Harry R. McCarthy is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Exeter (UK). He previously held a Research Fellowship at Jesus College (University of Cambridge, UK), and is the author of author of Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (2022) and Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare: Edward's Boys (2020). His articles on boyhood, theatre history, contemporary performance of early modern plays, and racial justice in early modern studies, have appeared in journals including Early Theatre, English Literary History, Shakespeare, and Shakespeare Survey, on whose Editorial Board he currently sits.
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 The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton (2012), Moment by Moment by Shakespeare (1985), and Reinventing Shakespeare (1989). He general-edited the Signs of Race and History of Text Technologies series, founded the interdisciplinary History of Text Technologies program at FSU, 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 the UK.
Terri Bourus is Professor of Theatre and Professor of English at Florida State University. She is a General Editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare and the author of Young Shakespeare's Young Hamlet (2014). She has written essays on stage directions, the performance of religious conversion, Shakespeare and Fletcher's Cardenio, the role of Alice in Arden of Faversham, and Middleton's female roles. Bourus is an Equity actor, and has directed and acted in, two very different productions of Hamlet, both based on Q1.
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 Shakespeares 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.
Anna Pruitt is the Managing Editor of Giving USA at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. She is an Associate Editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare.
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.