Douglas Clark is a PhD candidate in the department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His doctoral research is concerned with investigating the multifarious representations and operations of the ‘will’ within the literature of the English Renaissance. His essay ‘Being, Nothingness and the Female Body in Early Modern Drama’ features in Transgression and Its Limits. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, 2012. ISBN: 1-4438-3729-6. His essay ‘The Legacy of the Will’ is currently under review for publication within a collection entitled Reclaiming the Soul (Forthcoming, Ashgate Press). He also maintains a keen interest in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the work of Jacques Derrida.