Edited by Christopher R. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, University of Hull, and Edited by Mervyn Cooke, Professor of Music, University of Nottingham

Christopher R. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Hull. He was the UK Research Associate for the Shakespeare Music Catalogue and wrote the Shakespeare entries for Grove Opera and Grove Music. His dictionary (with Michela Calore) Music in Shakespeare, first published in 2005, has been reissued in its third impression as one of the Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries (2014). His book Shakespeare's Musical Imagery (2011) investigates categories and thematics in musical metaphor and contextual reference throughout the plays and poems. His database of music in Shakespeare is available at www.shakespearemusic.bham.ac.uk under the auspices of the Shakespeare Institute.

Mervyn Cooke is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham. For six years, he was Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His books include Britten and the Far East (1998), four co-edited volumes of Britten's correspondence (2004–12), handbooks on the same composer's Billy Budd and War Requiem (1993 and 1996), and two illustrated histories of jazz (1998 and 2013). He has edited and co-edited four titles in the Cambridge Companions series, devoted to Britten, twentieth-century opera, jazz, and film music. He is the author of A History of Film Music (2008) and editor of The Hollywood Film Music Reader (2010), and his most recent monograph is Pat Metheny : The ECM Years, 1975-1984 (2017). He is also Series Editor for the online publishing platform Cambridge Elements in Music Since 1945.

Michelle Assay, Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Huddersfield

Linda Phyllis Austern, Associate Professor of Musicology and Faculty Affiliate in British Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University

Bill Barclay, Artistic Director, Concert Theatre Works

Leah Broad, Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford

Val Brodie trained as a musician and was Director of Music at Rugby College for many years before pursuing freelance work across a wide spectrum of music and the arts. She has lectured on music in performances of Shakespeare across the UK and gave a lecture recital on nineteenth-century theatre music as part of a conference at Shakespeare's Globe, London in 2013. She contributed a chapter to Shakespeare, Music and Performance (2017) and was in 1997 awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to music education.

Philip Ross Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music, University of Oxford

Jan Butler, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, Oxford Brookes University

Mervyn Cooke, Professor of Music, University of Nottingham

John Cunningham, Reader at the School of Music, Drama, and Performance, Bangor University

Pavel Drábek, Professor of Drama and Theatre Practice, University of Hull

Ross W. Duffin, Distinguished University Professor and Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University

Fiona Ford, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Ben Francis completed his PhD on the work of Stephen Sondheim at Goldsmiths College, London, and has published essays in The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies, The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical, and Musicology Research. He wrote the first full-length study of Christopher Hampton: Christopher Hampton: Dramatic Ironist (1996).

William Germano, Professor of English Literature, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York

Michael Graham, Welsh National Opera

Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Professor and Head of the School of Creative Arts, Performance, and Visual Cultures, University of Warwick

Adam Hansen, Senior Lecturer in English, Northumbria University

Florence Hazrat, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Sheffield

Brian Hoyle, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Dundee

Nancy Isenberg, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Rome Three University

Timothy Koozin, Professor and Division Chair of Music Theory, University of Houston

Jirí Kopecký, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Palacký University

Sárka Havlicková Kysová, Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

Katherine R. Larson, Professor of English, University of Toronto

Lucy Munro, Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, King's College London

Pam Waddington Muse Fellow in Voice, Trinity College of Music

Joseph M. Ortiz, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at El Paso

Nina Penner, Assistant Professor of Music, Brock University

Michael V. Pisani, who died in 2019, was Professor of Music at Vassar College

David Roberts, Professor of English, Birmingham City University and Fellow, English Association

Amy Rodgers, Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Media, and Theater, Mount Holyoke College

Julian Rushton, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds

Annette Simonis, Professor of Comparative Literature and German Literature, University of Giessen

Klára Skrobánková, Department of Theatre Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

Simon Smith, Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and the Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham

Adrian Streete, Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow

Howard Wilde, Fellow, University of Hull

Lawrence Wiliford, American-Canadian tenor and Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, Canadian Art Song Project

Christopher R. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Hull

Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Professor of Music History and Cultures, Syracuse University

Katrine K. Wong, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Macau