SOPHIE BATTELL is the author of On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare's Drama (2023). She received her PhD from Cardiff University, and has taught at the Universities of Exeter and Zurich. More recently, she has worked at the University of Oxford as research assistant on the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series. Her current project is on the literary and cultural significance of the Sun in early modern England.
GARY TAYLOR is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University. He is a General Editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare and has written, edited, and co-edited numerous other volumes including Reinventing Shakespeare (1989), The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton (2012), and Textual Genealogies and Shakespeare's History Plays (2025). He general-edited the Signs of Race and History of Text Technologies series, founded the interdisciplinary History of Text Technologies program at FSU in 2006, and has written about the practice and theory of editing in various periods and genres. Taylor has also worked to communicate contemporary literary theory and criticism to a mass audience in newspapers, radio, TV, museums and theatres in North America and Europe.
Francis X. Connor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, and the history of the book. An associate editor for the New Oxford Shakespeare, he is the author of Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England (2014), and his work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, PBSA, Sidney Journal, and elsewhere.
