DEBORAH CARTMELL is Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor, Director of the Centre for Adaptations, and Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is founding editor of two journals, Shakespeare and Adaptation, and founder and first Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies. She is series editor of the Bloomsbury Adaptation Histories.

ASHLEY D. POLASEK is Instructor of English at Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, South Carolina, USA, and Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Adaptations at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is a member of the Association of Adaptation Studies, The Literature/Film Association, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.