Amy Lidster is a Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Authorships and Authority in Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts (Routledge, forthcoming). Her work has appeared widely in books and journals, including Old St Paul's and Culture (Palgrave, 2021), Shakespeare Survey, and Renaissance Drama. She is currently finishing Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict, a companion monograph linked to this edited collection, and preparing the introduction for the Oxford World's Classics edition of 1 Henry VI.
Sonia Massai is a Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. Her publications include Shakespeare's Accents (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which was CHOICE Best Academic Book 2021, and Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (Cambridge University Press, 2007). She has edited collections of essays about Hamlet (2021), Ivo van Hove (2018), Shakespeare and Textual Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and on World-Wide Shakespeares (2005), and critical editions of The Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (2014) and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2011). She is currently editing a new edition of Richard III and has been appointed General Editor of the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions series.