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“Error and Absurdity in Shakespeare’s First Folio” Shakespeare’s First Folio is so important that it is often thought to be good: John PayneCollier called it a “credit to the age, even as a specimen of typography”. But the First Folio has some notable blunders, from its poorly spaced preliminary matter onwards. My lecture will investigate…
read moreThe Shakespeare Seminar will take place during the Shakespeare Days 2024 in Bochum, from 19 to 21 April. Call for Papers.
read moreThe President of the German Shakespeare Society, Prof. Claudia Olk, was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In addition, Prof. Olk was awarded the Werner Heisenberg Medal by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on March 23. The award was made “in recognition of her special services in the promotion of…
read moreTo the registration form The first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays appeared in 1623 under the title Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Prior to this, only a few of Shakespeare’s plays had ever been published. Without the ‘First Folio’, much of Shakespeare’s work, including plays such as Macbeth and The Tempest, would…
read moreThis year’s Shakespeare Academy (more information in the flyer) will take place in the run-up to the conference on April 20 and 21. Using the example of Shakespeare’s late play The Tempest, the student workshop participants will examine how the stage text deals with its own mediality and with the role of magical books, which…
read morewill be held online, 10-12 November 2022 see details in the Asian Shakespeare Newsletter
read moreConference in Leuven, 26-27 June 2023 Further information can be found here.
read moreThe lectures were recorded and can be accessed via the YouTube-channel of the German Shakespeare Society: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1Afp2gwz4Jo4FmLg24LAg Programme 16.6.22 Christa Schuenke: Wieland’s Shakespeare – a case of eloquent silence Why did Wieland omit so much from his Shakespeare? A few thoughts on the presence of the translator in the absent. Christa Schuenke lives in Berlin…
read moreWe are pleased to bring you a video greeting from Stratford-upon-Avon, in which Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells present their new book “All the Sonnets of Shakespeare” to the members of the German Shakespeare Society. You can find it on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1Afp2gwz4Jo4FmLg24LAg
read moreThe German Shakespeare Society mourns the loss of the English scholar Prof. em. Dr. Wilhelm Hortmann. He taught English literature at the universities of Frankfurt, Duisburg and Santa Barbara. After his retirement, Prof. Hortmann worked as a theater historian and author. He preferred to deal with the intersection of culture and politics, with a particular…
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