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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)

Mystery Man

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

by Stephen Greenblatt

December 16, 2004 issue

Ghosts

Hamlet in Purgatory

by Stephen Greenblatt

April 11, 2002 issue

Culture Ho!

The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

by John Brewer

April 9, 1998 issue

Maid, Man, and Jew

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

by Steven Orgel

Shakespeare and the Jews

by James Shapiro

June 12, 1997 issue

Not Having It All

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

by Claire Tomalin

October 19, 1995 issue

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