Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Bruce R. Smith is Dean's Professor of English and Theatre at the University of Southern California and has pursued multiple topics, including classics, sexuality, gender, sound studies, and historical phenomenology. He is the author of seven books on Shakespeare, including The Acoustic World of Early Modern England (1999), The Key of Green (2009), and Shakespeare / Cut (2016). His chapter on 'Renaissance Color across Media' appears in the Renaissance volume of A Cultural History of Color (Bloomsbury, 2019).