Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time

Roslyn L. Knutson, Emerita Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is the author of Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time (CUP 2001) and The Repertory of Shakespeare's Company, 1594-1613 (U of Ark P 1991). A pioneer in the field of repertory studies, she has published essays on playhouse commerce in numerous journals, annuals, and collections. She has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America (2003-5), president of the Marlowe Society of America (2008-11), and editorial board member of Shakespeare Quarterly (2011-16). An on-going project is the wiki-style database, Lost Plays Database, which she co-edits with David McInnis (University of Melbourne) and Matthew Steggle (University of Bristol). David McInnis is the Gerry Higgins Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2013), co-editor of Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England (Palgrave, 2014; co-edited with Matthew Steggle), and is currently editing Dekker's Old Fortunatus for the Revels Plays series. With Roslyn L. Knutson and Matthew Steggle, he is founder and co-editor of the Lost Plays Database. Matthew Steggle is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University. His publications include editions of early modern plays for Richard Brome Online (2010); The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson (2012); and The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition (2015). He co-edited, with David McInnis, Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England (Palgrave, 2014). His most recent book is Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England: Ten Case Studies (2015). With Martin Butler, he is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Works of John Marston (forthcoming, 2020) for which he is editing Jack Drum's Entertainment, and he is co-editor, with Roslyn L. Knutson and David McInnis, of the Lost Plays Database http://www.lostplays.org.