Russell Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Drama in the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on Shakespeare, film and theatre and has worked as textual consultant for many film and theatre productions of Shakespeare's plays, including those directed by Kenneth Branagh and Michael Grandage. Among his most recent publications are Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage (2013), Shakespeare and the English-Speaking Cinema (2014) and Shakespeare in the Theatre: Trevor Nunn (2018).