Next Tuesday! Tiffany is talking about her brilliant ballad research at the Shakespeare Club in Stratford.
Free for all Shakespeare Institute students, but well worth the modest entry price for anyone else!
stratfordshakespeareclub.org/current-talks
Free for all Shakespeare Institute students, but well worth the modest entry price for anyone else!
stratfordshakespeareclub.org/current-talks
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Out now & in a library near ... me! @ShakesInstitute library, in Stratford-on-Avon. Part of the new releases display. *Reinventing Shakespeare: Translation, Adaptation and Afterlives*, edited by Miriam Lau and Anna Tso - pleasure to work with them & feature with fab contributors.
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Some gorgeous photographs from last week's 'Shakespeare's Cosmos' event at The Exchange in Birmingham, featuring our stellar PhD students Lousia Pickard and Kibria Nasir in conversation with our Brilliant Dr Simon Smith under the warm light of the phenomenal Helios installation☀️
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SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he hiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he hiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
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This week, Víctor Huertas-Martín of @UV_EG is discussing memory, archival work and Shakespeare in the Spanish cinema, focusing especially on El Abuelo, an adaptation of King Lear 🇪🇦
#Shakespeare #Spain #ElAbuelo #Galdos
#Shakespeare #Spain #ElAbuelo #Galdos
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In Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius - on the BBC at 9 & airing for the first time in America - I found myself reflecting on how Hamlet's utterance, 'the interim is mine', crystallises his fundamental opposition to the revenge he is called to.
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The project isn't exactly about turning Shakespeare's works into video games, but our wonderful 'boffins' (read: Professor Erin Sullivan and Dr Sarah Olive) certainly deserve attention from every news outlet! thesun.co.uk/news/40740185/…
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For this week's Thursday Seminar, Dr Sophie Mann, a historian of medicine, is giving an amazingly informative account of the connection between religion and health in the early modern period, exploring religious divide, chronic illness, "double health", and "double cure".
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Today at 4.30pm UK time: #Macbeth in the Shakespeare Exchange. 🎭 Professor @EFernie and Alistair Wilkinson. Free, online. Register for the link: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #ShakespeareExchange #Shakespeare #Webinar #teamenglish
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Tomorrow! ⏰ #Macbeth in the #Shakespeare Exchange, 4.30–5.15pm UK time, with Ewan Fernie and Alistair Wilkinson. Free, and registering gives you access to the recording too: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #ShakespeareExchange #Macbeth #Webinar
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#HelloSIL Come and see our exhibition space. it’s regularly updated with a new display. We also have online exhibitions over on Flickr: flickr.com/photos/shakesp… @ShakesInstitute
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#HelloSIL Some books are so rare we keep them locked away. To see one, ask at the front desk, and we will fetch it. (Marked r on FindIt) @ShakesInstitute
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Our Tiffany Stern is heading to Madrid 🇪🇸 to speak at "Reescribiendo los Ecos del Pasado," an international seminar on palimpsest, intertextuality & hybridisation. Catch her talk "Ballads as Theatre 'Merchandise' in Shakespeare's London" — 20 Oct, 12:00, UCM. It's free!
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Professor Ewan Fernie joins the fun in our
final round of 'Who is the best Shakespearean Traitor?'
Who would you choose? Drop your answer in the
comments 👇
#ShakespeareSunday #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors
final round of 'Who is the best Shakespearean Traitor?'
Who would you choose? Drop your answer in the
comments 👇
#ShakespeareSunday #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors
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Yesterday's Thursday Seminar was a real treat!
The magnificently charismatic Jed Wentz from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University demonstrated 18th-century acting styles based on annotations and published guides to speech and movement from the time.
The magnificently charismatic Jed Wentz from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University demonstrated 18th-century acting styles based on annotations and published guides to speech and movement from the time.
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Find out more about Jed Wentz here: researchcatalogue.net/researches/417…
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Meet the speakers: Alistair Wilkinson (@StJamesSchoolGY), Head of English and Curriculum Design, and Shakespeare Institute MA student. Talking Macbeth with Ewan Fernie, Wed 21 Oct, 4.30pm UK. Free: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #ShakespeareExchange #Macbeth
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Five days left! ⏳
Did you know we offer an affordable short course for learners of all levels? Fall in with Shakespeare starts 27 October — six weeks online with the world-leading experts from the Shakespeare Institute.
Applications close 19 Oct 👉 birmingham.ac.uk/study/short-co…
Did you know we offer an affordable short course for learners of all levels? Fall in with Shakespeare starts 27 October — six weeks online with the world-leading experts from the Shakespeare Institute.
Applications close 19 Oct 👉 birmingham.ac.uk/study/short-co…
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One week to go! 🗓️ Next Wed 21 Oct, 4.30pm UK time: #Macbeth in the Shakespeare Exchange with Ewan Fernie and Alistair Wilkinson. Join live or watch the recording. Free, online: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #ShakespeareExchange #Macbeth @Team_English1
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#HelloSIL Shakespeare in Performance is a database of C17th-20th promptbooks from the Folger Shakespeare Library tinyurl.com/39d9hja3 @ShakesInstitute
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