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In Memoriam: Professor Michael Hattaway

The British Shakespeare Association is saddened by the passing of Professor Michael Hattaway, on Wednesday 7 July, after a courageous, nine-month struggle with cancer. The Shakespeare world has been enriched by his lively and accessible academic work, from the well-used Elizabethan... Read More...

Early Modern German Shakespeare in Action: Creation Theatre’s ‘Romio und Julieta’

An online roundtable hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies Tuesday 4th May 2021, 5:00pm Registration Link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/shakegerm   Romeo and Juliet, but not as we know it… From the 1590s onwards travelling players took various plays from the London... Read More...

Early Career Researcher News: Faith Acker, First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790

Congratulations to BSA member Dr Faith Acker on the publication of her first monograph, First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790 (Routledge, 2020). Read on to learn more from Dr Acker about her book and the process of adapting her doctoral... Read More...

Nominations for the 2021 BSA Honorary Fellowships

The British Shakespeare Association endows two Honorary Fellowships each year. The 2020 awards, in honour of our postponed conference on ‘Shakespeare in Action’, were given to Dame Harriet Walter and Sir Ian McKellen, for their outstanding lifetime’s achievements in the... Read More...

Expanding Horizons: Shakespeare and Indian Cinema

Queen’s Film Theatre Queen's University, Belfast 20 University Square, Belfast BT7 1PA Saturday, November 21, at 2.00pm Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett, BSA Trustee, is delivering a Media and Performance event as part of the 2020 Being Human festival. At the... Read More...

CFP: Shakespeare and Versification

Call for Submissions: ‘Shakespeare and Versification’ At the start of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854), Mr M’Choakumchild drills his pupils in ‘the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling’. The list continues, as a mixture of tedium and threat,... Read More...

Fellowship Nominations

An Invitation from the Chair of the BSA Fellowship Committee: The British Shakespeare Association endows two Honorary Fellowships each year. This year, 2018, the Fellowship was given solely to Roger Harcourt – for his outstanding work and lifetime's achievement in... Read More...

BSA Bulletin for July and August 2017

NEWS FROM THE TRUSTEES CALL FOR PAPERS: British Shakespeare Association annual conference: Shakespeare Studies Today, Queen’s University Belfast, 14-17 June 2018 Shakespeare Studies is one of the most rich and dynamic areas of interdisciplinary enquiry. It embraces historical explorations of... Read More...

BSA Bulletin for June 2017

THE BSA BULLETIN – JUNE 2017 BSA election of new Trustees As several Trustees are now approaching the end of their terms of service, the Board of Trustees of the British Shakespeare Association wishes to appoint new Trustees to take... Read More...

BSA Bulletin for April 2017 and Shakespeare’s Birthday

Michael Bogdanov (1938-2017) The BSA is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Michael Bogdanov, an outstanding director of Shakespeare and longtime friend to the Association. Michael served on our Honorary Fellowship Committee, and, most recently, gave a memorable... Read More...
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