Shakespeare Institute

17/06/2026

📣 Calling all alumni!

Join us for the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Shakespeare Institute🥳

📅Thursday 16 July 2026
🕟16:30-18:00
📍Great Garden at New Place, 22 Chapel St, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EP

The event is aligned with our biennial International Shakespeare Conference, so over 100 renowned international Shakespearean scholars will also be attending, alongside Shakespeare Institute academic staff and students.

There will be food and drink, so you can raise a glass to celebrate this momentous occasion with us 🥂

We hope you will be able to join us. If you are an alumnus, please message us for a link to register your attendance by Tuesday 30th June.

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31/05/2026

Professor Marta Gibinska, Professor Carol Chillington Rutter and Professor Michael Dobson leading the post-show discussion about his puppet Venus and Adonis with Sir Gregory Doran.

Fascinating discussion about puppetry, emotion, rehearsal, text and Bunraku.

31/05/2026

Professor Michael Dobson () on the global stage (aka the marionette stage of Venus and Adonis), presenting the Craiova Shakespeare Festival Award to Sir Gregory Doran.

29/05/2026

Professor Michael Dobson interviews Sir Gregory Doran, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company about his life as a Shakespeare director at the launch of the Romanian translation of his book, My Shakespeare: A Director's Journey through the First Folio, translated by Sorin Cazacu.

Craiova International Shakespeare Festival

28/05/2026

What better start to the day than hearing Professor Michael Dobson () talk about Venus and Adonis as 'thinking soft p**n' at the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival!

12/05/2026

12/05/2026

Saturday, June 14, 2025 from 10:00-19:00 BSTGarrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK About the event For the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, a loose association of thin…

11/05/2026

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.

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