Dr. Frank Brownlow} is the Gwen and Allen Smith Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught Chaucer, eighteenth-century literature, Romantic literature, and literary criticism, but his specialty is Shakespeare and the Renaissance.Professor Brownlow has written books on Shakespeare and Robert Southwell and edited John Skelton's The Book of the Laurel (1991). His numerous reviews cover both contemporary British and early modern subjects, and include pieces on Malcolm Muggeridge, Cyril Connolly, and W. B. Yeats. He is currently at work on a book about Elizabeth I and the torturer Richard Topcliffe, while continuing to edit Skelton and Southwell.