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

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

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

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.

Coming Soon! Indigenizing Shakespeare Speaker Series hosted by Xin Ying Lim, our Visiting Fellow and @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded doctoral researcher at the @universityofhull.bsky.social
🔹Tuesdays, Oct–Dec 2025, 4–5pm UK Time
🔹Online
👉 For speaker lineup and registration: forms.gle/iVctbVJ2MCoE...

The first Thursday Seminar of the term is traditionally given by the director of the Shakespeare Institute. How lucky we are to have Professor Michael Dobson talking about 'The Life of King Henry the Fifth: Shakespeare, Popular Memory, and Royal Memory' - we have a great turnout!

Welcome to our new and returning students to a new academic year at The Shakespeare Institute!
We're looking forward to thinking about #Shakespeare with you all 🥰
#MA #ShakespeareInstitute #postgrad #postgraduate

📢CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED📢
The 'Shakespeare in a Polarised World' Conference, taking place in Brussels, March 2026, will be accepting abstracts until the 30th September (ignore date on website): waseda.jp/inst/brussels-…#cfpf#Shakespearer#conferencece

🌻 Sunflowers -- a symbol of Ukraine, much celebrated in the poetry of Ivan Franko -- blooming in the Institute garden to mark our continuing partnership with Ivan Franko National University in Lviv 🇺🇦

A wonderful evening! Tiffany and Laura (alumni relations) met great #Shakespeare Institute alumni and prospective students in New York🗽

With them was the fabulous alumna Diane Meyer Lowman, who has generously set up a #scholarship for international MA students:

www.birmingham.ac.uk/funding/post...