Henry S. Turner

Henry S. Turner teaches English Renaissance literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630 (2006) and Shakespeare’s Double Helix (2008) and editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (2002). He is currently writing a book about the history of the corporation from More to Hobbes. www.henrysturner.com


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