Shakespeare Institute

@ShakesInstitute

The University of Birmingham's (@unibirmingham) dedicated Shakespeare research centre in Stratford-upon-Avon

The best place in the world to study Shakespeare.

Stratford-upon-Avon, England birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/… Joined November 2011

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Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute 2d

Next Tuesday! Tiffany is talking about her brilliant ballad research at the Shakespeare Club in Stratford.
Free for all Shakespeare Institute students, but well worth the modest entry price for anyone else!
stratfordshakespeareclub.org/current-talks

Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute Oct 31

Some gorgeous photographs from last week's 'Shakespeare's Cosmos' event at The Exchange in Birmingham, featuring our stellar PhD students Lousia Pickard and Kibria Nasir in conversation with our Brilliant Dr Simon Smith under the warm light of the phenomenal Helios installation☀️

Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute Oct 29

This week, Víctor Huertas-Martín of @UV_EG is discussing memory, archival work and Shakespeare in the Spanish cinema, focusing especially on El Abuelo, an adaptation of King Lear 🇪🇦
#Shakespeare #Spain #ElAbuelo #Galdos

Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute Oct 23

The project isn't exactly about turning Shakespeare's works into video games, but our wonderful 'boffins' (read: Professor Erin Sullivan and Dr Sarah Olive) certainly deserve attention from every news outlet! thesun.co.uk/news/40740185/…

Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute Oct 22

For this week's Thursday Seminar, Dr Sophie Mann, a historian of medicine, is giving an amazingly informative account of the connection between religion and health in the early modern period, exploring religious divide, chronic illness, "double health", and "double cure".