Dr. Mary Maher discusses her book
" Actors Talk About Shakespeare"



Directions to the Hannon Library

DATE & TIME: Tuesday, November 17 at 4 pm

PLACE: Meese Meeting Room, Library 305

Cover of Actors Talk About ShakespeareDr. Maher's new book, "Actors Talk About Shakespeare," features interviews with Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Stacy Keach, and other well-known actors from the U.S., Canada, and Britain. The actor's process within a Shakespeare play is explored, and the book has been noted by "Playbill" as treasury of talents, tactics, and tales, mining the hearts and minds and experience of those who have performed Shakespeare on the stage and in film.

Dr. Mary Z. Maher, Professor Emerita of the University of Arizona, has taught award-winning Shakespeare courses in the U.S. and abroad, and worked on the BBC “The Shakespeare Plays” series. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters in her field, and is active in international Shakespeare associations. Maher moved to Dr. Mary MaherAshland in 2002, where she lectures at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and gives guest classes at SOU. Her previous book, “Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies” was chosen by the “Chronicle of Higher Education” as an Academic Book of the Month and praised on NPR's "All Things Considered."

This event on the SOU Ashland Campus is free and open to the public. Copies of Maher’s new book will be available for purchase at the reading. For further information, call Hannon Library at (541) 552-6835.

Photo of Mary Maher by Brad Eastburn