Roundtable

Speaking of Shakespeare
With Peter Holland of the
University of Notre Dame

Monday, June 20
8:00 PM

As Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, Peter Holland oversees a highly regarded Shakespeare festival and administers Actors From The London Stage, a touring educational program that has transformed the teaching of dramatic literature in the United States. Professor Holland is admired around the world for his work as Editor of Shakespeare Survey. He co-edits Oxford Shakespeare Topics, a widely used reference collection with 20 volumes now in print, and Great Shakespeareans, an 18-volume set from Bloomsbury. For years Dr. Holland directed the Shakespeare Institute, a Stratford-based program under the auspices of the University of Birmingham, and in that capacity he presided over the biennial International Shakespeare Conference. Meanwhile, audiences at London’s National Theatre have long enjoyed his lucid program notes for productions under the aegis of artistic director Nicholas Hytner, who studied under Dr. Holland at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Holland’s acclaimed scholarly editions of the plays include A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Oxford Shakespeare series and Coriolanus for the Arden Shakespeare’s third series. His many book-length titles include The Ornament of Action, Rethinking British Theatre History, and English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s. We hope you’ll join Dr. Holland and John Andrews for a memorable Shakespeare 400 conversation about the playwright’s life and legacy.