The Folger looks into some under-explored history.

This post is part of a series marking the print and online Open Access (free) publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, …

Using the tools of premodern critical race studies and whiteness studies, this article brings to critical visibility the Black women Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice evokes in passing, only to leav...

Thanks to the pioneering work of Professor Lisa Hopkins, the field of early modern English drama is now much more attuned to the various edges, spaces, and intersections that characterise the dramatic...

Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain

Online colloquium

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Winter's Tale from Oxford World's Classics.

Shakespeare mentions dragons over 5 times in his plays, and all of his descriptions give fearsome images and terrifying attributes.

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Site-Specific Shakespeare

Can Trojan War hero Odysseus return home before his wife is forced to marry again?