Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books. Jane Lawson is the editor of The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges, 1558-1603 (Oxford University Press). She is a Coordinator at Emory University's Vaccine Center, USA.