Alexander Samson is a Professor of Early Modern Studies at University College London. His research interests include the earlycolonial history of the Americas, Anglo-Spanish intercultural interactions andearly modern English and Spanish drama. He has edited volumes on The SpanishMatch: Prince Charles’s Journey to Madrid, 1623 (Ashgate, 2006), withJonathan Thacker A Companion to Lope de Vega (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008)and Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horitculture in the Renaissance, a monographicSpecial Issue of Renaisance Studies (2012), as well as having publishedarticles on the marriage of Philip II and Mary Tudor, historiography and royalchroniclers in 16^th century Spain, English travel writers, firearms,maps, John Fletcher and Cervantes, and female Golden Age dramatists. His book Maryand Philip: the Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain was published by Manchester University Press. An edition of Lope de Vega’s Lo fingidoverdadero also with Manchester and James Mabbe’s Exemplary Novelswith Modern Humanities Research Assocation are in progress. He runs the GoldenAge and Renaissance Research Seminar and is director of UCL’s Centre for EarlyModern Exchanges and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.