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Daryl Chase: Shakespeare Subtitled

Film director and BSA member Daryl Chase shares his project Shakespeare Subtitled and the 'what', 'how', and 'why' of the project. Shakespeare Subtitled is a passion project, the seed of which was sewn around fifteen or more years ago.  'How?'.... Read More...

Latinx Shakespeares as Performance Methodology

Professor Carla Della Gatta shares with us her work on Latinx Shakespeares, including how the research towards her recent monograph has helped her to build a wide-ranging open-access archive and resources page at LatinxShakespeares.Org, of interest to BSA members for... Read More...

A Remarkable Richard III by BSA Honorary Fellow Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Andoh, Honorary Fellow of the BSA, directs and stars in a Richard IIII that remains true to the text but radically transforms our understandings of it. Andoh’s exciting production (Liverpool Playhouse until 22 April and the Rose Theatre Kingston... Read More...

Darren Freebury-Jones: Plucking Shakespeare’s Feathers

Dr Darren Freebury-Jones is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the BSA’s Education Committee. He is the author of Reading Robert Green: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival... Read More...

Reanimating and Reconsidering ‘Othello’

Vanessa I. Corredera (Associate Professor at Andrews University) writes about her work on Othello in ‘post-racial’ America and her recently published monograph, which is available from Edinburgh University Press. Given my scholarship on what in my book I call “reanimations”... Read More...

Daryl Chase – A Social Enterprise ‘Macbeth’ (2023) 

Daryl Chase, director of a new film adaptation of Macbeth, tells us about this socially-minded film project.  Our film adaptation of Macbeth, produced by Screen Northants, is a stunning adaptation of Shakespeare’s tale of ambition and madness. Set not in... Read More...

Eoin Price – The Deep Time of the Early Modern Repertory

Eoin Price is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University. His current project, Playgoing Time in Elizabethan London is funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. I am currently working on a project called Playgoing Time in Elizabethan London. The... Read More...

Randall Martin – Cymbeline in the Anthropocene: A Global Eco-Theatrical Collaboration

Cymbeline in the Anthropocene is an international performance-research project which brings together seven theatre companies and environmentally committed productions from four continents. It is the first collective effort to present Shakespeare’s ecological insights to audiences beyond academia or the Anglosphere. Each... Read More...

Varsha Panjwani – ‘I’m speaking’: Podcasts as Protest

Dr Varsha Panjwani is the host of the Women & Shakespeare podcast and the author of Podcasts & Feminist Shakespeare Pedagogy (Cambridge University Press, 2022). In this blog post, Dr Panjwani shares with us  an edited excerpt from her book, which is... Read More...

Laura Jayne Wright: Hearing Female Complaint(s) in Early Modern Literature

Laura Jayne Wright is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University, working on ‘Sounds of Distress: Hearing Female Complaint(s) in Early Modern Literature.’ For the last few years, my work has centred around listening. My DPhil thesis and soon-to-be... Read More...
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