Patrick Cheney, professor of English and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, is an editor of Comparative Literature Studies the author of Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a literary Career (1993) and Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-nationhood, and coeditor of Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (1999). He is currently president of the International Spenser Society.

Anne Lake Prescott is Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of English at Barnard College. The author of French Poets and the English Renaissance (1978) and Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England (1998), she is coeditor, with Hugh Maclean, of the Norton edition of Spenser's poetry (1993) and, with Thomas Roche and William Oram, of Spenser Studies. Her current interests include giants and the figure of David in the Renaissance.