KATHARINE GOODLAND is Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island, USA, where she teaches courses in medieval and early modern culture and early drama, including Shakespeare. She is on the editorial board of the Shakespeare Bulletin and the Executive Board of the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar.  She is the author of Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama (Ashgate, 2006). Her articles have appeared in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, The Journal of Literature and the Arts, and Shakespeare Bulletin. JOHN O'CONNOR is a Senior Visiting Lecturer for Cornell University, USA. He is Editor of the UK Longman School Shakespeare series and author of Shakespearean Afterlives.