Chris Thurman is the Director of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre at Wits University, South Africa. He is the editor of Shakespeare in Southern Africa, president of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa and founder of Shakespeare ZA. He edited South African Essays on 'Universal' Shakespeare (2014).

Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her publications include Shakespeare in the Global South: Stories of Oceans Crossed in Contemporary Adaptation (The Arden Shakespeare, 2019) and The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (2015).