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Yasmin Arshad has a PhD in English and an MA in Shakespeare in History from University College London, UK. Her research interests include investigating images of Cleopatra in the early modern period and looking at how the Egyptian Queen and her story were used and mediated in different circumstances. In 2013, she produced Samuel Daniel's Tragedie of Cleopatra, the first such staging of the play in four hundred years. Chris Laoutaris is Senior Lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. His most recent book, Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize for Biography, and was Observer and Telegraph Book of the Year. It contains material on Lady Elizabeth Russell's patronage of portraiture and funerary sculpture, as well as her connection to early modern female literary and religious coteries. His monograph Shakespearean Maternities is an interdisciplinary study of the maternal body across the fields of drama, art, medicine and material culture. Catherine Richardson is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, UK. She is author of Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The material life of the household (Manchester, 2006), Shakespeare and Material Culture (OUP, 2011), and A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life 1500-1700, and editor of Clothing Culture 1350-1650 (Ashgate, 2004), with Tara Hamling, Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings (Ashgate, 2010) and with Hamling and David Gaimster, The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (2016). Evelyn Tribble is Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. LENA COWEN ORLIN is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA, Washington DC, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. |
