Gallery Stroll: Shakespeare with Peter Holland
Schedule
Sat Aug 30 2025 at 01:00 pm to 01:45 pm
UTC-04:00Location
100 St. André Way, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Indiana 46556 | Notre Dame, IN
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When Artists Meet ShakespeareIt was in 1709 when the first encounters between artists and Shakespeare plays began. Initially, the images were illustrations for editions. Later, they started to separate from the texts, showing actors in performance and then scenes from the plays re-imagined by artists without reference to performance. This gallery stroll will look at multiple works in the Museum, but will especially highlight the prints of King Lear and Cordelia by eighteenth-century Irish artist, James Barry, in order to see the range that such encounters between Shakespeare and artists have generated and to consider the artistic afterlives of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays.
Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, Notre Dame. His current research project is an edition of King Lear for the Arden Shakespeare 4th series, the world's premier scholarly edition, for which he also serves as one of the three general editors.
Meet at the Welcome Desk. All are welcome and no registration is required. Gallery stools are available.
James Barry (Irish, 1741 - 1806), King Lear and Cordelia, 1776/ca. 1790, Etching with engraving in black ink on laid paper. Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Terry and Margaret Stent Fund, 2015.001.001
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