Ilona Bell is Clarke Professor of English Emerita at Williams College. She is the author of Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship (1998) and Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch (2010). Her edited works include John Donne: Selected Poems (2006) and John Donne: Collected Poetry (2012).
Steven W. May is adjunct Professor of English at Emory University. His books include The Elizabethan Courtier Poets (1991), Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works (2004), Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559–1603 (2004), and with Alan Bryson, Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland (2016).