Hannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, where she is also one of the founding members of the London Shakespeare Centre. She has published Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge, 2013) and the co-authored Shakespeare's London (2015). With Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems, co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016).