Shakespeare Season opening keynote lecture: Shakespeare 1616-2116
This lecture explores four centuries of Shakespearean scholarship, textual metamorphosis and commemoration whilst looking ahead to what the next century has in store.
15 April 2016
Sir Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL Provost, Worcester College Oxford
From The Mad Wedding to Queen Lear: Remaking Shakespeare in Dutch, 1654–2015
This talk examines some of the many ways that the work of Shakespeare has been re-imagined in Dutch.
20 April 2016
Dr Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
Speak What We Feel - Performances
You know that feeling when you just have to tell the truth or you will burst?
Come on a journey to discover five characters who tell it like it is.
23 April 2016
Talawa Theatre Company
Speak What We Feel - Workshop
What would you say if you could say anything at all?
Join Talawa for a writing workshop and create your own response pieces.
23 April 2016
Talawa Theatre Company
Metamorphosis of a Library: collecting Shakespeare at the University of London
Dr Karen Attar takes a close look at how some rare Shakespearean treasures found their way into the University Library's collection.
26 April 2016
Dr Karen Attar
Shakespeare in 1916: The First World War & the Origins of Global Shakespeare
Professor Gordon McMullan reflects on the intersection of Shakespeare's Tercentenary and the First World War.
3 May 2016
Professor Gordon McMullan
Shakespeare in London: a Wikipedia workshop
Want to learn how to be a wiki editor and love Shakespeare? If you do, then this edit-a-thon is for you!
7 May 2016
Wikipedia and Senate House Librarians
Editing Shakespeare
This talk, from Professor Sonia Massai, considers how Shakespeare’s text has evolved over the last 400 years.
10 May 2016
Professor Sonia Massai
Shakespeare’s Common Prayers
Daniel Swift, Senior Lecturer in English at the New College of the Humanities, will explore how Shakespeare adapted, stole, and metamorphosed The Book of Common Prayer
11 May 2016
Daniel Swift
Shakespeare and the Mind
What happens in your mind when you read or see Shakespeare performed? This seminar will explore this, and other pertinent questions, through recent research from The Human Mind Project.
18 May 2016
Dr Miranda Anderson and Professor Paul Matthews
Researching, revering and selling Shakespeare
Dr Richard Espley talks about Senate House Library's vast and growing breadth of its holdings on Shakespeare, and draws on the very public debate over the Library’s proposed sale of a set of Shakespeare folios in 2013
25 May 2016
Dr Richard Espley
Othello: The Curator's Room
Curators of the Shakespeare: Metamorphosis exhibition discuss rare texts in the intimate setting of the original room 101, and examine the initial sources for the play Othello.
6 June 2016
Dr Karen Attar and Dr Richard Espley
Shakespeare in French - Study Day
Join us in Senate House Library to explore Shakespeare from a French perspective.
8 June 2016
Mutiple guest speakers
Macbeth on the Victorian stage
Professor Emerita, Sandra Clark, will consider the range and variety of the productions of Macbeth and the innovations some performers introduced.
16 June 2016
Sandra Clark
Shakespeare’s First Folio: the biography of a book
Professor Emma Smith traces some of the changing values that the First Folio has attracted over time, and attempts to weave the Senate House Library copies into the story of Shakespeare's work.
20 June 2016
Professor Emma Smith
Symposium: Shakespeare's Text Down The Ages
Ever since Nicholas Rowe produced the first modern edition in 1709 there has been a continuous debate about Shakespeare’s text. In this symposium we will be addressing this issue with a series of studies covering the time span from then till now.
21 June 2016
Professor Sir Brian Vickers and guest speakers.
Exploring the Sonnets
Actors Edward Fox, Joanna David and Dominic West join Professor Sir Brian Vickers for an intimate and unique evening of study and performance of Shakespeare's sonnets.
23 June 2016
Professor Sir Brian Vickers plus special guests.
Metamorphosis of ‘New Place’
Dr Paul Edmondson argues it is now high time for a metamorphosis in Shakespearian biography, as well as for New Place itself, which is being newly presented for the 2016 anniversary year.
28 June 2016
Dr Paul Edmondson
Shakespeare goes to Cambridge
David McKitterick Vice Master of Trinity College
Cambridge will take the tale of Shakespeare in Cambridge
down to our own times, including recent gifts to Trinity
College.
12 July 2016
David McKitterick
Shakespeare Burlesqued
Professor Michael Slater will be exploring the work of
some of the most prominent practitioners of the
burlesque genre and considering the reasons for their
success.
14 July 2016
Professor Michael Slater
Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Text and Scholarship
As part of the Curious? Futures festival, Senate House
Library will present a short film and talk on
Shakespeare in the digital age.
23 July 2016
Maria Castrillo
Dickens and Shakespeare
Professor Michael Slater explores some Shakespearian
references and allusions in Dickens own work
11 August 2016
Professor Michael Slater.
Reinterpreting Shakespeare’s will
Amanda Bevan of The National Archives takes a fresh look
at Shakespeare's original, signed will, and casts new
light on the way he conducted himself in a number of
different roles.
18 August 2016
Amanda Bevan
From 1899 to digital: The Arden Shakespeare, Shakespearean critical scholarship and the evolution of English as a discipline
Exploring the history of the Arden Shakespeare series
from its launch in 1899.
25 August 2016
Mary Ann Kernan
The Paradox of Shakespeare’s London
Come and explore this strange and fascinating place and
hear the voices of tourists and travellers who were
amazed, baffled and delighted by London, which was the
centre of Shakespeare's world.
7 September 2016
David Thomas
Shakespeare and the Digital World: When scholarship meets global capitalism
In this paper Christie Carson scrutinises her own work
to illustrate the importance of speculating about the
future in order to help to form, as well as inform, it.
15 September 2016
Christie Carson
Shakespeare Season closing Keynote: The Genius of Shakespeare
This lecture will offer a personal response to the
sources of Shakespeare’s verbal power and his rhetorical
techniques.
17 September 2016
Professor Stanley Wells
Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare in Chinese Cultural Context
This lecture considers the parallels between Tang Xianzu
and Shakespeare, exploring why Tang's reputation in
China diminished while Shakespeare became a household
name. The event will also include a short performance
and a drinks reception.
27 September 2016
Pei-kai Cheng