The Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England DE

Subha Mukherji  is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Palgrave mini-series  Crossroads of Knowledge   in Early Modern England , and was Principal Investigator of the 5-year interdisciplinary ERC project,  Crossroads of Knowledge , out of which the series, and this volume, emerge. She has published widely on early modern drama and law, law and literature, the poetics of space, literary epistemologies and Shakespeare. Her most recent work is  Crossings: Migrant Knowledge, Migrant Forms  (co-edited with Natalya Din-Kariuki and Rowan Williams), forthcoming with punctum books in 2024. She is writing a book on  Knowing Encounters  and editing Shakespeare and Fletcher's  Henry VIII  for the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions series. 

Elizabeth Swann  is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include a monograph, Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England (2020), and she has a new short book, Science as Child’s Play in Seventeenth-Century England: Innocence, Experience, and Experiment, forthcoming with Palgrave Pivot in 2024 .