Deborah C. Payne is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at American University, Washington DC. Her previous publications include The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (2000); Four Libertine Plays from the Restoration (2005); Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play: Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century (2016); and, with Drew Lichtenburg, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, 1986 – 2021 (2024). She also consults for theatre companies in Washington, DC.