GAIL MARSHALL is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Actresses on the Victorian Stage (1998) and Victorian Fiction (2002), and the editor of George Eliot (2003). She is currently writing a monograph on the relationship between Victorian women and Shakespeare. ADRIAN POOLE is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. His books include Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (1987), Henry James (1991), and (co-edited with Jeremy Maule) The Ox