“Why, this is very midsummer madness.” - Twelfth Night, 3.4 #SummerSolstice https://bit.ly/4vIf8UW

We're proud supporters of the @britgrad.bsky.social conference, taking place TODAY @shakesinstitute.bsky.social To mark the occasion, we’ve published our 2026 #Shakespeare Studies reading list, featuring two new Revels Plays Companion Library titles, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06...

Our grads certainly know how to put on a p̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ conference! Mr Sunshine agrees🌞

📣 Calling all alumni! Join us and 100+ worldwide Shakespeareans for the Shakespeare Institute's 75th Birthday🥳 📅Thursday 16 July 2026 🕟16:30-18:00 📍New Place Garden, 22 Chapel St, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EPP Please message for a link to register by Tuesday 30th June.

How proud we are that so many Shakespeare Institute academics have been part of the history of these editions! Run, don't walk, to the bookshop🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK - tickets available now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespear...

Open day at the Shakespeare Institute! What a treat to have a taster lecture from Professor Ewan Fernie (of TV documentary fame!) who is intellectually revisiting 1606; considering the plays that were being written at the time. #Shakespeare #shakespeareinstitute #openday #1606

🎭 Funded PhD opportunity! Dr Erin Sullivan is leading a PhD project on digital transformation in the UK performing arts, in collaboration with Stan’s Cafe & Dr Ben Spatz ✅ Written or practice‑based 🎬 Topic: filmed theatre / film‑in‑theatre ⏰ Deadline: 27 May 🔗 findaphd.com/phds/project... #FundedPhD

Study Shakespeare with us! It's not too late for you (or someone you know) to sign up for our open day next Monday📣 In-person or online, come along for a day of information, socialising, and a lecture by Professor Ewan Fernie (of TV documentary fame!) www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/shake...

What a beautiful weekend to celebrate the birthday of our favourite playwright! Our staff and students joined the annual parade to lay flowers on the grave of #Shakespeare at Holy Trinity Church. #ShakespeareBirthday #Studentexperience #Postgraduatestudies #StratforduponAvon

Our Professor Michael Dobson is one of the many distinguished people speaking at the 3rd 'Shakespeare at the UN' online celebration of English language day! Tune in tomorrow for the perfect celebration of Shakespeare's birthday!! www.un.org/en/observanc...

Yesterday Professor Tiffany Stern spoke at this sold-out @beyondshakes.bsky.social live show on The Book of Sir Thomas More, sponsored by the @malonesociety.bsky.social Check them out and sign up to their podcast for some recordings of this fascinating event👂 beyondshakespeare.org/the-book-of-...

Our brilliant Dr Chris Laoutaris will be interviewing Sir Gregory Doran, former artistic director of @the-rsc.bsky.social about his new book, 'Walking Shadow' at @stationerscomms.bsky.social on 23 April from 6:15pm What a way to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday😍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-loss-...

Our amazing Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Dr Tracy Irish, with Manuela Perteghella MP for Stratford-upon-Avon, met Georgia Gould MP, the Minister for School Standards, to discuss learning opportunities for #Shakespeare in BSL and to campaign for #BSL as an assessment language.

Today is the final Thursday Seminar of this term! We are delighted to welcome back Dr Ronan Hatfull of the University of Warwick, a member of our inaugural Shakespeare and Creativity MA 🥰 Here he is with his new book! Buy it! #reducedshakespearecompany #Shakespeare #alumni

In Illyria, a shipwreck tears two siblings apart and sets off a chain of mistaken identities and confused desires. Edited by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, this edition foregrounds Twelfth Night’s queer potential and explores madness, mourning and migration. Coming this winter: https://bit.ly/4bKgSoi

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 @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/9781107179677 #publications

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

👆🏼 Reminder: This Sunday, 22 March, #DSG president @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social will speak with #Gwendolyne #Melchinger about #Hamlet at #Schauspiel #Stuttgart. Come and see 'Who's there'! 👻

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 by @authorajhartley.bsky.social is out in May! Pre-order your copy: https://bit.ly/4qeGDDb

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-Playreadi... #ShakespeareSunday

A beautiful day to be blessed by such great company!

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' @the-rsc.bsky.social #whitneywhite #rsc

Oooh! So pleased to see Ellie Collins’ book out in our series!! Such wonderful repertory work! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/ CC @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

So proud to welcome back Dr Lucy Holehouse, who completed her PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, from @royalholloway.bsky.social for this week's Thursday Seminar! It's all about entertainment at the livery companies of London during the plague year of 1603. #earlymodern #entertainment #dekker

Professor Tiffany Stern continues her German tour with a talk on Tarlton in Dusseldorf tonight 🤡 📃"Clowning Around: Richard Tarlton in and Beyond the Playhouse" 📆 27th January 2026 📍Gerhardt-Hauptmann-Haus, Room 412 Ostpreussen, Dusseldorf 🕡 19:00

Attention, those in Bonn, Professor Tiffany Stern is in town tonight📣 📃“Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton and the Puppets” 📆 26th January 2026 📍FGS Flick Gocke Schaumburg, Bonn 🕡 18:30 🔗 shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/vortrag-von-...

What an honour it was to welcome the multi-talented Director Simon Evans to our Thursday Seminar! Here he is talking about his recent phenomenal production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the RSC. We eagerly await his next foray into Shakespeare! #simonevans #rsc #cyranodebergerac

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.