STANLEY WELLS, CONSULTANT EDITOR
Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, Honorary President of
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, is Professor Emeritus
of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham,
Honorary Governor Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare
Company, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College Oxford.
He is general editor of the Oxford and Penguin editions
of Shakespeare and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to
Shakespeare. His books include Shakespeare for All Time,
Shakespeare, Sex, and Love, and Great Shakespeare Actors.
ANJNA CHOUHAN
Anjna Chouhan is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. She has published articles on
Victorian theater, farce, and religious stage props, and edited
a sourcebook on the Victorian actor-manager Henry Irving.
She spoke on the BBC program Great British Rail Journeys
about Shakespeare in the 19th century. She contributes to
the Cambridge School Shakespeare digital resource.
GILLIAN DAY
Dr. Gillian Day lectures at the Shakespeare Birthplace
Trust and York University. She has taught English and
Drama in Britain, North America, and Scandinavia, and
held visiting lectureships at the universities of Helsinki
and Düsseldorf. Her publications include King Richard III
in the Arden Shakespeare at Stratford series (as editor),
and the introduction to Henry VI Part III and
the performance history of Richard III in editions
of the plays for Penguin Shakespeare.
JOHN FARNDON
John Farndon is a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin
University in Cambridge and an author, playwright,
composer, and poet. He has written many international
bestsellers such as Do You Think You’re Clever? and
translated into English verse the plays of Lope de Vega
and the poetry of Alexander Pushkin. He taught the history
of drama at the Actor’s Studio, studied playwriting at
Central School of Speech and Drama, and is now Assessor
for new plays for London’s OffWestEnd Theatre Awards.JANE KINGSLEY-SMITH
Jane Kingsley-Smith is a Reader at Roehampton University,
London. She has written two monographs—Shakespeare’s
Drama of Exile and Cupid in Early Modern Literature and
Culture—and most recently edited for Penguin John
Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, and
John Ford’s The Broken Heart and ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore.
She is a regular lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe, London.NICK WALTON
Nick Walton is Shakespeare Courses Development Manager
at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon,
and serves as Executive Secretary to the International
Shakespeare Association. He has written introductory
material for the Penguin editions of Timon of Athens and
Love’s Labour’s Lost, and is co-author of The Shakespeare
Wallbook. He has worked closely with professional theater
companies at home and abroad, and has been a guest
speaker at the British Museum and the National Theatre.CONTRIBUTORS