Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare

Kavita Mudan Finn is an independent researcher in medieval and early modern literature, popular medievalism, and fan/reception studies. She has published two books, The Last Plantagenet Consorts (2012) and Global Medievalism (2022), co-authored with Helen Young. Her work has appeared in Viator, Shakespeare, Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, Arthuriana, Critical Survey, The Journal of Fandom Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Transformative Works & Cultures, and a range of edited volumes. She is a freelance editor and indexer, and is writing a biography of the fifteenth-century queen Elizabeth Woodville. Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author or editor of ten books and has published widely on Shakespeare. For the New Oxford Shakespeare, he has edited more than ten of Shakespeare's plays. He is a Series Editor of Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Shakespeare and Text, and a General Editor of The Revels Plays series and the forthcoming Oxford Marlowe edition.