Tom Pettitt is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark, where he lectures on late-medieval and early-modern literature and culture, as well as more recent folk traditions, within the undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in English Studies. He is also associated with the university’s Centre for Medieval Studies. His research, which also encompasses European traditions, explores the triangular cultural continuum between literature, theatre and folklore, and he has published studies of mummers’ plays, charivaries and other customs, medieval drama and pageantry, ballads, contemporary legends, and folk elements in the plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare.