Andrew James Hartley is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. He is the co-editor of Shakespeare and Geek Culture (The Arden Shakespeare, 2020), editor of Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016), author of Shakespeare and Political Theatre in Practice (2013) and The Shakespearean Dramaturg (2005). He was the editor of the Shakespeare Bulletin for a decade, resident dramaturg for Georgia Shakespeare and is an honorary fellow of the University of Central Lancashire, UK.