​Graham Holderness is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield in the United Kingdom. He is a renowned dramatist, novelist, poet and critic. Both as an author or editor, Professor Holderness pub​lished more than 40 books, largely on Shakespeare. His articles on Shakespeare criticism and theory were published in elite journals in the discipline. Professor Holderness is one of the founders of British Cultural Materialism, ​and a pioneer of critical-creative writing. Professor Holderness has written extensively about contemporary television and film adaptations of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories. Most interestingly, Professor Holderness has published several  studies about  Arabic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. He is well-known for editing The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy: The Al-Hamlet Summit; Richard III, an Arab Tra​​gedy; The Speaker’s Progress by the Kuwaiti- British dramatist and theatre director Sulayman Al Bassam (2014). Professor Holderness’s novel The Prince of Denmark was published in 2001; his poetry collection “Craeft” received a Poetry Book Society award in 2002; and his play Wholly Writ (2011) was performed at Shakespeare's Globe, and by the Royal Shakespeare Company actors in Stratford-upon-Avon. His most recent book The Faith of William Shakespeare was published in 2016.​