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Ann Thompson is Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at King’s College London. She has edited The Taming of the Shrew, and her other publications include Shakespeare’s Chaucer, Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor (with John O. Thompson) and Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660–1900 (with Sasha Roberts). She has also published widely on editing Shakespeare, feminist criticism of Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s language. She is one of the General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare.

Neil Taylor is Dean of Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Roehampton University. He has edited Henry IV, Part 2 and (with Bryan Loughrey) Thomas Middleton: Five Plays. He has also published widely on editing Shakespeare, Shakespeare on film and other aspects of Renaissance and modern drama.