Journal of Early Modern Studies, n. 5 (2016), pp. 423-427 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-18099

ISSN 2279-7149 (online)
www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems
2016 Firenze University Press

Contributors

Rosalind Barber is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative 
Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, a Visiting Research Fellow 
at the University of Sussex, and Director of Research at the Shakespearean 
Authorship Trust. She is the author of Shakespeare: The Evidence (<leanpub.com/
shakespeare>), a comprehensive online compendium of evidence, arguments 
and counter-arguments related to the authorship of the Shakespeare works. 
Previous articles on early modern literary biography have been published in Notes 
& Queries, Rethinking History, Critical Survey. Twice a winner (2011, 2014) of 
the Calvin Hoffmann Prize for a distinguished work on Christopher Marlowe.  

Thomas Betteridge worked for ten years as a professional stage and production 
manager before entering academia. During this time he worked at a number of 
theatres including the Royal Court and the Old Vic. Since becoming an academic 
he has worked at UEA, Kingston University and Oxford Brookes University. He has 
been awarded a number of research grants including one from the Wellcome Trust 
to work with Goat and Monkey Theatre company to stage an immersive drama at 
Hampton Court Palace entitled A Little Neck (2009). He has also been awarded 
funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to stage a number of early 
modern plays including the first modern production of Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire 
of Three Estates at Linlithgow Palace (2013). He has published numerous articles and 
books including Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics and Religion in the 
Work of Thomas More (2013). 

Roger Chartier is Professor at the Collège de France, Directeur d’études at the École 
des hautes études en sciences sociales and Annenberg Visiting professor in History at 
the University of Pennsylvania. His latest books published in English are Inscription 
and Erasure. Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century 
(tr. Arthur Goldhammer, 2007), Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare. The 
Story of a Lost Play (tr. Janet Lloyd, 2013), and The Author’s Hand and the Printer’s 
Mind (tr. Lydia G. Cochrane, 2014). 

Marcus Dahl is a Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of 
Advanced Study, London University. He is currently completing his book on the 
attribution of authorship in the canons of William Shakespeare, John Ford, John 
Marston, James Shirley and others. 



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Christy Desmet, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University 
of Georgia, is the author of Reading Shakespeare’s Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and 
Identity (1992) and the editor of several volumes on Shakespeare and Appropriation 
(with Robert Sawyer, 1999); Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare (with Robert Sawyer, 
2001); Shakespearean Gothic (with Anne Williams, 1999); and Helen Faucit 
(2011). Shakespeare/Not Shakespeare (edited with Natalie Loper and Jim Casey) 
is forthcoming from Palgrave. Her most recent work is on Shakespeare and New 
Media/Social Media, and with her colleagues at UGA, she is developing a graduate 
and undergraduate Certificate Program in Shakespeare Studies. 

Darren Freebury-Jones completed his PhD at Cardiff University. His doctoral thesis, 
‘Kyd and Shakespeare: Authorship, Influence, and Collaboration’, investigated 
Brian Vickers’ arguments for an expanded Thomas Kyd canon. Freebury-Jones 
will serve as editor and authorship consultant for a new edition of Kyd’s works. 
He has also examined the canons of dramatists such as Thomas Nashe, John 
Marston, and John Fletcher (for a forthcoming monographic collection of essays 
on Fletcher). He is currently collaborating with fellow attribution scholars Marcus 
Dahl and Lene Buhl Petersen on a monograph, which explores different methods 
for identifying early modern dramatists’ hands in extant texts. 

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the 
author of a number of studies of early modern literature, culture and history, 
including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012: paperback 2014) and Shakespeare and 
Republicanism (2005: paperback 2008). He is currently working on a study of 
lying and is general editor, with Joe Black, Jennifer Richards and Cathy Shrank, of 
the Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, both forthcoming with OUP. He is vice-chair 
of the Society for Renaissance Studies, a regular reviewer for The Irish Times and a 
visiting professor at the University of Granada. 

Eilidh Kane was awarded her PhD in 2014 from the University of Glasgow, where 
she is currently based. She is working on her monograph which focuses on the 
collaborative writing of Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. Her research 
interests include early modern authorship and print culture, particularly pamphlets 
and printed plays.

William Leahy is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Professor in 
English Literature at Brunel University London. He has written widely on 
early modern spectacle, publishing Elizabethan Triumphal Processions (2005) 
and, as a section editor, contributed significantly to the recently published 
and award winning John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen 
Elizabeth I (2015, 5 vols). More recently he has published on Shakespeare’s 
history plays and the Shakespeare Authorship Question, most notably in his 
edition of collected essays Shakespeare and his Authors: Critical Perspectives on 
the Authorship Question (2010).



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Jean-Christophe Mayer is a Research Professor employed by the French 
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is also a member of 
the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-classical Age and the 
Enlightenment. He has published widely in the field of Shakespeare and 
English Renaissance studies. His current areas of interest and research are 
early modern book history and manuscript studies. He is completing a book 
entitled Shakespeare’s Early Readers: A Cultural History from 1590 to 1800 for 
Cambridge University Press.

Donatella Pallotti is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University 
of Florence. Her research interests focus primarily on Early Modern culture, 
stylistics and literary pragmatics. She has written on the stylistics of poetry, 
Donne’s poetry, Shakespeare’s and Isabella Andreini’s sonnets, Shakespeare’s 
narratives poems, psalm translation in verse, women’s prophecy and spiritual 
testimonies, and Early Modern representations of rape. Her current research 
is divided into three main strands: the first two are related respectively to her 
previous work on seventeenth-century radical literature, and the representations 
of rape in Early Modern culture. The third strand revolves around the issue 
of authorship in Shakespeare’s poetry. She is editor, with Paola Pugliatti, of 
Journal of Early Modern Studies.

Lene Buhl Petersen is the author of Shakespeare’s Errant Texts (2010), the online 
version of the Korpus of Early Modern Playtexts in English: KEMPE (2004) and 
various articles on the transmission of early modern English playtexts. Her main 
research area is early modern text and attribution studies/corpus linguistics, 
focusing on theatrical form and linguistic style in the so-called ‘bad’ quartos 
and co-authored playtexts of the early modern stages. She is also a translator 
of Danish renaissance manuscripts into English. Since 2005, she has been a 
member of the international research network ‘London Forum for Authorship 
Studies’. 

Diana Price is the author of Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence 
of An Authorship Problem, the first book on the subject to be published in a peer-
reviewed series (2001). The paperback was released in 2013. Price’s research 
has been published in The Review of English Studies, Research Opportunities 
in Renaissance Drama, Tennessee Law Review, and Skeptic Magazine, among 
others. Since 2012, she has been seen in two TV documentaries, Last Will. 
And Testament, broadcast on various PBS affiliates, and The Naked Shakespeare, 
broadcast on various ARTE affiliates. Price’s website is at <shakespeare-
authorship.com>.

Paola Pugliatti, Professor of English Literature now retired, has taught at the 
Universities of Messina, Bologna, Pisa and Florence. She has written extensively
on Shakespeare and on early modern European culture and has also devoted 
attention to the study of literary genres (drama and the novel) and to modernist



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literature (Joyce’s Ulysses in particular). Her present interests are focussed on early 
modern European popular culture, the Commedia dell’Arte and the theme of 
authorship, with particular attention to issues of collaboration in early modern 
English theatre. Her latest book-length studies are Beggary and Theatre in Early 
Modern England (2003) and Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition (2010). She 
is editor, with Donatella Pallotti, of Journal of Early Modern Studies.

Joseph Rudman has been at Carnegie Mellon University since 1959 and has 
been working in the field of non-traditional authorship attribution since the 
late 1970s. He has lectured and published widely on the problems of non-
traditional attribution studies in general, problems in the studies of the canon 
of Daniel Defoe, the studies of the Federalist papers, the studies of the Historia 
Augusta, and Fielding’s The History of Ophelia. He has also lectured and 
published on how these studies should be designed and carried out.

Robert Sawyer is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where 
he teaches Shakespeare, Victorian Literature, and Literary Criticism. Author of 
Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare (2003), he is also co-editor of Shakespeare 
and Appropriation (1999), and Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare (2001). His essay 
on the connection between Marlowe and Shakespeare, particularly post-9/11, 
“Recent Reckonings: Marlowe, Shakespeare and 21st Century Terrorism,” 
was the Co-Winner of the 2013 Calvin Hoffman Prize. His most recent 
publication is a book chapter entitled, “‘A Whirl of Aesthetic Terminology’: 
Swinburne, Shakespeare, and Ethical Criticism” in Shakespeare and the Ethics of 
Appropriation (2014). He is currently working on a book project for Palgrave 
Press entitled Shakespeare between the World Wars to be published in 2016.

Katherine Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin 
Cities. She is the author of two books, She Hath Been Reading: Women and 
Shakespeare Clubs in America (2012) and The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian 
Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater (2003), the co-editor of 
Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama (2011), and the author of several 
articles on the reception history of Shakespeare. She is completing a book on 
the afterlife of Anne Hathaway Shakespeare.

Gary Taylor is Research Professor of English at Florida State University, 
general editor of the Oxford Middleton (2007) and of the New Oxford 
Shakespeare (2016). He is an author or co-editor of more than twenty books, 
and more than eighty articles and book chapters. He has co-edited two books 
on Cardenio and its relationship to Double Falsehood: with David Carnegie, 
The Quest for Cardenio (2012), and with Terri Bourus, The Creation and Re-
Creation of Cardenio (2013), which also includes his creative reconstruction of 
the lost play.



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Marina Tarlinskaja is Professor Emerita at the University of Washington where 
she taught Linguistics from 1985 to 2010. Formerly she was Professor at the 
Moscow Linguistic University (1969-1981). Her main scholarly interests are 
English versification in evolution (XII-XX centuries) and Renaissance drama. 
She is the author of four books: English Verse: Theory and History (1976); 
Shakespeare’s Verse. Iambic Pentameter and the Poet’s Idiosyncrasies (1987); Strict 
Stress-Meter in English Poetry Compared with German and Russian (1992); 
Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 (2014), and over 
200 scholarly articles. Recently she edited (and contributed to) a collection of 
essays in memory of M.L. Gasparov: M. L. Gasparov. About Him. For Him 
(2016 in print).

Gregory Thompson is an award-winning theatre director creating productions 
that combine ensemble performances with innovative stagings and actor-
audience relationships. He has directed for the Royal Shakespeare Company 
and the Young Vic amongst others in the UK, and his own company AandBC 
has performed Shakespeare all over world. At UCL he matches scientists 
with performing artists to enhance, extend and disrupt academic activities to 
yield deeper or more surprising research outcomes; and applies creative and 
collaborative practices to enterprise activities.