Peter Holland

Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote the entry on Shakespeare in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (December 2004)

From the Review

December 16, 2004: Mystery Man

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

April 11, 2002: Ghosts

Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt

April 9, 1998: Culture Ho!

The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer

June 12, 1997: Maid, Man, and Jew

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England by Steven Orgel

Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro

October 19, 1995: Not Having It All

Mrs. Jordan's Profession:The Actress and the Prince by Claire Tomalin

Books by Peter Holland

English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990's (1997)
The Ornament of Action: Text and Performance in Restoration Comedy (1979)