 1978. WSB at17.
The Famous History of Friar Bacon. London: Edward Allde, 1629. STC 1184. ESTC S123071.
The Second Tome of Homilies. London: Richard Jugge, 1563. STC 13666.7. ESTC S125416.
The Troublesome Reign of John King of England. London, 1591. STC 14644, 14645. ESTC S106391.
Arber, Edward, ed. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554–1640 A.D. 3 vols. London, 1875.
Ardolino, Frank. Greene’s Use of the History of Oxford in The Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. ANQ 18.2 (2005): 20–25.
Assarsson-Rizzi, Kerstin. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: A Structural and Thematic Analysis of Robert Greene’s Play. C.W.K. Gleerupland, 1972.
Bacon, Roger. Epistola fratris Rogerii Baconus de secretis operibus artis et naturae, et de nullitate magiae. Fr. Rogeri Bacon Opera Quaedem Hactenus Inedita. Ed. J.S. Brewer. London: Longman, Green, and Roberts, 1859. 523–551.
Bale, John. Illustrium Maioris Britaniae Scriptorum. Gippeswici in Anglia: D. van der Straten, 1548. STC 1295. ESTC S100599.
Bentley, Greg. Coppernose: The Nature of Burden’s Disease in Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. English Language Notes 22.4 (1985): 28–32.
Bergeron, David M. Bogus History and Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Early Theatre 17.1 (2014): 93–112.
Bevington, David. Tudor Drama and Politics. Harvard University Press, 1968. WSB aaj49.
Bourne, William. Inventions or Devices Very Necessary for All Generals and Captains or Leaders of Men. London: T. Orwin, 1590. STC 3421. ESTC S106199.
Bowers, Fredson. On Editing Shakespeare and Other Elizabethan Dramatists. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955.
Bright, Timothy. A Treatise of Melancholy. London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1586. STC 3747. ESTC S106464.
Browne, Sir Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. London: A. Miller, 1650. Wing B5160. ESTC R2160.
Burroughs, Jeremiah. The Jewel of Christian Contentment. London, 1649. Wing B6103. ESTC R32016.
Butterworth, Philip. Magic on the Early English Stage. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Butterworth, Philip. Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre. Society for Theatre Research, 1998.
Calvin, Jean. The Commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the Acts of the Apostles. London: Thomas Dawson, 1585. STC 4398. ESTC S107377.
Cartwright, Kent. Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Chettle, Henry. Kind-Harts Dream. London: William Wright, 1593. STC 5123. ESTC S116845.
Churton Collins, J. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene. Vol. 2. Clarendon Press, 1905.
Clark, Stuart. Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. WSB aau549.
Clarke, Andrew, ed. Register of the University of Oxford, Vol. 2 (1571–1622). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887.
Cockett, Peter. The Ghost of Dick Tarlton, Gentleman. The Queen’s Men Seminar. Shakespeare Association of America. April 2009.
Coxe, Francis. A Short Treatise Declaring the Detestable Wickedness of Magical Sciences. London: John Allde, 1561. STC 5950. ESTC S105100.
Crupi, Charles W. Robert Greene. Twayne, 1986.
Dahlquist, Mark. Love and Technological Iconoclasm in Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. English Literary History 78 (2011): 51–77.
Dean, Paul. Shakespeare’s Henry VI Trilogy and Elizabethan Romance Histories: The Origins of a Genre. Shakespeare Quarterly 33.1 (1982): 34–48. WSB bp229.
De Laurens, Andre. A Discourse of the Preservation of the Sight. London: Felix Kingston, 1599. STC 7304. ESTC S110934.
Dedijer, Steven. The Rainbow Scheme: British Secret Service and the Pax Britannica. Clio Goes Spying: Eight Essays on the History of Intelligence. Ed. Wilhelm Agrell and Bo Huldt. Malmö: Lund, 1983. 10–63.
Dee, John. Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee. Ed. James Crossley. Manchester: Chetham Society, 1851.
Dee, John. Friar Bacon his Discovery of the Miracles of Art, Nature, and Magick. Faithfully Translated out of Dr Dees own Copy by T.M. and Never Before in English. London, 1659. Wing B373. ESTC R10803.
Dessen, Alan C. Robert Greene and the Theatrical Vocabulary of the Early 1590s. Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer. Ed. Kirk Melnikoff and Edward Geiskes. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2008. 25–37.
Diehl, Huston. Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. WSB av638.
Digges, Leonard, and Thomas Digges. An Arithmetical Warlike Treatise Named Stratioticos. London, 1579. STC 6848. ESTC S109689.
Digges, Leonard, and Thomas Digges. A Geometrical Practice Named Pantometria. London: Henry Bynneman, 1571. STC 6858. ESTC S111670.
Eamon, William. Technology as Magic in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Janus 70 (1983): 171–212.
Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyper Reality. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1986.
Elliott, John R., Alan H. Nelson, Alexandra F. Johnston, and Diana Wyatt eds. Records of Early English Drama: Oxford. 2 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Library and London: British Library, 2004.
Empson, William. English Pastoral Poetry. New York: W.W. Norton, 1938.
Estienne, Charles. The Defense of Contraries. Trans. Anthony Munday. London: John Windet, 1593. STC 6467. ESTC S105222.
Ettin, Andrew V. Magic into Art: The Magician’s Renunciation of Magic in English Renaissance Drama. Texas Studies in Literature and Language 19.3 (1977): 268–293. WSB bu1122.
Feingold, Mordechai. The Occult Tradition in the English Universities of the Renaissance: A Reassessment. Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance. Ed. Brian Vickers. Cambridge University Press, 1984: 73–94.
Fleay, F.G. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama 1559–1642, 2 vols. London: Reeves and Turner, 1891.
Florio, John. A World of Words. London: Arnold Hatfield, 1598. STC 11098. ESTC S102357.
Foakes, R.A., ed. Henslowe’s Diary, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2002. WSB aah397.
Fuller, Thomas. Abel Redevivus, or The Dead Yet Speaking. London: Thomas Brudenell, 1651. Wing F2400. ESTC R177335.
Galloway, David, ed. Records of Early English Drama: Norwich, 1540–1642. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
Gascoigne, George. The Noble Art of Venery or Hunting. London: Henry Bynneman for Christopher Barker, 1575. STC 24328. ESTC S121817.
Geree, John. Atrologo-Mastix or a Discovery of the Vanity and Iniquity of Judicial Astrology, or Divining by the Stars the Success or Miscarriage of Human Affaires. London: Mathew Simmons, 1646. Wing G586. ESTC R200963.
Gower, John. Jo. Gower de Confessio Amantis. London: Thomas Berthelette, 1554. STC 12144. ESTC S120946.
Greene, Robert. Alcida, Greenes Metamorphosis. London: George Purslowe, 1617. STC 12216. ESTC S105886.
Greene, Robert. Ciceronis Amor. London: I. Roberts, 1589. STC 12224. ESTC S105897.
Greene, Robert. The comicall historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon. London: Thomas Creede, 1599. STC 12233. ESTC S105900. DEEP 275.
Greene, Robert. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Ed. Daniel Seltzer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963.
Greene, Robert. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Ed. J.A. Lavin. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1969.
Greene, Robert. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Ed. W.W. Greg. Malone Society Reprints. Oxford: Malone Society, 1926.
Greene, Robert. Greenes Farewell to Folly. London: Thomas Scarlet, 1591. STC 12241. ESTC S105962.
Greene, Robert. Greenes Groats-worth of Wit, Bought with a Million of Repentance. London, 1592. STC 12245. ESTC S117579.
Greene, Robert. Greenes Orpharion. London: I. Roberts, 1599. STC 12260. ESTC S103410.
Greene, Robert. The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. 134–181.
Greene, Robert. The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. London: Adam Islip, 1594. STC 12267. ESTC S105968.
Greene, Robert. Menaphon. London: Thomas Orwin, 1589. STC 12272. ESTC S105808.
Greene, Robert. A Notable Discovery of Cozenage. London: John Wolfe for T.N., 1591. STC 12279. ESTC S92748.
Greene, Robert. Orlando Furioso. Ed. W.W. Greg. Oxford: Malone Society, 1907.
Greene, Robert. Pandosto the Triumph of Time. London: Thomas Orwin, 1588. STC 12285. ESTC S108586.
Greene, Robert. Philomela, The Lady Fitzwater’s Nightingale. London: R. Bourne and Edward Allde, 1592. STC 12296. ESTC S105870.
Greene, Robert. A Quip for an Upstart Courtier. London: John Wolfe, 1592. STC 12301a.5. ESTC S125236.
Greene, Robert. The Scottish historie of Iames the fourth. London: Thomas Creede, 1598. STC 12308. ESTC S105810. DEEP 255.
Greene, Robert. The Spanish Masquerado. London: Roger Ward, 1589. STC 12309. ESTC S118460.
Greene, Robert, and Thomas Lodge. A looking glasse for London and England. London: Thomas Creede, 1594. STC 16679. ESTC S109578. DEEP 174.
Greg, W.W., ed. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. By Robert Greene. Malone Society, 1926.
Greg, W.W. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus 1604–1616: Parallel Texts. Clarendon Press, 1950.
Greg, W.W., ed. Orlando Furioso. By Robert Greene. Malone Society, 1907.
Greg, W.W. The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
Hackett, Helen. A New Image of Elizabeth I: The Three Goddesses Theme in Art and Literature. Huntington Library Quarterly 77.3 (2014): 225–256.
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Harsnett, Samuel. A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures. London: James Roberts, 1603. STC 12880. ESTC S120922.
Harvey, Gabriel. Four Letters and Certain Sonnets, especially Touching Robert Greene, and other Parties, by Him Abused. London: John Wolfe, 1592. STC 12900. ESTC S103855.
Hieatt, Charles W. Multiple Plotting in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Renaissance Drama 16 (1985): 17–34.
Hieatt, Charles W. A New Source for Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Review of English Studies 32.126 (1981): 180–187.
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Ide, Arata. Robert Greene’s Nordovicensis, the Saddler’s Son. Notes and Queries 53.4 (2006): 432–436.
Jones, John Henry. The English Faust Book: A Critical Edition Based on the Text of 1592. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Kathman, David. London Inns as Playing Venues for the Queen’s Men. Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Ed. Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009. 65–75. WSB aay90.
Kirschbaum, Leo. Shakespeare and the Stationers. Columbus: Ohio State Universtiy Press, 1955.
Knight, Sarah. The Niniversity at the Bankside: Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. Ed. Thomas Betteridge and Greg Walker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 355–370.
LaGrandeur, Kevin. Brasenose College’s Brass Head and Greene’s Friar Bacon. Notes and Queries 47.1 (2000): 48–50.
LaGrandeur, Kevin. The Talking Brass Head as a Symbol of Dangerous Knowledge in Friar Bacon and Alphonsus King of Aragon. English Studies 5 (1999): 408–422.
Lavin, J.A., ed. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. By Robert Greene. Ernest Benn Ltd., 1969.
Levin, Richard. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, John of Bordeaux, and the 1683 Edition of The History of Friar Bacon. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 40 (2001): 54–66.
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Lily, William. A Short Introduction of Grammar. London: Francis Flowar, 1590. STC 15622.3. ESTC S93481.
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Prosopography

Andrew Griffin

Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the department of English and an affiliate professor in the department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is general editor (text) of Queen’s Men Editions. He studies early modern drama and early modern historiography while serving as the lead editor at the EMC Imprint. He has co-edited with Helen Ostovich and Holger Schott Syme Locating the Queen’s Men (2009) and has co-edited The Making of a Broadside Ballad (2016) with Patricia Fumerton and Carl Stahmer. His monograph, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama: Biography, History, Catastrophe, was published with the University of Toronto Press in 2019. He is editor of the anonymous The Chronicle History of King Leir (Queen’s Men Editions, 2011). He can be contacted at griffin@english.ucsb.edu.

Christopher Matusiak

Christopher Matusiak (Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay) is an Associate Professor of English at Ithaca College in New York where he teaches courses on Shakespeare and early modern drama. His research on seventeenth-century theatre management at the Drury Lane Cockpit has appeared in Early Theatre and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and in Shakespeare Quarterly on the use of John Aubrey’s manuscripts in studies of Shakespeare’s life. He is currently writing a book (with Eva Griffith) about Christopher Beeston and the Cockpit playhouse, and researching another on the persistence of illegal stage-playing during the English Civil Wars, Shakespearean Actors and their Playhouses in Civil War London. He also prepared REED London: The Cockpit-Phoenix: an edited collection of seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed documents illustrating the history of the Cockpit-Phoenix playhouse in Drury Lane (for The Records of Early English Drama). He can be contacted at cmatusiak@ithaca.edu.

Helen Ostovich

Helen Ostovich, professor emerita of English at McMaster University, is the founder and general editor of Queen’s Men Editions. She is a general editor of The Revels Plays (Manchester University Press); Series Editor of Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama (Ashgate, now Routledge), and series co-editor of Late Tudor and Stuart Drama (MIP); play-editor of several works by Ben Jonson, in Four Comedies: Ben Jonson (1997); Every Man Out of his Humour (Revels 2001); and The Magnetic Lady (Cambridge 2012). She has also edited the Norton Shakespeare 3 The Merry Wives of Windsor Q1602 and F1623 (2015); The Late Lancashire Witches and A Jovial Crew for Richard Brome Online, revised for a 4-volume set from OUP 2021; The Ball, for the Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley (2021); The Merry Wives of Windsor for Internet Shakespeare Editions, and The Dutch Courtesan (with Erin Julian) for the Complete Works of John Marston, OUP 2022. She has published many articles and book chapters on Jonson, Shakespeare, and others, and several book collections, most recently Magical Transformations of the Early Modern English Stage with Lisa Hopkins (2014), and the equivalent to book website, Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies: The Three Ladies of London in Context containing scripts, glossary, almost fifty conference papers edited and updated to essays; video; link to Queen’s Mens Ediitons and YouTube: http://threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/contexts/index.htm, 2015. Recently, she was guest editor of Strangers and Aliens in London ca 1605, Special Issue on Marston, Early Theatre 23.1 (June 2020). She can be contacted at ostovich@mcmaster.ca.

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Beatrice Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Joey Takeda

Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he assumed in 2020 after three years as the Lead Developer on LEMDO.

Kate LeBere

Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

Mahayla Galliford

Project Manager, 2025-present; Assistant Project Manager, 2024-2025; Research Assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA (honours with distinction) in 2024, and an MA English in 2026. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. Her SSHRC-funded MA thesis project focuses on transcribing, editing, and encoding early modern girls’ manuscripts, specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s May Masque in collaboration with LEMDO.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

Navarra Houldin

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

Peter Cockett

Peter Cockett is an associate professor in the iArts (Integrated Arts) program at McMaster University. He is the co-editor, with Melinda Gough, of Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond (University of Toronto Press, 2025) which publishes the findings of their 2018 Performance as Research (PaR) workshop at the Stratford Festival Lab. He is the general editor (performance), and technical co-ordinating editor of Queen’s Men Editions. His PaR directing credits include King Leir, The Famous Victories of Henry V, and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (2006), Clyomon and Clamydes (2010), and Three Ladies of London (2015) for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM). The process behind the 2006 productions is documented in depth on the project website Performing the Queen’s Men. For the PLS, the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players, he has directed the Digby Mary Magdalene (2003) and the double bill of George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale and the Chester Antichrist (2004). He also directed An Experiment in Elizabethan Comedy (2005) for the SQM project and Inside Out: The Persistence of Allegory (2008) in collaboration with Alan Dessen. Peter is a professional actor and director with numerous stage and screen credits. He can be contacted at cockett@mcmaster.ca.

Robert Greene

Tracey El Hajj

Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

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