GERALD GUJNNESS was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and educated at Shrewsbury School in England and at Trinity, College, Cambridge, where he read History and English. His Ph.D. thesis for London University was on eroticism in seventeenth-century poetry. Professor Guinness has lived and taught in India, lectured for the Civic Trust in London, and served as Tutor Organizer for the Workers Educational Association in the Norfolk countryside. His current interests include Latin American and Caribbean literature, on which he has published a variety of reviews and articles. He is co-editor of On Text and Context, a collection of essays which was published recently, and is now at work on a book on play in literature, to be entitled Auctor Ludens.2.
