Promoting the study, practice
and enjoyment of Shakespeare.
9th July 2021
The British Shakespeare Association is saddened by the passing of Professor Michael Hattaway, on Wednesday 7 July, after a courageous, nine-month struggle with cancer. The Shakespeare world has been enriched by his lively and accessible academic work, from the well-used Elizabethan... Read More...
27th April 2021
An online roundtable hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies Tuesday 4th May 2021, 5:00pm Registration Link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/shakegerm Romeo and Juliet, but not as we know it… From the 1590s onwards travelling players took various plays from the London... 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...25th September 2018
An Invitation from the Chair of the BSA Fellowship Committee: The British Shakespeare Association endows two Honorary Fellowships each year. This year, 2018, the Fellowship was given solely to Roger Harcourt – for his outstanding work and lifetime's achievement in... Read More...25th July 2017
NEWS FROM THE TRUSTEES CALL FOR PAPERS: British Shakespeare Association annual conference: Shakespeare Studies Today, Queen’s University Belfast, 14-17 June 2018 Shakespeare Studies is one of the most rich and dynamic areas of interdisciplinary enquiry. It embraces historical explorations of... Read More...7th 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...23rd April 2017
Michael Bogdanov (1938-2017) The BSA is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Michael Bogdanov, an outstanding director of Shakespeare and longtime friend to the Association. Michael served on our Honorary Fellowship Committee, and, most recently, gave a memorable... Read More...Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved