Joseph Harris is Professor of Early Modern French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, specialising in early modern theatre. His research areas have included: spectatorship and psychology; gender and cross-dressing; misanthropy; and Shakespeare reception in France. He is the author, among other things, of Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France (OUP, 2014) and Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller (OUP, 2022). For the MHRA Critical Texts series he has edited a number of eighteenth-century reworkings of seventeenth-century plays, including Le Misanthrope, Timon of Athens, and most recently Hamlet. During his time as a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford he is hoping to finish a monograph on death and violence in the works of Pierre Corneille.