Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Fellow of Trinity College, UK.
His books include Tragedy: A very short introduction (OUP) and Shakespeare and the Victorians (Arden).
Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He was formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is editor of Shakespeare Survey and co-general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series.