Jennifer Higginbotham is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University, USA. Her book,The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence, was published in 2013. Her scholarly articles on early modern girlhood, drama, and women's writing have appeared in the journalsModern Philology,Reformation,Literature Compass, andSixteenth-Century Journalas well as the collectionsThe Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays(2014) andThe Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England(2017).

Mark Albert Johnston is Associate Professor of English at the University of Windsor, CA. His book,Beard Fetish in Early Modern England: Sex, Gender, and Registers of Valuewas published in 2011 and again in 2016. His essays have appeared inEnglish Literary History,Studies in English Literature,English Literary Renaissance, andModern Philology, and in the collectionsMasculinity and the Metropolis of Vice: London 1550-1650(Palgrave, 2010), andThunder at a Playhouse: Essaying Shakespeare and the Early Modern Stage(2010).