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König Lear / King Lear Shakespeare’s tragedy about the ageing King Lear is based on the figure of the legendary British King Leir from pre-Roman times. The story of the king, who hands over his kingdom to two of his daughters and is rejected by them, is multi-layered: a drama that is not only about…
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König Heinrich IV, Teil 1 / King Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part I (first printed in 1598) owes its fame and enduring traction as a play not to the king of the title, who came to power through injustice and rules his country with difficulty, but to the character of Sir John Falstaff,…
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Die zwei Herren aus Verona – The Two Gentlemen of Verona Trying to steal your best friend’s girlfriend is considered ungentlemanly even among today’s young people; even wanting to rape your friend’s girlfriend can jeopardise any male friendship. You can only rely on the feelings of women to bring everything to a good end. As…
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Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus, one of the most successful stage plays of Shakespeare’s time, is a horror play which, because of its grotesque and extremely bloody content, was long attributed to Shakespeare only reluctantly and with a sneer, but for the same reason has in more recent times repeatedly become the basis for modern adaptations…
read moreESRA 2025 Shakespeare and Time: the retrieved pasts, the envisaged futures, 14-18 July 2025, Utrecht ESRA 2025 Conference ESRA hosts its main conference every two years to bring together applied survey researchers, methodologists, and statisticians from Europe and beyond. The conference showcases the latest survey research and offers a number of professional development opportunities, including…
read moreWorld Shakespeare Congress 2026, Verona Find the congress’s website here. Pre-registrations are open NOW until September 15, 2025. Pre-register here. From the congress’s website: The 2026 World Shakespeare Congress will mark the International Shakespeare Association’s 50th anniversary. Let us celebrate together in fair Verona, Italy, where, from July 20th to 26th 2026, Shakespeareans will gather in this beautiful…
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Shakespeare and Popular Cultures The Spring Conference centres on the topic Shakespeare and Popular Cultures and will be taking place from 25-27 April 2025 in Weimar. On the evening before the official beginning of the conference, on Thursday, 24 April, the award ceremony of the German Shakespeare Prize will take place at 6 pm in the…
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Troilus and Cressida The autumn conference will centre on Troilus and Cressida, or, to quite Michael Dobson’s paper title, „the most unperformed performed play in world drama“. Addressed to an „eternal reader“, placed between tragedies and histories in the Folio Edition, often referred to as problem play or „bitter war comedy“ – Troilus and Cressida…
read morePREMIERES JULY 2025 Nürnberg, Gostner Hoftheater (Gostner Jugendclub): 09.07.2025, Jeder Hengst kriegt seine Stute – alles Gute! (Ein Sommernachtstraum) R.: Amelie Benz & Christin Wehner, B. & K.: Gostner Peer Group. Trier, Theater Trier (Open-Air): 03.07.2025, Sommernachtstraum. R.: William Danne, B.: Darko Petrovic, K.: Yvonne Wallitzer. PREMIERES JUNE 2025 Bruchsal, Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal (Sinsheim, Buchenauerhof): 04.06.2025, Was ihr wollt. R.: Jürgen Lingmann.…
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Dieses Jahrbuch widmet sich dem Thema “Shakespeares Bibliotheken” in all seiner historischen und materiellen Vielfalt. Der erste Beitrag von Brian Cummings nimmt den Akt des Lesens bei Shakespeare in den Blick und verortet ihn in der europäischen Literatur- und Kunstgeschichte. Eva von Contzen präsentiert Shakespeare als ‘mittelalterlichen’ Autor, dessen Stücke in den Heiligenlegenden des Mittelalters…
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