THE ALBERT HAMILTON HOLT LECTURE SERIES

Ralph Cohen is professor of English at James Madison University where he teaches courses in Shakespeare and film. He is a frequent reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library where in 1987 he was a participant in the Folger Institute's seminar on Shakespeare in Performance, directed by Michael Goldman. Cohen is also co-founder and executive director of the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express. In the summer of 1992, using the company as a tool to help develop classroom skills, he directed a VFH- sponsored workshop called "Bringing Shakespeare Home" for Virginia's high school teachers. He was guest editor of the Summer 1990 Shakespeare Quarterly devoted to teaching Shakespeare and edited another issue on that subject in 1995.

Herb R. Coursen is director of education for the International Shakespeare Globe Centre. His books on Shakespeare include Christian Ritual and the World of Shakespeare's Tragedies, Shakespeare on TV (with James Bulman), A Jungian Approach to Shakespeare, The Leasing Out of England: Shakespeare's Henriad<\i> and Watching Shakespeare on TV<\i>. His baseball novel entitled The Outfielder<\i> was published in 1992. Professor Coursen has published 14 books of poetry, for which he has won many honors including the New England Poetry Club Award, the Percy Bysshe Shelley Lifetime Achievement Award and the 1992 Poet Magazine Award.

Charles Frey is professor of English at the University of Washington. After a successful law practice, Frey attended Yale Graduate School and earned his Ph.D. in English in 1971. He wrote his dissertation on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale<\i> under the direction of Maynard Mack. For the past 20 years, Professor Frey has taught English at the University of Washington and has published books and articles on Shakespeare, Beowulf, Renaissance lyric and drama, and children's literature. His current research centers on developing methods of reading and teaching literature to enhance psychosomatic or body-mind responses.

Carol Neely is professor of English and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays<\i>, co-editor of The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare<\i>, and has published many essays on Shakespeare, Renaissance sonnet sequences and feminist literary theory in journals such as Shakespeare Studies<\i> and The Shakespeare Quarterly<\i>. She is a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America and past chair of the Shakespeare Division of the Modern Language Association of America. During the summer of 1992, she took part in a seminar on "Shakespeare, Gender and Cultural Difference" at the Fifth World Shakespeare Congress in Tokyo, Japan,

Jeanne Addison Roberts is a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America and is a professor of literature emeritus at the American University in Washington, D.C. Author of The Shakespearean Wild: Geography, Genus, and Gender<\i> (Nebraska, 1991), Shakespeare's English Comedy: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in Context<\i> (Nebraska, 1979), and co-author of A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare<\i> (Virginia, 1975), she has also published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies<\i> and Shakespeare Survey<\i> as well as other journals.