Victoria Bladen teaches in literary studies and adaptation at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her publications include The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature (Routledge, 2022) ; seven Shakespearean text guides in the Insight (Melbourne) series, and five co-edited volumes. Yan Brailowsky is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris Nanterre. He has published widely on Shakespeare and early modern drama, notably on violence, gender, and language.