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Appendices
Biographical notes
Diana Solomon is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. She has written Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theatre: Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print; co-edited the collection, Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice; and co-authored Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation. She has published widely on comedy and on eighteenth-century British theatre in journals such as Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Life, and she is at work on a monograph on “troubling” comedy in eighteenth-century British theatre.
Sean Zwagerman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. He has written Wit’s End: Women’s Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy; co-edited the collection, Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice; and published essays in journals including College Composition and Communication and Americana. He is the co-editor of Discourse and Writing/Redactologie. He is currently completing a monograph arguing for an understanding of rhetorical acts and motives in terms of individual and collective intentionality rather than ideology.
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