Michael Shapiro is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he directed the Program in Jewish Culture and Society.  He is the author of Children of the Revels: the Boy Companies of Shakespeare’s Day and Their Plays (1977) and Gender in Play: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (1994), and coeditor of Wrestling With Shylock: Jewish Responses to The Merchant Venice (Cambridge University Press, 2017).  His current project is on Shylock after the Shoah.