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Coriolanus at the Royal Shakespeare Company
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King John in Print and Performance
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Ithaca in Stratford-upon-Avon: A Tribute to Sir Derek Walcott, Second Instalment of Blog Series
By Miranda Jones, Research Advocate, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Although the final script of Derek Walcott’s The Odyssey was published in 1993, a performance of the play has not ...
Working on John Hall at The Shakespeare Centre.
By Oscar Lake This following post was written by fifteen-year-old Oscar Lake, who was on a work experience placement with Dr Paul Edmondson, Head of Research. He was based ...
Marie Corelli: Stratford-upon-Avon’s‘Fairy Queen’?
By Nick Birch In 1899 Marie Corelli, with her companion Bertha Van de Vyver, arrived in Stratford-upon-Avon. Marie Corelli was, by that time, the world’s most successful living author ...
Ithaca in Stratford-upon-Avon: A Tribute to Sir Derek Walcott.
By Miranda Jones, Research Advocate, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust In 1991 the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Adrian Noble, discussed the next potential project for the Stratford-upon-Avon stage ...
Salomé at the Swan
By Drs Sarah-Jane Fenton, Research Fellow, Mental Health & Wellbeing Unit, Warwick Medical School and Anjna Chouhan, Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. A Shakespearian Watching Owen Horsley’s Salomé at the ...
Before Shakespeare Conference, 24-27 August, University of Roehampton
By Callan Davies, Before Shakespeare We’re looking forward to a busy summer of Read Not Deads at Shakespeare’s Globe, a playreading marathon at the Shakespeare Institute, and workshops with The Dolphin’s ...
Design for Shakespeare across the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Collections
SBT Research Conversation, Wednesday 14 June By Ella Hawkins, Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) On Wednesday 14th June, I gave the third talk in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s ‘Research ...
Monologues not by Shakespeare
Monologues not by Shakespeare. Tr. Marlous Lange Peters. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij International Theatre and Film Books, with Het Vijfde Bedrijf, 2016. Review by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) As the title suggests, ...
SHAKESPEARE FOR FREEDOM
By Ewan Fernie, University of Birmingham, The Shakespeare Institute. I had the privilege the other week of launching my new book, Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter (Cambridge ...
