Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He is co-series editor for Palgrave Macmillan’s Shakespeare Handbooks, and co-supervisory editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. His publications include: Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Text and Its Theatrical Life (Palgrave, 2005), with Stanley Wells, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Oxford, 2004) and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy (Cambridge, 2013), and, with Paul Prescott and Erin Sullivan, A Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival (Bloomsbury, 2013).