Namratha Rao is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of York. She has published widely on the intersections between early modern poetics and philosophy in works by writers such as Edmund Spenser, Mary Sidney, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Spenser Studies, Companionable Thinking: Spenser With... and is completing her first monograph on Spenser and Milton.

John Jowett is Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is the General Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare with particular responsibility for the original-spelling Critical Reference edition. He is General Editor for the ongoing Arden Early Modern Drama, a parallel series to the Arden Shakespeare that publishes non-Shakespearian drama of the early modern period.