Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of a number of studies of early modern literature, culture and history, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), Lying in Early Modern English Culture from the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance (2017), and Literature and Class from the Peasants Revolt to the French Revolution (2021). A new edition of Amazons, Savages and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630, edited with Mat Dimmock, appeared in 2022.