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The British Shakespeare Association is a professional association of teachers, researchers, theatre practitioners, writers and enthusiasts. The BSA is a registered charity and its aims are educational – ‘to promote and foster a better understanding of Shakespeare and his work’. Read more about us »

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Shakespeare’s Birthday Events

07 Apr 2021
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In celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday on Friday 23rd April, there is a veritable feast of events as detailed below:   12.30-14.00 ‘Theatre in Time of Plague’ (12:30-14:00) A lunchtime celebration of William Shakespeare’s 457th birthday an online discussion with...
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The 11th World Shakespeare Congress: Shakespeare Circuits. 18-24 July 2021. Online from Singapore.

06 Mar 2021
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The 11th World Shakespeare Congress: Shakespeare Circuits. 18-24 July 2021. Online from Singapore. The quinquennial WSC will be virtual this year. It will include plenaries, panels and seminars and an array of Asian productions of Shakespeare available both during the conference...
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Upcoming Events

02 Feb 2021
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  Online book launch of Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare and East Asia 5 February 2021 An online book launch for Alexa Alice Joubin’s new book, Shakespeare and East Asia, organised by the Society for Renaissance Studies. Register here.   Shakespeare, Race &...
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Videos, podcasts, and more

02 Feb 2021
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Launch of ‘Unprecedented’ ‘Unprecedented’ is a new video project hosted by Shakespeare Link and the Wet Mariners. Access the project launch announcement here and stay tuned for more content.   Andrew Smith (Fleeting Year Films) on Hamlet A number of performers and...
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Early Career Researcher News: Ronan Hatfull, Learning to Lead at Conferences in 2021

28 Jan 2021
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BSA member Dr Ronan Hatfull shares news of upcoming conference leadership activities and reflects on conferencing during the pandemic. The buzz of conferences in the early days of my doctoral research at the University of Warwick was an integral reason why I chose to pursue a...
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Early Career Researcher News: Faith Acker, First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790

25 Jan 2021
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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 work for publication. What is...
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Nominations for the 2021 BSA Honorary Fellowships

14 Dec 2020
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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 field of...
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Expanding Horizons: Shakespeare and Indian Cinema

01 Oct 2020
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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 ‘Expanding...
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CFP: Shakespeare and Versification

14 Sep 2020
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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,...
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Teaching Shakespeare 20: Call for Papers

03 Jul 2020
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Teaching Shakespeare is an international, cross-sector magazine for educators and students that is freely available online via the British Shakespeare Association’s Education section of its website. It has a readership of over 1,000 in more than 60 countries — thanks to your...
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