Shakespeare the Collaborator: Paul Edmondson in conversation with John Jowett, Paul Edmondson, Eric Rasmussen and Peter Kirwan

7.30pm, 25th November 2011, The Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Join the British Shakespeare Association and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for a lively discussion of Shakespeare’s collaborations with John Jowett, Paul Edmondson, Eric Rasmussen and Peter Kirwan. 

The event will start at 7.30pm, after the BSA’s AGM, and will be held in the Shakespeare Centre, next to the Birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon, on the 25th November 2011.

Tickets are £5 or £4 for members of the BSA and Friends of the SBT. Tickets will be available on the door.

Shakespeare did not always write alone. We know that he collaborated with John Fletcher, George Wilkins and Thomas Middleton, and it is possible that other authors contributed lines and scenes to many more plays. Scholars continue to debate Shakespeare’s relationship with other writers, and recently the Oxford edition of The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton included Measure for Measure and Macbeth as plays ‘adapted by Thomas Middleton’. How does an appreciation of the range of Shakespeare’s collaborations change and deepen our reception of the plays? What did collaboration mean for Shakespeare and his contemporaries?