Our Professor Michael Dobson is one of the many distinguished people speaking at the 3rd 'Shakespeare at the UN' online celebration of English language day!
Tune in tomorrow for the perfect celebration of Shakespeare's birthday!!
www.un.org/en/observanc...
Yesterday Professor Tiffany Stern spoke at this sold-out @beyondshakes.bsky.social live show on The Book of Sir Thomas More, sponsored by the @malonesociety.bsky.social
Check them out and sign up to their podcast for some recordings of this fascinating event👂
beyondshakespeare.org/the-book-of-...
Our brilliant Dr Chris Laoutaris will be interviewing Sir Gregory Doran, former artistic director of @the-rsc.bsky.social about his new book, 'Walking Shadow' at @stationerscomms.bsky.social on 23 April from 6:15pm
What a way to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday😍
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A photo of Manuela, Abigail, Georgia and Tracey
Our amazing Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Dr Tracy Irish, with Manuela Perteghella MP for Stratford-upon-Avon, met Georgia Gould MP, the Minister for School Standards, to discuss learning opportunities for #Shakespeare in BSL and to campaign for #BSL as an assessment language.
Today is the final Thursday Seminar of this term!
We are delighted to welcome back Dr Ronan Hatfull of the University of Warwick, a member of our inaugural Shakespeare and Creativity MA 🥰
Here he is with his new book! Buy it!
#reducedshakespearecompany
#Shakespeare #alumni
Book cover for 'Twelfth Night' from The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series. Edited by Emma Smith.
In Illyria, a shipwreck tears two siblings apart and sets off a chain of mistaken identities and confused desires.
Edited by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, this edition foregrounds Twelfth Night’s queer potential and explores madness, mourning and migration.
Coming this winter: https://bit.ly/4bKgSoi
Today's Thursday Seminar welcomes home the extraordinary Professor Russell Jackson, who is talking about '"Ordinary" Shakespeare'.
#russelljackson #Shakespeare #shakespeareinstitute
Did you know that our dear Professor Tiffany Stern's newest book, 'Ballad Business', is available to order?
You do now! AND it comes endorsed by no less a figure than Millie the whippet🐕
Get it from @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/9781107179677
#publications
📣Join us this Thursday for our online Open Day!
Register here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/shake...
👆🏼 Reminder: This Sunday, 22 March, #DSG president @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social will speak with #Gwendolyne #Melchinger about #Hamlet at #Schauspiel #Stuttgart. Come and see 'Who's there'! 👻
Congratulations to the Shakespeare Institute Players on their successful staging of the Comedy of Errors last week!
What an entertaining show 🤩
"The Ides of March are come."
The new Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Julius Caesar by @authorajhartley.bsky.social is out in May!
Pre-order your copy: https://bit.ly/4qeGDDb
Next online play reading!
A cut version of Pericles, Prince of Tyre on 24 March at 4:15 pm (UK time).
All SI distance learners, on-site students, staff members, and alumni are welcome to join: read or listen in😃
Details, Zoom link and script here: tinyurl.com/SI-Playreadi...
#ShakespeareSunday
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