Robert Sawyer is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he teaches Shakespeare, Victorian Literature, and Literary Criticism. Author ofVictorian Appropriations of Shakespeare(Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003), he is co-editor ofShakespeare and Appropriation(Routledge, 1999), andHarold Bloom’s Shakespeare(Palgrave, 2001). His book entitledMarlowe and Shakespeare: The Critical Rivalrywas published by Palgrave in 2017, and his recent work,Shakespeare Between the World Warswas also published by Palgrave in 2019. His essay on “Shakespeare and Refugees” will be published in theShakespearean International Yearbookin 2020.