Dr Sarah Dillon, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, will feature in two BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra broadcasts this Proms season. On Saturday 5th August she will contribute to a live discussion of H. G. Wells’ speculative fiction along with renowned science fiction writer Stephen Baxter who has been commissioned to write a sequel to The War […]
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Dr Edward Wilson-Lee Publishes New book: Shakespeare in Swahililand
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee’s new book Shakespeare in Swahililand is published on 10 March with HarperCollins. The launch party takes place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, also on 10 March. Shakespeare in Swahililand is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the part played by Shakespeare’s works in […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at Bath Festival of Literature
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee speaks to author and broadcaster Jenni Mills about his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand at the Independent Bath Festival of Literature on Thursday 3 March, from 4.30 to 5.30. Shakespeare in Swahililand, published on 10 March with HarperCollins, is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Publishes New Book: ‘Shakespeare’s Binding Language’
Professor John Kerrigan’s new book Shakespeare’s Binding Language will be published this month with Oxford University Press. The work, a state-of-the-art intervention into Shakespeare studies, offers a transformative account of a large number of Shakespeare’s plays. Making interdisciplinary use of historical, legal, and religious sources, Shakespeare’s Binding Language engages with new ideas about performance and ‘performativity’. “a massive, complicated and brilliant interpretation […]
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Thursday 23 October 2014 10AM to 5PM Drama Studio, Faculty of English Full Programme Dr Gavin Alexander leads a group of lecturers from the Faculty of English who will read aloud Shakespeare’s complete poetry to mark the 450th anniversary of his birth. Shakespeare’s plays are performed every day throughout the world. His poems are read […]
Continue ReadingSpecial Collections – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries is curating a Shakespeare exhibition at the University Library. Read her guest post on the University Library Special Collections Blog. “A new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall cases brings together a small number of books printed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, which together demonstrate some of the ways […]
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