Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature

Virginia Lee Strain is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. She has held fellowships at The Huntington Library, Vanderbilt University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Her articles have appeared in ELH and Literature Compass, and in several essay volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (OUP, 2017), Shakespeare and Judgment (EUP, 2016), and Taking Exception to the Law (UTP, 2015). Her dissertation won the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize from the Shakespeare Association of America (2011).