Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham and Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Peter Davison has written or edited forty books on Orwell, Shakespeare and drama; he was appointed an OBE in 1999 and awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in 2003.
Charles Edelman teaches at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. His books include Shakespeare in Production: The Merchant of Venice (2002), and The Stukeley Plays (2005).