Holger Schott Syme

Holger Syme is a scholar and teacher of theatre history and dramatic literature, with particular expertise in early modern English theatre and modern and contemporary European performing arts. He has published widely on early modern theatre and drama, including his first book, Theatre and Testimony in Shakespeare’s England, a co-edited collection on the Queen’s Men, the theatre-historical introduction in the most recent edition of the Norton Shakespeare, and essays in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, The Review of English Studies, and many edited collections. For the Norton Shakespeare, he also edited Edward III and The Book of Sir Thomas More. His most recent publication is a short book on questions of authorship attribution and theatre history, tracing the connections between Shakespeare and The Spanish Tragedy.

For most of the past decade, his research has been focussed on modern productions of old plays, and he is working on a major book project about "Shakespeare in Berlin, 1920-2020,” based on extensive original archival work in Germany, the UK, and the United States.