Setting the Scene

Leading scholars provide introductions to the evening play.

22 July King Lear Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame
Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies, in the Department of Film, TV and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. In 2007-8 he was President of the Shakespeare Association of America. Areas of recent teaching include Shakespeare in performance and film, and areas of recent research include Shakespeare texts and contemporary performance and Restoration comedy.
He was formerly the Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford- upon-Avon, and is currently finishing an edition of Coriolanus for the Arden Shakespeare.

29 July King Lear Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire
Graham Holderness is Professor of English at University of Hertfordshire. He has published and edited many critical books, textual editions, chapters and journal articles in literature, drama and theology, plus a novel and a poetry collection which won a Poetry Book Society award. His current research projects include Shakespeare in the Arab world (funded by AHRC).

5 August The Merry Wives of Windsor Nigel Wood, Loughborough University
12 August King Lear Tom Healy, Birkbeck, University of London
19 August The Merry Wives of Windsor Lois Potter, University of Delaware
26 August A Midsummer Night's Dream Juliet Dusinberre, University of Cambridge

9 September The Merry Wives of Windsor Michael Dobson, Birkbeck, University of London
16 September Timon of Athens Gretchen Minton, Montana State University
23 September A Midsummer Night's Dream Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe

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Tickets: £5 (£4 FoSG/concs), £3 students

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