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and enjoyment of Shakespeare.
2nd February 2021
Launch of ‘Unprecedented’ ‘Unprecedented’ is a new video project hosted by Shakespeare Link and the Wet Mariners. Access the project launch announcement here and stay tuned for more content. Andrew Smith (Fleeting Year Films) on Hamlet A number of... Read More...
28th January 2021
BSA member Dr Ronan Hatfull shares news of upcoming conference leadership activities and reflects on conferencing during the pandemic. The buzz of conferences in the early days of my doctoral research at the University of Warwick was an integral reason... Read More...
25th January 2021
Congratulations to BSA member Dr Faith Acker on the publication of her first monograph, First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790 (Routledge, 2020). Read on to learn more from Dr Acker about her book and the process of adapting her doctoral... Read More...14th December 2020
The British Shakespeare Association endows two Honorary Fellowships each year. The 2020 awards, in honour of our postponed conference on ‘Shakespeare in Action’, were given to Dame Harriet Walter and Sir Ian McKellen, for their outstanding lifetime’s achievements in the... Read More...1st October 2020
Queen’s Film Theatre Queen's University, Belfast 20 University Square, Belfast BT7 1PA Saturday, November 21, at 2.00pm Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett, BSA Trustee, is delivering a Media and Performance event as part of the 2020 Being Human festival. At the... Read More...
14th September 2020
Call for Submissions: ‘Shakespeare and Versification’ At the start of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854), Mr M’Choakumchild drills his pupils in ‘the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling’. The list continues, as a mixture of tedium and threat,... Read More...3rd July 2020
Teaching Shakespeare is an international, cross-sector magazine for educators and students that is freely available online via the British Shakespeare Association’s Education section of its website. It has a readership of over 1,000 in more than 60 countries — thanks... Read More...1st June 2020
Do you have an interest in identifying and honouring those individuals who have made a substantial contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare as creatives or as scholars? The Honorary Fellowships committee is seeking to recruit two new members to take... Read More...23rd April 2020
Message from Chair Dear Members, [caption id="attachment_3095" align="alignright" width="300"] Image by Brett Greatley-Hirsch[/caption] I hope, first and foremost that you are all well. It feels rather strange celebrating Shakespeare's birthday over the next three days in the midst of a... Read More...23rd April 2020
What was Shakespeare Really Like? Birthday lectures by Professor Stanley Wells. From Shakespeare's Birthday (23 April), Professor Stanley Wells is making available a series of four, new public lectures: 'What Was Shakespeare Really Like?' These are commissioned (with Professor Stanley... Read More...Copyright 2025. All Rights Reserved