Emma Whipday is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University, UK. Her first book,
Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home (2019), is co-winner of the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020. Other publications include
Teaching Shakespeare and His Sisters: An Embodied Approach (2023) and
Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance (co-edited with Simon Smith, 2022). She is also a playwright; her play
Shakespeare's Sister (2016) won the Theatre Royal Haymarket's Masterclass 'Pitch Your Play' award, and her play
The Defamation of Cicely Lee won the American Shakespeare Center's 2019 'Shakespeare's New Contemporaries' prize.
Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Higher Education & Research, Shakespeare's Globe and Professor of Shakespeare Studies, King's College London, UK.
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Gordon McMullan is a professor of English at King's College London, UK.
Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King's College London, UK. She is the author of
Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005),
Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 (2013) and
Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men (2020), and the editor of plays including Fletcher's
The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowley's
The Witch of Edmonton.
Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, and Visiting Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London, UK. With Amy Lidster, she is co-editor of
Shakespeare at War: A Material History (2023) and co-curator of the
Shakespeare and War exhibition at the National Army Museum (October 2023 - April 2024). Her other publications include her books on
Shakespeare's Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance (2020) and
Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007), her collections of essays on
Hamlet for the Arden Shakespeare 'State of Play' series (The Arden Shakespeare, 2021), on
Ivo van Hove (Methuen Drama, 2018),
Shakespeare and Textual Studies (2015) and on
World-Wide Shakespeares (2005), and critical editions of
The Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (2014) and John Ford's '
Tis Pity She's a Whore for Arden Early Modern Drama (The Arden Shakespeare, 2011).