Carolyn Sale

Carolyn Sale is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Film and Creative Writing at the University of Alberta. Her work on early modern writers and the law includes The Law in Shakespeare (2007), Shakespeare and the Law (2008), The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500–1610 (2010), Shakespeare and Judgment (2016), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500–1700 (2017) and Shakespeare and Wisdom: Ecological, Ecumenical, and Ethical Horizons (2024). She also co-edited Shakespeare’s Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity and the Good (2023) with Julia Reinhard Lupton and Kent Lehnhof.