The Young Company performs THE WITCH in front of the Golden Dome (2008). Photo by Peter Ringenberg
Mission
The mission of Shakespeare at Notre Dame is to establish Notre Dame nationally and internationally as a center for the study of Shakespeare in performance. The programs seeks to: (a) provide its undergraduates and graduates, the local community of South Bend and the wider region with opportunities to see Shakespeare productions, both professional and student, of the highest possible quality; (b) provide students with regular opportunities to perform Shakespeare both independent of and in collaboration with professional performers and directors, in order to provide students with a full range of experience of amateur and professional production in the course of the academic year; (c) educate students in the pleasures of watching Shakespeare (on stage and on film) so as to inculcate a life-time habit of seeing Shakespeare in performance; (d) provide courses at an undergraduate level and beyond, for students in all years of study and from the widest possible range of disciplines, to explore Shakespeare in performance; (e) support the full range of courses studying Shakespeare throughout the University; (f) provide at a master's and doctoral level, through MA/MFA and PhD courses, the opportunity for students to train both as scholar-critics and as theatre-workers through the study of Shakespeare in performance; and (g) support collection development in the University Library to support both doctoral work and advanced research by permanent and visiting Faculty.