Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre and is Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He has served as the Director of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon and is editor of Shakespeare Survey and General Editor (with Stanley Wells) of Oxford Shakespeare Topics.Contributors: Michael Dobson (University of Birmingham, UK), Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame, USA), Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK) and Peter Thomson (University of Exeter, UK).