Contact:  Ariel Cleasby-Heaven, Western Washington University, at Ariel.Cleasby-Heaven@wwu.edu or 360-650-3717. BELLINGHAM ­– Western Washington University’s Academy for Lifelong Learning (A.L.L.) is hosting a preview event of their fall courses and excursions from 1-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7 at St. Luke’s Community Health Education Center Meeting Room A, 3333 Squalicum Parkway in Bellingham. A.L.L.’s...
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The Marlowe Society will host a lecture titled “The Ruin of a Multitude: Marlowe’s Jew of Malta” on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 11:00am at The Rose Theatre, Bankside, 56 Park Street, London, SE1 9AS. (The nearest station is London Bridge.) The speaker will be Andrew Duxfield. There will be no charge and the...
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Former Southern Oregon University professor, Liz Eckhart, will host Ashland Independent Shakespeare Seminars this summer on Wednesday evenings at the Ashland Community Library in Oregon.  Eckhart’s first seminar, on July 24, discussed The Merchant of Venice. From the Seminar website:   The Ashland Independent Shakespeare Seminar is a series of public lectures and discussions meant...
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010, a Joint LFAS and Digital Text & Scholarship Seminar Venue: Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) Time: 17:30 – 19:00 Speakers: Michael Whitmore (University of Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Profiling Genres in the Corpus of Early English Drama’ Jointly organised by  London Forum for Authorship Studies and the Digital Text & Scholarship Research Seminar....
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Members of the public can take advantage of the opportunity to receive a behind-the-scenes look into stage combat, period costuming, stage directing, acting, and more when the Redlands Shakespeare festival offers its popular Educational Workshop Series as part of the 2009 Season of Vengeance. The fifth annual festival opens Thursday, May 7, and continues...
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Columbia University will host an Early Modern Seminar by Bradin Cormack (Chicago) titled “On Sentences in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. The seminar will be held at 6:15pm at 612 Philosophy Hall. Contact Alan Stewart for more information.
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Join the Folger Shakespeare Library for a free discussion with author Sarah Schmelling on Friday, May 21, 2010, at 6:30pm. Author Sarah Schmelling discusses her humorous book Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don’t Float. Tales from The Odyssey to Hamlet to The Great Gatsby to Lolita are “retold” via Facebook. Everyone from Ernest...
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English Professor to Deliver Lindberg Lecture on Othello April 29 By Lori Wright, Media Relations April 21, 2010 Doug Lanier, professor of English and recipient of the 2009 Lindberg Award, will deliver the Lindberg Lecture Thursday, April 29, 2010. The highest award of the College of Liberal Arts, the Lindberg Award is given annually...
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‘Enter Cælia, the Fairy Queen in her night attire’: Shakespeare and the Fairies The 2010 British Academy Shakespeare Lecture, given by Professor Michael Hattaway 6.00pm, Thursday, 22 April 2010 Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 Do you believe in fairies? We all remember the fraught declaration made in Peter Pan (1904): ‘Every...
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In addition to the Folger Shakespeare Library lecture, the Shakespeare’s Globe, and the Actor’s Shakespeare Project events, here are some upcoming celebrations taking place in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23: In the United States –  The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virgina, offers a free birthday party to all ages as well as a reading of seven short...
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