Clara Calvo has a first degree in English Language and Linguistics from the University Complutensis of Madrid (1985) and a PhD from the University of Nottingham (1990). Since she joined the University of Murcia in 1994, she has taught several courses on English literature, including courses on poetry, Jane Austen’s fiction, Pope’s protoromanticism and Byron’s augustanism. From 1995 to 2005, she was in charge of the stylistics section of The Year’s Work in English Studies. She is the author of a monograph on Shakespeare, discourse analysis and politeness, Power Relations and Fool-Master Discourse in Shakespeare (OPSL 1991) and has co-authored, with Jean Jacques Weber, The Literature Workbook (Routledge 1998). Her publications include articles on telephone conversations in crime fiction, the pronouns of address in Shakespeare (Language and Literature 1 [1992]) and Shakespeare in Spain. Her most recent article is a reading of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park as a rewriting of Shakespeare’s King Lear (Shakespeare Survey 58 [2005]). Her current research interests include, beside Shakespeare and Jane Austen, eighteenth-century poetry, the Romantic period and crime fiction.