Claire M. L. Bourne is Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her teaching and research focus on early modern drama, book history, textual editing, and theatre studies. She is the author of
Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England (OUP, 2020) and has published extensively on book design and the history of reading. She is editing
Henry the Sixth, Part 1, for the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series, and is collaborating with Jason Scott- Warren (University of Cambridge) on a series of projects related to the Free Library of Philadelphia's copy of the Shakespeare First Folio annotated by John Milton.
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).