Alan B. Farmer‘s research focuses on Shakespeare and early modern drama, the history of the book, England in the 1630s, seventeenth-century news and religious politics. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, early modern printed news and the early modern English book trade. With Adam Zucker, Farmer co-edited Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642 (Palgrave, 2006). And with Zachary Lesser in 2007, Farmer co-created DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, an online searchable database of all printed plays from the early sixteenth century to 1660. Farmer is currently working on two book projects: a study of playbooks, newsbooks, and the politics of the Thirty Years’ War in early modern England and, with Zachary Lesser, a revisionist study of print popularity, entitled Print, Plays, and Popularity in Shakespeare’s England.
Samuel Lemley is Curator of Special Collections at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Director of the Posner Center for Special Collections. His research and teaching focus on bibliography, book history, Shakespeare studies, and the history of information technologies. He has published scholarship in journals including Shakespeare Quarterly, The Library, and Studies in Bibliography. Recent projects include an edited volume entitled Shakespeare’s Four Folios (Penn State University Press, 2024) and Shakespeare exhibitions at Carnegie Mellon University and the Frick Pittsburgh.