Jane Kingsley-Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is author of three monographs: the first book-length study of the Sonnets' reception The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets (2019), Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture (2010) and Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003). She is currently working on a new edition of the Sonnets for the Cambridge Shakespeare Editions series.

W. Reginald Rampone, Jr is an alumnus of Washington and Lee University, Boston College, Brown University, and the University of Rhode Island, USA.  He co-edited An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories (2012) and is the author of Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare (2010). He has published many book reviews in The Sixteenth-Century Journal, and is currently working on a critical edition of Shackerley Marmion's Hollands Leaguer.