LOWELL GALLAGHER is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Medusa's Gaze: Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance as well as numerous articles on early modern English Catholicism, Shakespeare and postmodern ethics. FREDERICK S. RODEN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture and the editor of Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies. PATRICIA JULIANA SMITH is Assistant Professor of English at Hofs