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and enjoyment of Shakespeare.
6th March 2024
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies is hosting a one-day colloquium (on the 12th June 2024) intended to bring together postgraduate students working on Shakespeare and early modern drama. They welcome proposals for 20-minute research papers, 5-minute lightning talks and... Read More...
17th June 2022
The British Shakespeare Association is delighted to announce that our next conference will take place at the University of Liverpool, Tuesday 25th - Friday 28th July 2023, organised by Dr Esme Miskimmin (University of Liverpool), Dr Katie Knowles (University of... Read More...16th May 2021
Terra Nova Terra Nova, Northern Ireland’s only inter-cultural theatre company, has been busy with Shakespeare in recent months. Check out their wonderful ‘Intercultural Cohort’ project which includes ‘Shakespeare’s Monologues’ (22 April 2021), a series of five monologues from Shakespeare’s plays.... 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...
6th March 2021
The 11th World Shakespeare Congress: Shakespeare Circuits. 18-24 July 2021. Online from Singapore. The quinquennial WSC will be virtual this year. It will include plenaries, panels and seminars and an array of Asian productions of Shakespeare available both during the... 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...13th November 2018
King's Lynn Shakespeare Festival Friday 26th to Sunday 28th April, 2019 St George’s Guildhall, King Street, King’s Lynn PE30 1HA BSA members may be interested to attend the first King’s Lynn Shakespeare Festival. Over three days in April 2019, the... Read More...2nd July 2018
Our newest honorary fellow, Roger Harcourt, has kindly agreed to the publication of the acceptance speech he delivered during the Belfast conference dinner. Download the Speech Read More...21st June 2018
This post originally appeared on medium.com, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of its author. Thanks, Ben! 10 Things I (Most Definitely Didn’t) Hate About BSA Belfast 2018 So, a short preamble, as this is my very first entry... Read More...16th June 2018
The British Shakespeare Association welcomes applications from institutions to host the British Shakespeare Association conference in 2021. This is the largest regular Shakespeare conference in the United Kingdom, bringing together researchers, teachers and theatre practitioners to share the latest work... Read More...Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved