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Setting the Scene
Leading international scholars provide introductions to the evening play.
Selected Tuesdays.
Romeo & Juliet
11 Aug Professor Neil Taylor, Roehampton University
18 Aug Dr Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
As You Like It
15 Sept Professor David Lindley, University of Leeds
22 Sept Professor Henry Woudhuysen, University College London
Troilus and Cressida
14 July Dr Clare McManus, Roehampton University
Clare McManus is Reader in English Literature at Roehampton University, London. Her book, Women on the Renaissance Stage (2002) analyses the performances of Queen Anna of Denmark (wife of King James I). She is also editor of Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens (2003), co-editor of Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader (2005) and writes on a broad range of Renaissance theatre for companion and teaching volumes. She is currently editing The Island Princess, a play of colonial conquest in the ‘Spice Islands’ of Indonesia by Shakespeare’s collaborator John Fletcher, for Arden Early Modern Drama.
21 July Dr Bridget Escolme, Queen Mary, University of London
28 July Professor Tom Healy, University of Sussex
1 Sept Professor Ann Thompson, King’s College London
8 Sept Dr Paul Prescott, University of Warwick
Love’s Labour’s Lost
29 Sept Michael Cordner, University of York
6 Oct Dr Ewan Fernie, Royal Holloway, University of London
Time: 6.00pm - 6.45pm
Tickets: £5 (£4 FoSG/concs, £3 students)
Venue: Nancy W Knowles Lecture Theatre
Globe Education is indebted to the Arden Shakespeare for sponsoring this series of lectures.