About the Author

Tarnya Cooper is Sixteenth-Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Trustees of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Emeritus Professor on Shakespeare Studies at Birmingham University. James Shapiro is Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of "1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare." Marcia Pointon is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, Visiting Professor, Birbek College, University of London, and Hon. Research Fellow, Courtauld Institute.