Shakespeare Institute

A beautiful day to be blessed by such great company!

We were honoured to welcome Whitney White for a Q&A at the Institute yesterday! Such an intelligent, delightful, lover of #Shakespeare.
Here she is pictured next to the Moroccan Ambassador in the hall😍
Don't miss her phenomenal 'All is but Fantasy' @the-rsc.bsky.social

#whitneywhite #rsc

Photo of Eleanor Collins’ new book, Queen Henrietta’s Men and the Cockpit Repertory—out now in the Revels Plays Companion Library from Manchester University Press. The book has a purple and black cover. It’s in front of a rainbow wallpaper background.

Oooh! So pleased to see Ellie Collins’ book out in our series!! Such wonderful repertory work!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/

CC @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

So proud to welcome back Dr Lucy Holehouse, who completed her PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, from @royalholloway.bsky.social for this week's Thursday Seminar!
It's all about entertainment at the livery companies of London during the plague year of 1603.
#earlymodern #entertainment #dekker

Professor Tiffany Stern continues her German tour with a talk on Tarlton in Dusseldorf tonight 🤡

📃"Clowning Around: Richard Tarlton in and Beyond the Playhouse"
📆 27th January 2026
📍Gerhardt-Hauptmann-Haus, Room 412 Ostpreussen, Dusseldorf
🕡 19:00

Attention, those in Bonn, Professor Tiffany Stern is in town tonight📣

📃“Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton and the Puppets”
📆 26th January 2026
📍FGS Flick Gocke Schaumburg, Bonn
🕡 18:30

🔗 shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/vortrag-von-...

What an honour it was to welcome the multi-talented Director Simon Evans to our Thursday Seminar! Here he is talking about his recent phenomenal production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the RSC.

We eagerly await his next foray into Shakespeare!

#simonevans #rsc #cyranodebergerac

Shakespeare Institute Online Play Reading Series: Twelfth Night or What You Will by William Shakespeare Join us on Zoom on Tuesday 6 January 4:00 pm (GMT)

This is online tomorrow! Time for some social Shakespeare fun to celebrate Twelfth Night 🥳
Everyone is welcome.
tinyurl.com/SI-Playreadi...

#Shakespere #online #playreading #twelfthnight

Happy New Year from a cold but beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon ❄️

Here's to another wonderful year of all things Shakespeare 🎉

#snow #Shakespeare #stratforduponavon

Shakespeare Institute Christmas party 2025!

Pictured:
-Professor Michael Dobson reading the names of this year's graduates
-Professor Sir Stanley Wells gives out this year's prizes
-Eddie Malone and the Footnotes return for a mercifully short set

A fitting farewell to the year!

The final Thursday Seminar of the term is Patricia Lennox of @nyu.edu talking about Performing Visible Pregnancy in #Shakespeare's Plays. Social expectations and attitudes about #pregnancy dictate the way pregnant bodies are costumed in productions.
Buy here!: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be co-leading (with Prof. Kristen Poole of the University of Delaware) a seminar about ‘Wordplay’ at next year’s International Shakespeare Conference @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

🎓It's graduation day!!!!🎓
🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to the Class of 2025!!🎉🎉🎉
We're so proud of you 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🥳

This week's Thursday Seminar welcomes one of our own, Professor Tom Lockwood, who's come from the main campus at The University of Birmingham to enlighten us about dramatic extracts from Twelfth Night in manuscripts from the turn of the (17th) century.

#Christmas #twelfthnight #manuscript

Winter holiday entertainment: sorted!

Don't miss our wonderful Professor Ewan Fernie in Channel 4's 'Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family, and Me' on December 27th at 9pm🎄🌟🤩

#judidench #Shakespeare #ewanfernie #Channel4

One for #throwbackthursday.
Rehearsing at @shakesinstitute.bsky.social in 2017

#earlymusic #musicianlife #lute #earlymusicensemble

For today's very special Open Day Thursday Seminar, we welcome Dr Daniel Swift, representing the quality speakers we have every week at our beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon campus✨

The talk is about that theatre called The Theatre in London, and Shakespeare's early career.

#danielswift #Shakespeare

London-based folk! Our Dr Jessica Chiba is giving a free talk on “‘Reason wonder may diminish’: Shakespeare and Aesthetic Freedom” at The London Aesthetics Forum next week.
📍Senate House
📅Thursday 27th November
🕟4:30pm
📝Sign up here: londonaestheticsforum.org?page_id=5012

Sorry, autocorrect has incorrected José's name. This should be José Pérez Díez.

For this week's Thursday Seminar, we are delighted to welcome back our alumnus José Perez Diaz, now an Associate Professor at @universityofleeds.bsky.social and joint chair of @bsashakespeare.bsky.social (pictured here with the Moroccan Ambassador, in front of whom he played Othello back in 2009)!

Recently published!
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The State of Play, edited by Rebecca Bushnell, from @ardenpublisher.bsky.social featuring a chapter by our own Dr Jessica Chiba🎉

Available here: bloomsbury.com/uk/midsummer...

#shakespeare #publication #publications #amidsummernightsdream #study

The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

This today!!!

Professor Tiffany Stern will be giving a talk on 'Shakespeare's Ballad Business' at Merton College, Oxford.

📆Tuesday 11th November
🕔5.15pm-7.15pm
📍T S Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford

The event is open to ALL, and includes refreshments 🥂
(so go go go!)

What's better than Professor Tiffany Stern talking about #ballads?

Professor Tiffany Stern talking about ballads, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. TODAY.

With Bill Barclay from The Globe Theatre

Check it out👇👇👇
#shakespeare #RutgersUniversity #music #earlymodernmusic #theglobe #lute

When Tang Xianzu's Peony Meets Shakespeare's Midsummer Night YouTube video by 江西日报 JiangxiDaily

A lovely video featuring interviews with The Shakespeare Institute Players and Professor Michael Dobson during their recent visit to Fuzhou 🇨🇳
youtu.be/FMG7abbsHCM?si…
#Shakespeare #tangxianzu #fuzhou #drama

In this week's Thursday Seminar, Professor Sir Jonathan Bate of Arizona State University amusingly and insightfully thinks about the role of #AI in #Shakespeare research through an AI-generated Love's Labour's Won, complete with a student performance of Claude.ai's creative(?) work.

Some more photographic records of the Shakespeare Institute Players' triumphant China tour of the Peony Pavilion!
#Shakespeare #china #TangXianzu #PeonyPavilion #intercultural #china

The Shakespeare Institute Players are currently in China, touring English-translated extracts from The Peony Pavilion, a great classic written by #TangXianzu, #Shakespeare's Chinese contemporary! What an experience.