This is online tomorrow! Time for some social Shakespeare fun to celebrate Twelfth Night 🥳 Everyone is welcome. tinyurl.com/SI-Playreadi... #Shakespere #online #playreading #twelfthnight

Happy New Year from a cold but beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon ❄️ Here's to another wonderful year of all things Shakespeare 🎉 #snow #Shakespeare #stratforduponavon

Shakespeare Institute Christmas party 2025! Pictured: -Professor Michael Dobson reading the names of this year's graduates -Professor Sir Stanley Wells gives out this year's prizes -Eddie Malone and the Footnotes return for a mercifully short set A fitting farewell to the year!

The final Thursday Seminar of the term is Patricia Lennox of @nyu.edu talking about Performing Visible Pregnancy in #Shakespeare's Plays. Social expectations and attitudes about #pregnancy dictate the way pregnant bodies are costumed in productions. Buy here!: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be co-leading (with Prof. Kristen Poole of the University of Delaware) a seminar about ‘Wordplay’ at next year’s International Shakespeare Conference @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

🎓It's graduation day!!!!🎓 🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to the Class of 2025!!🎉🎉🎉 We're so proud of you 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🥳

This week's Thursday Seminar welcomes one of our own, Professor Tom Lockwood, who's come from the main campus at The University of Birmingham to enlighten us about dramatic extracts from Twelfth Night in manuscripts from the turn of the (17th) century. #Christmas #twelfthnight #manuscript

Winter holiday entertainment: sorted! Don't miss our wonderful Professor Ewan Fernie in Channel 4's 'Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family, and Me' on December 27th at 9pm🎄🌟🤩 #judidench #Shakespeare #ewanfernie #Channel4

One for #throwbackthursday. Rehearsing at @shakesinstitute.bsky.social in 2017 #earlymusic #musicianlife #lute #earlymusicensemble

For today's very special Open Day Thursday Seminar, we welcome Dr Daniel Swift, representing the quality speakers we have every week at our beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon campus✨ The talk is about that theatre called The Theatre in London, and Shakespeare's early career. #danielswift #Shakespeare

London-based folk! Our Dr Jessica Chiba is giving a free talk on “‘Reason wonder may diminish’: Shakespeare and Aesthetic Freedom” at The London Aesthetics Forum next week. 📍Senate House 📅Thursday 27th November 🕟4:30pm 📝Sign up here: londonaestheticsforum.org?page_id=5012

For this week's Thursday Seminar, we are delighted to welcome back our alumnus José Perez Diaz, now an Associate Professor at @universityofleeds.bsky.social and joint chair of @bsashakespeare.bsky.social (pictured here with the Moroccan Ambassador, in front of whom he played Othello back in 2009)!

Recently published! A Midsummer Night's Dream: The State of Play, edited by Rebecca Bushnell, from @ardenpublisher.bsky.social featuring a chapter by our own Dr Jessica Chiba🎉 Available here: bloomsbury.com/uk/midsummer... #shakespeare #publication #publications #amidsummernightsdream #study

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

This today!!! Professor Tiffany Stern will be giving a talk on 'Shakespeare's Ballad Business' at Merton College, Oxford. 📆Tuesday 11th November 🕔5.15pm-7.15pm 📍T S Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford The event is open to ALL, and includes refreshments 🥂 (so go go go!)

What's better than Professor Tiffany Stern talking about #ballads? Professor Tiffany Stern talking about ballads, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. TODAY. With Bill Barclay from The Globe Theatre Check it out👇👇👇 #shakespeare #RutgersUniversity #music #earlymodernmusic #theglobe #lute

A lovely video featuring interviews with The Shakespeare Institute Players and Professor Michael Dobson during their recent visit to Fuzhou 🇨🇳 youtu.be/FMG7abbsHCM?si…#Shakespearer#tangxianzuz#fuzhouo#dramama

In this week's Thursday Seminar, Professor Sir Jonathan Bate of Arizona State University amusingly and insightfully thinks about the role of #AI in #Shakespeare research through an AI-generated Love's Labour's Won, complete with a student performance of Claude.ai's creative(?) work.

Some more photographic records of the Shakespeare Institute Players' triumphant China tour of the Peony Pavilion! #Shakespeare #china #TangXianzu #PeonyPavilion #intercultural #china

The Shakespeare Institute Players are currently in China, touring English-translated extracts from The Peony Pavilion, a great classic written by #TangXianzu, #Shakespeare's Chinese contemporary! What an experience.

I’m honored to be part of this important series and in conversation with Choctaw playwright Randy Reinholz next Tuesday, October 14th at 10am CDT / 4pm BST. Many thanks to Xin Lim for the invitation. Please join us!

Coming Soon! Indigenizing Shakespeare Speaker Series hosted by Xin Ying Lim, our Visiting Fellow and @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded doctoral researcher at the @universityofhull.bsky.social 🔹Tuesdays, Oct–Dec 2025, 4–5pm UK Time 🔹Online 👉 For speaker lineup and registration: forms.gle/iVctbVJ2MCoE...

📣Check out our brilliant Dr Erin Sullivan's new article, just published in 'Adaptation' (@adaptstudies.bsky.social)🎉🎉🎉 'Adaptation as reception—or, Lady Bird as The Tempest': academic.oup.com/adaptation/a... #Shakespeare #Adaptation #Ladybird #GretaGerwig #TheTempest #Publications

The first Thursday Seminar of the term is traditionally given by the director of the Shakespeare Institute. How lucky we are to have Professor Michael Dobson talking about 'The Life of King Henry the Fifth: Shakespeare, Popular Memory, and Royal Memory' - we have a great turnout!

Welcome to our new and returning students to a new academic year at The Shakespeare Institute! We're looking forward to thinking about #Shakespeare with you all 🥰 #MA #ShakespeareInstitute #postgrad #postgraduate

📢CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED📢 The 'Shakespeare in a Polarised World' Conference, taking place in Brussels, March 2026, will be accepting abstracts until the 30th September (ignore date on website): waseda.jp/inst/brussels-…#cfpf#Shakespearer#conferencece

Check out our wonderful Dr Simon Smith's recent blog post about the history of Twelfth Night in indoor and outdoor spaces. Available on the @folger.edu blog here: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes... #twelfthnight #folger #Shakespeare #theatre

🌻 Sunflowers -- a symbol of Ukraine, much celebrated in the poetry of Ivan Franko -- blooming in the Institute garden to mark our continuing partnership with Ivan Franko National University in Lviv 🇺🇦

The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History of Science & Technology with a focus on Western Europe and/or its empires, starting August 16 2026. Apply by October 1, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/search... #Skystorians

#JobKlaxon: One year fixed-term lectureship in Shakespeare Studies @cemskcl.bsky.social (1 Sept 2025-31 August 2026. Apply by 27th July 2025. #Skystorians #Shax www.rensoc.org.uk/event/fixed-...

A wonderful evening! Tiffany and Laura (alumni relations) met great #Shakespeare Institute alumni and prospective students in New York🗽 With them was the fabulous alumna Diane Meyer Lowman, who has generously set up a #scholarship for international MA students: www.birmingham.ac.uk/funding/post...

Professor Tiffany Stern will be in New York and looks forward to seeing Past, Present and Potential Future students! Everyone welcome! She's the best drinking companion + drinks are on us🍸 🗺️Manhattan, New York 📅Saturday 12 July 2025 🕧18:00-21:00 🖋️Register here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

“When people are on the verge of tears anyway, tragedy goes to a different level” Professor Michael Dobson quoted in @theguardian.com piece covering the remarkable Ukraine Shakepeare Festival 🇺🇦: www.theguardian.com/.../shakespe.... #Shakespeare #ukraine #festival

Call for Papers. Conference: Shakespeare in a Polarized World. Location and dates: WBO, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels. 6 – 9 March 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...