The Sunday Scholars Series is a a
one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on
the themes and issues of the play. Panelists for the
November 20th Scholar Series will be:
Mary Beth Rose
Mary Beth Rose is professor of English and director
of the Institute for the Humanities at the University
of Illinois at Chicago. Her interests are in English
Renaissance drama and gender studies. She is the author
most recently of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern
English Drama and co-editor of Elizabeth I: Collected
Works, both published by the University of Chicago
Press.
Robert Bireley, S.J.
Robert Bireley, S.J., is professor of history at Loyola
University Chicago, specializing in European history,
early modern Catholicism, and the Thirty Years War.
He is the author of many books, including The Jesuits
and the Thirty Years War, The Refashioning of Catholicism
1450-1700 and The Counter-Reformation Prince, as well
as a number of articles on early modern European history.
Charles M. Chadd
Charles Chadd is a retired lawyer who has turned to
writing history. He has extensive knowledge of Sir
Thomas More’s life and conviction for treason
due to More’s refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII’s
new-found supremacy. Chadd’s manuscript is called
No Pope in England: How Henry VIII's Lawyers Gave
Power To The People, and it relates the events leading
up to and following England's Act of Supremacy of
1534.
