British Shakespeare Association

A very exciting line-up as well as a few familiar faces!

I am in Oxford on Monday evening giving a talk about SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS, looking at Elizabethan education; Shakespeare’s role as an actor-playwright; and intersections between his works and those of Christopher Marlowe.

Tickets here:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-shake....

Come to the annual conference of the Polish Shakespeare Association in Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Poland: hybrid mode, sessions in Polish and English (and the conference fee is not a typo.)

towarzystwoszekspirowskie.org.pl/konferencje/...
@bsashakespeare.bsky.social @saaupdates.bsky.social

Congratulations to the presenters, to @lisahopkins.bsky.social and Deborah Cartmell, and to @bsashakespeare.bsky.social on the “AI and Shakespeare” conference. Much to chew on. (1/3)

It struck me while listening to all the brilliant critical discussions @bsashakespeare.bsky.social conference on 'AI & Shakespeare' that AI is by definition man-made (gendering intentional). It isn't machines we're battling but human beings. The planetary and other ethical impacts are by design.

*Out now*

'Shakespeare and Trauma Theory' by Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its intellectual and practical application.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4rASzzV

Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Join our free online talk and come away with new ideas for the classroom.

Free online talk: Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series

Explore new ways of teaching Shakespeare using contemporary glosses, accessible text design & recent performance history.

📆19 March
💻Online
🕓4-5pm GMT / 11am-12pm EST

https://bit.ly/4rAz6zj

*New research*

'Shakespeare and Ballet: Gender, Sexuality, Race and Politics on Stage' by David Fuller is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4qGlX6v

*Out now*

'Festival Shakespeares: Networking Performance Across Europe' by Rowena Hawkins is the first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a 5-year period of rising nationalism, Brexit & the coronavirus pandemic.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3MjUKst

Hurrah! This plopped through the letterbox this morning.
Not only is it always a thrill to see my work in print (Chapter 10), but I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the book.
Many thanks to Duncan Lees and Liz Oakley-Brown for all their help and support.
#Shakespeare #RadioDrama

Today and tomorrow 👇
Huge number of people have signed up - it's going to be a busy one
#Shakespeare #BSA2026
#AI

Conference - British Shakespeare Association BSA Conference AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference A virtual BSA conference 26th and 27th February 2026 In the interests of economy and inclusivity, the BSA will b...

We are looking forward to welcoming you online tomorrow for AI and Shakespeare! Join us from noon for an exciting programme of live sessions exploring the opportunities, threats and implications of AI for research, education and practitioner communities
www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be talking about ‘Shakespeare’s Asiatic Style’ at the Renaissance Society of America conference in San Francisco today — 2:30pm, Union Square 21.

Out today!

'Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company' by Ronan Hatfull is the first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social, exploring the troupe’s four major Shakespearean works over the past four decades.

https://bit.ly/4rs1wLU

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3 - Available now Available episodes of Drama on 3

Finally, if you want to celebrate #WorldRadioDay with an audio play, search Drama on 3 on BBC Sounds and you’ll find a wealth of great productions ranging from Shakespeare to Churchill – and a wide range of original and adapted drama in between.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Enjoy! (3/3)

BSA Small Grants Fund - British Shakespeare Association Purpose: The purpose of the BSA’s Small Grants Fund is to offer financial support to members of the BSA who wish to organize a Shakespeare-related event or conduct Shakespeare-related research. We esp...

The BSA Small Grants Fund is back! BSA members can apply by 30 March for up to £500 to support Shakespeare related events or research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral researchers, ECRs, teachers and creative practitioners! Find out more at:
www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...

A photograph of a character in a play. Black and white, a young man wearing a short jacket over a white shirt and messy school tie, with shorts and a short white tutu; he has fairy wings and is smiling in a manic way.

Puck: I am NAUGHTY, I say BUM! look out fairy, here comes Oberon #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Richard McCabe as a punky Puck (school tie, tutu, pointy ears, fairy wings) in the 1989 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. John Caird

Book cover for Shakespeare's Censor

New monograph alert:

W.R. Streitberger, Shakespeare's Censor: Edmund Tilney's Intelligence Manual (2026)

It's the fourth book published in the Studies in Early Modern Authorship series. Interested in proposing a book for the series? See details here: www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

RaceB4Race Love - YouTube Recordings from the January 2026 Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium.This symposium explored the concept of love in the broadest sense. How does race inform the way...

Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#Shakespeare wasn’t always “Shakespeare.” Stephen Orgel explores how the bard's plays became global classics in his new book with @ardenpublisher.bsky.social.

🎭 https://bit.ly/4jy3Hu8

#TheatreSky

A woodcut illustration. On the left, a man in a hat is playing a drum and pipe. He's looking over his shoulder at another man, with a beard, wearing breeches and doublet, with bells below his knees and scarves on his arms; he has a hat with a feather in it, and he's dancing.

A still from a film. A man with messy brown hair and a neat beard and moustache is gesturing with his right hand and holding a soft-bound script in his right hand. His mouth is open. He wears a smart white linen jacket and a bowtie.

Bottom: but what BEARD for Pyramus? 🧔🧔‍♂️Quince: ??!! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Part of the joke is that, if Will Kempe (R) is playing Bottom, he already has a beard... This is still often the case: here's Kevin Kline in the 1999 film.

If you're coming along, you might like to listen to this in advance: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
But no prior knowledge of #RomeoAndJuliet required. You don't even need to like #Shakespeare 🎭
See you Saturday!
#WolseyWriters #Ipswich #Suffolk
#ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧
#RadioDrama #AudioDrama

Imagine Together Summer 2026 | Shakespeare's Globe A world-renowned theatre, education centre, and cultural landmark, located on the bank of the River Thames in London, UK.

"the plays this season were born out of a world in chaos whether that was the chaos of Shakespeare’s 1599 or Brecht’s 1939. The questions these plays ask are an attempt to make sense of that world: what is love? What is evil? What is power? What is life?"
www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blo...

Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy - Cassidy Cash Explore the life of Sir Henry Wotton to reveal how diplomacy, danger, & performance shaped the political world that surrounded Shakespeare.

On the new episode of @thatshakespeare.bsky.social, Carol Chillington Rutter, author of Lying abroad, explores the extraordinary life of the man King James I called his “honest dissembler”, Henry Wotton.

Listen to the episode on all podcast platforms:
www.cassidycash.com/henry-wotton... #booksky

Have you renewed your BSA membership for 2026 yet? Register or renew new for free or discounted entry to BSA events, including our upcoming virtual conference on AI and Shakespeare! Concessions available for teachers, practitioners and students
www.britishshakespeare.ws/join-the-bsa...

Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts From the early moments in Hamlet when he offers a ‘piece’ (1.1.18) of himself to his readiness to consider a range of folkloric narratives, Horatio’s approach to the supernatural is one marked by f...

"Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," Shakespeare (2024)

Cover of Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain.

Bill Angus and I are very pleased that our edited collection on Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain (published by Edinburgh University Press) will soon be out in paperback:

Conference - British Shakespeare Association BSA Conference AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference A virtual BSA conference 26th and 27th February 2026 In the interests of economy and inclusivity, the BSA will b...

Registration is now open for AI and Shakespeare: A BSA Virtual Conference! True to theme, events will run online 26-27 Feb, including sessions on editing, pedagogy, and a keynote by Jonathan Bate, 'Love's Labour's Won: An Intelligent Artifice?' Register now at: www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

Shakespeare and Mathematics | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

Delighted to see (and hear) that this episode on the Folger podcast is now up with Rob Eastaway.

www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Rob and I have some exciting collaborative and cross-curricular public speaking events in store, so watch this space!

Here’s the schedule for our two-day conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ next month!

Full details, including a Zoom link for those who want to follow remotely, will be available on our website by the end of this week:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news