Shakespeare Lectures

In 1910 Mrs Frida Mond established ‘the nucleus of a fund which may hereafter be enlarged, to be devoted to the furtherance of research and criticism, historical, philological, and philosophical, in the various branches of English Literature’. One fruit of the fund was the foundation of this lecture series – on ‘some Shakespearean subject, philosophical, historical, or philological, or some problem in English dramatic literature and histrionic art, or some study in literature of the age of Shakespeare’. The lecture was first delivered in 1911.

SHAKESPEARE LECTURES (2002 onwards)
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2012  Shakespeare and the Reformation, by Brian Cummings

2011  Mind the Gap: Making Meaning in the Theatre, by Laurie Maguire

2010  ‘Enter Caelia, the Fairy Queen in her Night Attire’: Shakespeare and the Fairies, by Michael Hattaway

2009  Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows, by John Kerrigan

2008  Was Shakespeare an Essex Man? by Jonathan Bate

2007  Hamlet's Two Fathers, by David Bevington

2006  Shakespeare, Jonson and the Invention of the Author, by Ian Donaldson

2005  Staging Matters: Shakespeare, the Director, and the Theatre Historian, by Alan C Dessen

2004  Barnardine's Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare's Detail, by Michael Pennington

2003  The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text, by H R Woudhuysen

2002  Shakespeare and the Anagram, by Christopher Ricks

2001  A World Elsewhere: Shakespeare's Sense of an Exit, by Richard Wilson