Shakespeare Institute

Enjoy an exclusive first look at The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series! Hear from the General Editors about what makes this new generation of Shakespeare’s plays, poems and sonnets unique. 📆19 March @ 4-5pm GMT / 11am-12pm EST 💻Online 🎟️ Free bit.ly/4rAz6zj

@CathiesCogitat1 The Thursday Seminars are one of the many benefits of studying at the Shakespeare Institute. They are also often academics' works in progress, so they cannot be made publicly accessible.

@ShakesInstitute It would be so wonderful if these could be streamed/recorded and accessible by subscription or similar. As a PhD student at University College Cork so many of these talks are of interest.

Today's Thursday Seminar welcomes home the extraordinary Professor Russell Jackson, who is talking about '"Ordinary" Shakespeare'. #russelljackson #Shakespeare #shakespeareinstitute

Did you know that our dear Professor Tiffany Stern's newest book, 'Ballad Business', is available to order? You do now! And it comes endorsed by no less a figure than Millie the whippet🐕 Get it from @CambridgeUP: cambridge.org/9781107179677 #publications

📣Join us this Thursday for our online Open Day! Register here: birmingham.ac.uk/events/shakesp…

Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Gain insights into inclusive pedagogy, including approaches related to race, disability, neurodiversity, gender and sexuality. 📆19 March @ 4-5pm GMT/11am-12pm EST 💻Online 🎟️ Free bit.ly/4rAz6zj

Congratulations to the Shakespeare Institute Players on their successful staging of the Comedy of Errors last week! What an entertaining show 🤩

"The Ides of March are come." The new Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Julius Caesar is out in May: bit.ly/4qeGDDb

It was a great pleasure to welcome back our long-term collaborators from @waseda_univ this week, and to have heard three truly excellent papers about Japanese Shakespeare on stage, on film and in the historical archive. Long may our research collaboration continue! #Shakespeare

Next online play reading! A cut version of Pericles, Prince of Tyre on 24 March at 4:15 pm (UK time). All SI distance learners, on-site students, staff members, and alumni are welcome to join: read or listen in😃 Details, Zoom link and script here: tinyurl.com/SI-Playreadings

Tomorrow we welcome visitors from Waseda University, Tokyo @ShakesInstitute. This is from the Daily Telegraph 27 Aug 1928 about Dr. Shoyo Tsubouchi's translation of Shakespeare into Japanese. His archive is now at Waseda.

@fundylady @hselftax Our official conversion route for those without a humanities degree is through one of our online short courses, which give a taste of what the MA will be like and a chance to write an essay. Passing the course qualifies you to study an MA with us😊 birmingham.ac.uk/study/short-co…

@hselftax @ShakesInstitute Out of interest, how did you meet the requirement for a related UG degree? Did you have something obviously related or is it interpreted quite broadly?

Can highly recommend doing a Masters at @ShakesInstitute . Brilliant staff, amazing library and great community.

Are you looking to start a postgraduate Shakespeare course in September? There's still time to apply for our scholarships, including our College of Arts and Law Masters Scholarships and the Diane Meyer Lowman Scholarship. Apply by Wednesday 25 March 2026: birmingham.ac.uk/about/college-…

We were honoured to welcome Whitney White for a Q&A at the Institute yesterday! Such an intelligent, delightful, lover of #Shakespeare. Here she is pictured next to the Moroccan Ambassador in the hall😍 Don't miss her phenomenal 'All is but Fantasy' @TheRSC! #whitneywhite #rsc

This Thursday Seminar we welcome Carmen Gallo from Sapienza University in Rome, who is talking about 'Translation and Retranslation of Romeo and Juliet in Italy' #shakespeare #translation #sapienzauniversitàdiroma

What a list of names! And featuring one or two of our own... (Spot Professor Tiffany Stern, who is attending this brilliant event in Texas!)

Professor Emma Smith (@UniofOxford) gives the 15th Annual @NotreDame #Shakespeare Lecture on the subject of 'Shakespeare Now (but not Hamlet)' in honour of Sir @stanley_wells and organised in collaboration with us, The Shakespeare Institute, and @ShakespeareBT.

The call for the SaM Summer School at @UniVerona (17-21 July 2026) is open and closes on May 9. It is a special edition: students will have the opportunity to attend the World Shakespeare Congress (#wsc2026), the Verona Shakespeare Fringe + shows & events! Spread the word! 🍀

The schedule and Zoom links for next week’s conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ are now available on our website: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

Disguised lovers, exiled brothers, multiple marriage plots, a wrestling bout & the famous Forest of Arden... Shakespeare's pastoral romance As You Like It, edited by Tom Bishop, comes to The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series in October! Find out more: bit.ly/3NKFEMW