JAMES SHAPIRO is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. He the author of Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare (1991); Shakespeare and the Jews (1996); Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play(2000); 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005), which was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for the best non-fiction book published in Britain;Contested Will (2010), which was awarded the Theater Library Association’s George Freedley Memorial Award; and has edited an Ireland & Shakespeare Symposium anthology on Shakespeare in America for the Library of America (2014). His 3-hour documentary on late Shakespeare--”The King and the Playwright”--aired on BBC4 in 2012 and his “The Mysterious Mr. Webster” on BBC2 in 2014. His most recent book is The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 (2015). His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Bookforum, and Financial Times. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and The New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Folger Shakespeare Library, as well as the Board of Directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is currently the Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at the Public Theater in New York City.

CLAIR WILLS is the Leonard L. Milberg ‘53 Professor of Irish Letters, professor of English and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton. Wills formerly taught at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Essex. A co-editor of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions (2002), she has written five books, including Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (1994), That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland During the Second World War (2007), and Dublin March 4 & 5, 2016 1916: the Siege of the GPO (2009). She won the International PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for That Neutral Island. Her most recent study, The Best Are Leaving published by Cambridge University Press, examines the literature and culture of post-war Princeton University Irish emigration to Britain. Her reviews have appeared in The Irish Times, Times Literary James M. Stewart ’32 Theater Supplement and London Review of Books. at 185 Nassau Street

MICHAEL WOOD is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Wood studied French and German at Cambridge University, and has taught at Columbia University and at the University of Exeter in the U.K. He has written books on Vladimir Nabokov, Luis Buñuel, Franz Kafka and Gabriel García Márquez, as well as The Road to Delphi, a study of the ancient and continuing allure of oracles. Among his other books are America in the Movies and Children of Silence. A member of the American Philosophical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books, and writes frequently for other journals too. At Princeton he teaches mainly contemporary fiction, modern poetry, and the theory and history of criticism, and he is on the Advisory Committee for the Princeton Fund for Irish Studies. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. Upcoming Fund for Irish Studies Events " To Ireland, I..." 3/25 Matthew Campbell on “Volunteer Poetics: Irish and British Poetry in 1916” 4/8 Anne Enright, reading from her new novel The Green Road. fis.princeton.edu Symposium Schedule FRIDAY, MARCH 4 4:30 P.M. Keynote lecture on “Shakespeare and Ireland” e are delighted to welcome you to a symposium James Shapiro on Ireland and Shakespeare, in celebration introduced by Michael Wood; reception following of Shakespeare 400. We hope this symposium SATURDAY, MARCH 5 will be an opportunity for us to think not only 9:00 A.M. Coffee/tea and bottled water available in lobby about Shakespeare’s take on Ireland, but also about 9:15 A.M. Welcome and Introduction Ireland’s take on Shakespeare. We are fortunate 9.30 - 11:00 A.M. Panel: Staging Shakespeare in Ireland to have with us some of Ireland’s leading directors, moderated by Fintan O’Toole actors and scholars to lead and shape our debates Panelists: Garry Hynes, Barry McGovern, Conall Morrison, Lynne Parker, and Owen Roe and we encourage you to take part. 11:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. BREAK 11:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Screening of filmMickey B, directed by — Clair Wills, Princeton Fund for Irish Studies, and Tom Magill. An adaptation of Macbeth set in Katherine Hennessey, Global Shakespeare a maximum security prison in Northern Ireland, the film will be introduced by Mark Burnett 1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. BREAK 2:00 - 3:30 P.M. Debating Shakespeare in Ireland moderated by Bradin Cormack: • “Shakespeare, Film, and Northern Ireland” Mark Burnett • “ ‘We don’t produce foreign playwrights’- Shakespeare on (and off) the contemporary Irish stage” Patrick Lonegran • “ ‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?’ Irish and Global Shakespeares Katherine Hennessey 3.30 - 4:00 P.M. BREAK 4:00 - 5:30 P.M. Performing Shakespeare in Ireland moderated by Robert Sandberg with Participants: Garry Hynes, Barry McGovern, The Ireland & Shakespeare Symposium is presented by Princeton University’s Fund Conall Morrison, Lynne Parker, and Owen Roe for Irish Studies and the Lewis Center for the Arts with support provided by the English Department, Lewis Center Performance Central, the David A. Gardner ’69 5.30 P.M. Concluding Remarks Magic Project in the Council of the Humanities, and Global Shakespeare Michael Wood KATHERINE HENNESSEY is a Research Fellow with the Global Shakespeare program at the University of Warwick and Queen Mary University of London. She holds Participants a PhD in English and Irish Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and is currently researching the production aesthetics of the Gate and the Abbey Theatres’ 20th and 21st MARK BURNETT is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen’s University, century performances of ancient Greek tragedy, medieval Irish epic, and Shakespeare. Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Her academic interests range from contemporary Irish theatre to Middle Eastern drama. Culture: Authority and Obedience (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), Constructing ‘Monsters’ From 2009 to mid-2014 she lived in Sana’a, Yemen, researching and writing about the in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), Filming history of the performing arts in Yemen and the Gulf. Prior to that she served as an Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007; 2nd ed. 2013) and Assistant Professor in the English Department of Bethlehem University on the Palestinian Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), the West Bank. She is the author of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula, forthcoming from co-author of Great Shakespeareans: Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli (London and Palgrave in 2016. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), the editor of The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe (London: Dent, 1999) and The Complete Poems of Christopher Marlowe(London: GARRY HYNES founded Druid Theatre Company in 1975 and has worked as its Everyman, 2000), and the co-editor of New Essays on ‘Hamlet’ (New York: AMS Press, Artistic Director from 1975 to 1991, and from 1995 to date. From 1991 to 1994 she 1994), Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), Shakespeare, Film, Fin de was Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Internationally, she has worked with Siècle (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Oxford University The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Royal Court (UK), and with Second Stage and Press, 2005), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), Manhattan Theater Club in New York; with The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C; Filming and Performing Renaissance History (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011) and The Edinburgh Companion to for Center Theater in Los Angeles and with the Spoleto Festival (USA). Awards include a Shakespeare and the Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011). Currently he is writing a study of Hamlet Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane(1998), the Joe A. Callaway and world cinema for Cambridge University Press. Award for Outstanding Direction for The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (2009), a Special Tribute Award for her contribution to Irish Theatre (2005), and Best BRADIN CORMACK is a professor in the English Department at Princeton Director at UK Theatre Awards 2012. In December 2010, She was appointed Adjunct University. He studies early modern and Renaissance literature, with a focus on poetry Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at her alma mater, NUI Galway. and drama as they relate to law, the bookish disciplines, and intellectual culture more generally. His first book,A Power to Do Justice (Chicago, 2007), considers how writers PATRICK LONERGAN is a Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI including Skelton, Wyatt, More, Spenser, and Shakespeare addressed the principle Galway. His research is on contemporary Irish drama, Shakespeare and Ireland, theatre and practice of jurisdiction at a time when the central law courts were consolidating and social media, and globalization and performance. Publications include Theatre and the common law’s institutional identity in relation to the state and its subjects. With Globalization (Winner of the 2008 Theatre Book Prize) andThe Theatre and Films of Richard Strier and Martha Nussbaum, he has recently edited Shakespeare and the Law: Martin McDonagh (2012). He is director of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project, an A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions (Chicago, 2013); and with Leonard Executive member of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Barkan and Sean Keilen, he edited The Forms of Renaissance Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, and a Board Member of Baboro International Arts Festival for Children. He currently 2009). Most recently, he has been writing on the philosophical dimensions of early modern poetry and drama. supervises PhDs on Enda Walsh, the Amateur Drama Movement in Ireland, Shakespeare A new book, Shakespeare’s Substance: Being in the Sonnets, places the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare’s sonnets in and Irish theatre, JM Synge and Zora Neale Hurston, the Gate Theatre, and space the grammatical and logical culture of the late sixteenth century, so as to read the poems as experiments in in Synge, Beckett and Friel. He is also the academic editor of Abbey Theatre Archive erotic philosophy at the boundary of ethics and ontology. He is also writing a short book on Shakespeare and Digitization Project, a major digitization project involving over 1 million documents including scripts, designs, Law, towards which he has published essays on the shape of legal possession and legal sovereignty in Shakespeare video, and audio. Quarterly, Shakespeare, and Law and Humanities. In addition to a range of courses on Renaissance literature, he teaches on Utopianism, poetry and poetics, and media studies. BARRY MCGOVERN is an actor who has appeared in eight productions of The Trojan Women, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Tartuffe, The Shape of Metal(Abbey Theatre); The Drawer Boy (Galway Shakespeare’s plays. A former member of the RTE Players and the Abbey Theatre Arts Festival); Lovers (Druid); Bernard Alba, Me and My Friend (Charabanc); Catchpenny Twist (Tinderbox); company, in recent years he has mainly been associated with the Gate Theatre, especially Bold Girls (7:84 Scotland); The Shadow of a Gunman(Gate Theatre); The Clearing(Bush Theatre); Playboy of the their various Beckett productions in which he has played in Waiting for Godot, Endgame Western World, Silver Tassie (Almeida Theatre);Playhouse Creatures (Old Vic); Importance of Being Earnest (West and Happy Days, and two one-man shows I’ll Go On and Watt. A graduate of University Yorkshire Playhouse); Love Me?! (Corn Exchange); Comedy of Errors (RSC); Olga, Shimmer (Traverse Theatre); College Dublin, he has taught at the University of California at Davis and has spent Only the Lonely (Birmingham Rep); La Voix Humaine (Opera Theatre Company);A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera the recent fall semester teaching at Notre Dame. In 1998 he was awarded an honorary Ireland); The Drunkard, Benefactors(B*spoke); The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly (The Ark/Theatre Lovett); Doctorate in Letters from Trinity College Dublin. Later this month he travels to Los Macbeth (Lyric Theatre Belfast);The Cunning Little Vixen, Albert Herring(RIAM). Most recently, Seamus Heaney’s Angeles to rehearse and play in his fifth production ofEndgame . Beowulf (Tron Theatre, Glasgow), Stewart Parker’sNorthern Star and The Provok’d Wife by John Vanbrugh (The Lir Academy). She was an Associate Artist of Charabanc Theatre Company. She was awarded the Irish Times Special CONALL MORRISON is a Dublin-based director and writer. As a director, he Tribute Award in 2008 and an Honorary Doctorate by Trinity College Dublin in 2010. has worked for companies such as the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Storytellers Theatre Company, Dublin; and Bickerstaffe Theatre Company, Kilkenny. OWEN ROE is an Irish actor last seen on stage as an aging Romeo in a re-imagining His productions include The Bacchae of Baghdad(an adaptation of Euripides’s play set in of Romeo & Juliet by Ben Power at The Project Theatre in Dublin. Prior to that he played the Iraq War), The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet (a co-production with the Lyric the eponymous role in King Lear (Best Actor Nominee – Irish Times Theatre Awards) Theatre, Belfast), his own adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’sTarry Flynn, (also at Lyttleton at The Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre, both productions directed by Selina theatre, Royal National Theatre), Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn (also Lyttleton Theatre), Cartmell. He has also performed as Titus in Titus Andronicus, Iago in Othello, and as The Freedom of the City, The Tempest, The House, A Whistle in the Dark, Ariel, The Marlboro Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew directed by Lynne Parker – which won him an Irish Man, Emma, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Kvetch and his own adaptation of Antigone. Times Theatre Award for Best Actor. Other productions include; Frank Hardy in Brian His production of the musical Ludwig II ran at the Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein, Friel’s Faith Healer, as Shelly Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross directed by Doug Hughes, Big Germany for two years. Most recently, he directed La Traviata for the English National Opera and The Taming of Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Mark Brokaw, God of Carnage, Festen, Vanya The Shrew for the Royal Shakespeare Company. in Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard and as Hamm in Endgame (which toured the USA in 2012) all at The Gate Theatre in Dublin. On television, Owen is currently appearing as Count Odo in the hit FINTAN O’TOOLE is a professor in the Program in Theater at Princeton series, Vikings. Other TV work includes; Penny Dreadful, Ballykissangel, Titanic: Blood and Steel, The Ambassador, University and one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals. He has served as a drama Prosperity directed by Lenny Abrahamson, Ice Cream Girls and in the new series of Undercover for the BBC, critic for The Irish Times, New York Daily News, Sunday Tribune (Dublin), and In Dublin due to be screened this year. Film work includes; as Arthur Griffith inMichael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan, Magazine. His books on theater span a wide range of topics, from his biography of Intermission, Breakfast on Pluto, Wide Open Spaces, Pride and Joy, Sensation and as Mr. King in the recent gangster Richard Brinsley Sheridan to whatever is now appearing on Irish stages. He is currently thriller, Pursuit. Assistant Editor, columnist and feature writer for The Irish Times. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Granta, The Guardian, The Observer, ROBERT SANDBERG has been teaching playwriting, acting, and dramatic and other international publications. In 2011, O’Toole was named one of “Britain’s top literature at Princeton since 1995 and received the President’s Distinguished Teaching 300 intellectuals” by The Observer. He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Award in 2014. His plays have been seen in Australia, Canada, England, Japan, Panama, Contribution to Irish Journalism, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award, and Journalist and South Korea as well at U.S. theaters such as the Barter, Dallas Children’s Theater, of the Year in 2010 from TV3 Media Awards. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Intiman, La Mama, Providence Black Rep, Stages Repertory Theatre and Yale Cabaret. He has been commissioned by, among others, McCarter LYNNE PARKER is Artistic Director and co-founder of Rough Magic. Theatre, Metro Theater Company, and on four occasions, Seattle Children’s Theatre. Productions for Rough Magic include: The House Keeper (Irish Times Best New Play Recent work includes Roundelay at Passage Theatre; IRL: In Real Life for George Street 2012), The Critic, Travesties, Peer Gynt, Phaedra, Don Carlos (Irish Times Best Production Playhouse; Convivencia developed with Playwrights Theatre of NJ and The Growing 2007), The Taming of the Shrew(Best Production 2006), Improbable Frequency (Best Stage; What Can’t Be Seen, developed at the Provincetown Playhouse; and The Judgment of Production, Best Director, 2004), Copenhagen (Best Production 2002), Sodome, my love, Bett, part of the Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices in conjunction with the American Repertory Theatre. Three days of Rain, The Sugar Wife, Spokesong, Pentecost, Northern Star, Hidden Charges, His plays are published by Playscripts and Dramatic Publishing, and have been supported by the Geraldine Down Onto Blue, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Digging for Fire, Love and a Bottle (Bank of R. Dodge Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group and many state Ireland/Arts Show Award), Danti-Dan, New Morning, I Can’t Get Started, The Way of the and local arts commissions. In addition to his playwriting, Sandberg has directed Greek tragedy, comic opera, World, The Country Wife, Decadence,and Top Girls. Most recently the world premiere of Brecht, Chekhov and contemporary plays by writers as different as Lewis Black, Anna Deavere Smith and Wendy Hilary Fannin’s Famished Castle and The Train, a new musical by Arthur Riordan and Bill Wasserstein. Whelan. Other theatre includes – Heavenly Bodies, (Best Director, 2004), The Sanctuary Lamp, Down the Line,