Peter Holland

McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Department Chair

Degrees

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Research Profile

Holland was Judith E Wilson Reader in Drama and Theatre at the University of Cambridge (1996-7) and Director of the Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham (1997-2002) before coming to Notre Dame. His study of Restoration comedy in performance, The Ornament of Action, appeared in 1979. Subsequent work has concentrated on Shakespeare in performance (including English Shakespeares (1997)) and on editing Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford, 1994) and six plays in the new Pelican Shakespeare (2002)). He is editor of Shakespeare Survey, general editor (with Stanley Wells) of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series (12 volumes to date), series editor of Redefining British Theatre History (five volumes, Palgrave) and general editor (with Adrian Poole) of Great Shakespeareans (18 vols planned, Continuum Books). His article on "William Shakespeare" is the longest entry in the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Other interests include David Garrick, recent British drama, performance theory, and English pantomimes. In 2006-07 he is Vice-President and President-elect of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Contact Information

210 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
631-0390
pholland@nd.edu