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Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor emeritus from the English Department, Divinity School, and the College of the University of Chicago, is the author of The Unrepentant Renaissance from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (2011) – which won the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Criticism -- Resistant Structures:  Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts (1995); and Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry (1983).  He has co-edited a number of interdisciplinary collections, including, most recently, Shakespeare and the Law:  A Conversation Among Disciplines and Professions (with Bradin Cormack and Martha Nussbaum); Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England (with Derek Hirst); Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688 (with Donna Hamilton); The Theatrical City:  Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649 (with David L. Smith and David Bevington); and The Historical Renaissance:  New Essays in Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture (with Heather Dubrow).  He has published essays on Shakespeare, Donne, Luther, Montaigne, and Milton, on formalism and historicism, and on twentieth-century poetry and critical theory.