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Call for Papers: 2018 BSA Conference

Shakespeare Studies Today Queen’s University Belfast, 14-17 June 2018 (BSA2018@qub.ac.uk) [caption id="attachment_1753" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Image from The Belfast Tempest (dir. Andrea Montgomery, 2016), Terra Nova Productions. Courtesy of Neil Harrison (models Sean Brown and Louise Parker).[/caption] Shakespeare Studies is one... Read More...

A Review of Macbeth (dir. Kit Monkman, 2017)

By Alison Findlay (Lancaster University) and Ramona Wray (Queen’s University Belfast) Cast: Mark Rowley (Macbeth), Akiya Henry (Lady Macbeth), Al Weaver (Banquo) and Dai Bradley (Projectionist/Porter). Design: Kimie Nakano. Score: Gregory Spears. Adaptation: Judith Buchanan, Tom Mattinson and Kit Monkman.... Read More...

Report from the Living and Dying Well in the Early Modern World Conference

The BSA is proud to have sponsored the Living and Dying Well in the Early Modern World conference at the University of Exeter on 15th and 16th June 2017. The following report is by Bailey Sincox, a PhD student at... Read More...

£10 Amazon voucher offered in return for your participation in a study of Teaching Shakespeare’s impact

We are currently carrying out an evaluation of the impact of Teaching Shakespeare, the British Shakespeare Association magazine, which aims to provide support for Shakespeare educators across sectors. This evaluation is being carried out by the editor and founder of the magazine... Read More...

Reports from the Offensive Shakespeare Conference

The BSA is proud to have sponsored the Offensive Shakespeare Conference at Northumbria University on 23rd and 24th May 2017. The following reports were written by those who received BSA bursaries for the event: John Rowell Shauna O'Brien [caption id="attachment_1725"... Read More...

BSA Bulletin for June 2017

THE BSA BULLETIN – JUNE 2017 BSA election of new Trustees As several Trustees are now approaching the end of their terms of service, the Board of Trustees of the British Shakespeare Association wishes to appoint new Trustees to take... Read More...

Election of New Trustees

As several Trustees are now approaching the end of their terms of service, the Board of Trustees of the British Shakespeare Association wishes to appoint new Trustees to take up positions on the Board in September 2017. The position of... Read More...

Everyone’s a critic: a short course for graduate students at the University of York

By Sarah Olive Last week, I finished running a free short course I’d devised for graduate students at the University of York, regardless of discipline, for fun rather than credit. In the event, seven students came from programmes as wide-ranging... Read More...

Teaching Shakespeare 12 is out!

We are pleased to announce that the twelfth issue of Teaching Shakespeare and the first ever summer issue of the magazine, with articles on Shakespeare in Hanoi, on Shakespeare and autistic students, on young offenders and Othello, and on digitized promptbooks,... Read More...

Nominations Open for our 2018 Fellowships

An Invitation from the Chair of the BSA Fellowship Committee, Andrew Jarvis The British Shakespeare Association endows two Honorary Fellowships each year. This year, 2017, the Fellowships are to be given to Sarah Stanton – formerly Publisher of Shakespeare and... Read More...
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