Katherine Heavey Editor

Katherine Heavey was a lecturer in early modern literature at the University of Glasgow, UK, where her research interests lay in early modern translation, reception and adaptation of classical myth. Her publications include The Early Modern Medea: Medea in English Literature 1558-1688 (2015). Janice Valls-Russell is a retired Principal research associate of France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Era and the Enlightenment (IRCL), a joint research unit of CNRS and University Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France. Her research interests lie in the early modern reception of the classics, and classical mythology, and 20th- and 21st-century adaptations of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The author of several articles, she co-edited Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (2017), Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition (2022) and Shakespeare's Others in 21st-Century European Performance: The Merchant of Venice and Othello (The Arden Shakespeare, 2022).