Winter School: 13Th to 16Th January 2020
Winter School: 13th to 16th January 2020
Monday 13th January
From 12.00 noon Registration at the Mercure Shakespeare Hotel, Chapel Street, Stratford-upon-Avon
12.15 to 1.45 pm Buffet lunch at the Mercure Shakespeare Hotel
2.00 pm Welcome and introduction by Nick Walton at the Shakespeare Centre
2.10 pm ‘Early Modern English conceptions of Islam and the Ottoman Empire’ [Professor Matthew Dimmock, University of Sussex]
3.00 pm Tea and biscuit break [James 1 Lounge and Wolfson bar area]
3.30 to 4.30 pm Theatre Music: Guy Woolfenden [Dr Leah Broad, Christ Church, Oxford University]
7.30 pm Performance of A Museum in Baghdad at the Swan Theatre
Tuesday 14th January
9.45 am Post-performance discussion of A Museum in Baghdad Group 1 – Queen Elizabeth Hall Group 2 – Wolfson Hall
10.30 am Coffee and biscuit break [James 1 Lounge and Wolfson bar area]
11.00 am Panel discussion on ‘Shakespeare and Museums’ Chaired by Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust with Professor Ewan Fernie, Shakespeare Institute, Ros Sklar, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Helen Hopkins, PhD research student
12.00 noon Lunch (own arrangements)
1.30 pm Question and answer session with a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company on A Museum in Baghdad
2.30 pm Tea and biscuit break [James 1 Lounge and Wolfson bar area]
3.00 to 4.00 pm ‘The Boy in the Dress: Shakespeare and Costume’ [Patricia Lennox, Co-editor of ‘Shakespeare and Costume’]
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7.00 pm Performance of The Boy in the Dress at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Wednesday 15th January
10.00 am ‘King John: Then and Now’ [Dr Nick Walton and Dr Darren Freebury-Jones, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust]
10.30 am Coffee and biscuit break [James 1 Lounge and Wolfson bar area]
11.00 am ‘King John in the Archives’ [Dr Anjna Chouhan, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust]
12.00 noon Lunch (own arrangements)
1.30 pm Pre-performance talk on King John [Dr Robert Smallwood]
2.30 pm Tea and biscuit break [James 1 Lounge and Wolfson bar area]
3.00 to 4.00 pm ‘King John’s Reign’ [Dr Marc Morris, author of King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta]
7.30 pm Performance of King John at the Swan Theatre
Thursday 16th January
10.00 am Post-performance discussion of King John Group 1 – Queen Elizabeth Hall Group 2 – Wolfson Hall
11.00 am Coffee and biscuit break [James 1 Lounge and bar area]
11.30 am Question and answer session with a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company on King John
12.30 pm approx. Programme ends
Displays on boards provided by our Collections Team.
Winter School participants are also very welcome to explore our collection in the Reading Room during breaks in the programme. The Reading Room is open from 10-4.30 Wednesday to Friday and from 9.30 to 12.30 on Saturday mornings. Come in to look at reviews, archive materials relating to past productions, peruse our new book display or to find out more about Stratford-upon-Avon or William Shakespeare.
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SPEAKERS
Dr Anjna Chouhan is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, where she teaches Shakespeare and his contemporaries to schools, universities and enthusiasts from around the world, and acts as dramaturge for the in- house performance teams. Anjna specialises in Shakespeare reception and performance in the 19th century and edited the Pickering and Chatto sourcebook on Henry Irving for the Lives of Shakespearian Actors series (2012). Anjna is a Shakespeare consultant for the BBC, appearing on Great British Railway Journeys, Songs of Praise, and acting as lead Shakespearian for their digital project, ShakespeareMe, which allows users to select emojis in order to generate a corresponding Shakespeare quotation. She has contributed chapters to Dorling Kindersley’s Shakespeare Book (2015) and Bloomsbury’s 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu’s China (2016). As well as working with Cambridge Schools Shakespeare and Digital Theatre, Anjna has featured in Massive Open Online Courses with the RSC and British Council, respectively. Anjna delivers talks for the National Theatre to support their Shakespeare productions (including Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra – 2018), and she co-devised the Shakespeare edition of Trivial Pursuit with her colleague, Dr Nick Walton. Anjna is currently developing the Shakespedia content on the Trust's website (www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia).
Dr Leah Broad is a music lecturer at Christ Church, St John’s, and Queen’s Colleges at the University of Oxford. Her research is focused on incidental music, particularly on Scandinavian incidental music of the early twentieth century. Leah is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and won the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism for an article on Sibelius. She is also the founder and editor of The Oxford Culture Review, a website dedicated to arts and humanities research. Leah’s writing has appeared on online platforms such as the Huffington Post, The Observer, The Conversation, and Corymbus.
Professor Matthew Dimmock completed a BA and MA in English at the University of Leeds before spending three years at Royal Holloway, University of London, studying for a PhD. His thesis explored the ways in which Islam and the Ottoman Empire were understood in early modern English culture - particularly how the 'terrible Turk' was represented on the professional stage. After completing his PhD Matthew took up a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands during which time he undertook courses in early Dutch, worked in the National Archives in The Hague, and taught on the MA in European Expansion. Upon his return to the UK he continued his research as Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, for a few months in the summer of 2003. After which he took up a position as Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex, becoming Professor of Early Modern Studies in early 2013.
Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon- Avon Poetry Festival for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of many books and articles about Shakespeare, including The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography (with Stanley Wells for Cambridge University Press), Shakespeare’s Creative Legacies (with Peter Holbrook for The Arden Shakespeare); and Finding Shakespeare’s New Place: an archaeological biography (with archaeologists Kevin Colls and William Mitchell for Manchester University Press). His Shakespeare: Ideas in Profile is an overview of Shakespeare for the general reader, and a collection of his Shakespeare-related poetry, Destination Shakespeare has recently appeared (www.misfitpress.co : the publishers donate a pair of prescription spectacles to a child in India for each copy sold). He is currently working on New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity (with Ewan Fernie, The Arden Shakespeare, 2018). He is Chair of the Hosking Houses Trust for women writers, a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Shakespeare Birthplace Trust – Winter School 2020
Association, and a priest in the Church of England. He has lived and worked in Stratford- upon- Avon since 1995. @paul_edmondson
Professor Ewan Fernie is Chair of Shakespeare Studies and Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, where he devised and co-convened the Institute’s MA in Shakespeare and Creativity. He is also Director of the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project, which is using Birmingham’s forgotten past to inspire our future. The project aims to unlock the world’s first great people’s Shakespeare library for all. After completing his PhD at the University of St Andrews, Ewan previously taught at Queen’s University, Belfast and the Royal Holloway, University of London before moving to the Shakespeare Institute.
Dr Darren Freebury-Jones is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies (International – USA) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. His role involves building and developing relationships with schools, universities, and organisations in the USA through regular teaching tours; working on the Trust’s online educational resources; as well as lecturing at the Shakespeare Centre. His 2016 doctoral thesis examined Thomas Kyd’s influence on Shakespeare’s early work and he is one of the editors for the first edition of Kyd’s collected works since 1901. He has also investigated the boundaries of John Marston’s dramatic corpus as part of the Oxford Marston project. His recent and forthcoming work on the plays of authors such as Shakespeare, Kyd, Lyly, Marlowe, Peele, Nashe, Marston, Dekker, Fletcher, and others can be found in such journals as American Notes and Queries, Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Authorship,Journal of Early Modern Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Notes and Queries, Renaissance and Reformation, Studia Metrica et Poetica, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language.
Dr Patricia Lennox edited a volume of articles, Shakespeare and Costume, for the Arden Shakespeare series in 2019. Her articles have been included in numerous Shakespeare publications, and she edited As You Like It for the New Kitteredge Shakespeare Series. Her articles and reviews appear regularly in Studies in Costume and Performance. She has taught at New York University in New York, London, and Florence.
Dr Marc Morris is a historian who specializes in the Middle Ages. He studied and taught history at the universities of London and Oxford, and his doctorate on the thirteenth- century earls of Norfolk was published in 2005. An expert on medieval monarchy and aristocracy, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Marc has written numerous articles for History Today and BBC History Magazine. In 2003, he presented the acclaimed television series ‘Castle’ and wrote its accompanying book. Subsequently, he has written a biography of Edward I, published in 2008 as ‘A Great and Terrible King’, a history of the Norman Conquest and most recently, ‘King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta’. Marc regularly talks at museums and literary festivals, and is a popular television pundit.
Rosalyn Sklar is Museum Collections Officer at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Since 2010, Rosalyn has been in charge of managing and caring for the Trust's important collection of museum artefacts relating to Shakespeare's work, life, times and legacy. Before coming to the Trust Rosalyn worked at The Royal Shakespeare Company as Assistant Curator, The Science Museum (London) as Associate Curator of Medicine and Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum as Curatorial Assistant.
Dr Robert Smallwood is an Honorary Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute. He is the editor of King John in the Penguin Shakespeare and (with Stanley Wells) of The Shoemaker’s Holiday in the Revels Plays. He has written widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and has lectured on Shakespeare at universities around Europe and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust – Winter School 2020
United States. He was for many years General Editor of the Revels Plays Companion Library, and created and was general editor of the Arden ‘Shakespeare at Stratford’ series (in which his own book on As You Like It was published in 2002). He was also for many years editor of the Players of Shakespeare series, of which a sixth and last volume was published in 2004 (and in paperback in 2007). He spent many years writing review articles on British Shakespeare productions, first for Shakespeare Quarterly and then for Shakespeare Survey.
Dr Nick Walton is Shakespeare Courses Development Manager at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. As Executive Secretary to the International Shakespeare Association he helped organise the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth World Shakespeare Congresses in Brisbane (2006), Prague (2011), and Stratford/London (2016). Nick has written introductory material for the Penguin editions of Timon of Athens and Love’s Labour’s Lost, and contributed chapters to Director’s Shakespeare, The Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia, 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China, and Dorling Kindersley’s The Shakespeare Book and The Literature Book. Nick is co-author of The Shakespeare Wallbook, a giant version of which can be viewed in the Birthplace garden. He has worked with Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Boston USA) on two of their Shakespearian productions, and has been a guest speaker at the British Museum, Central School of Speech and Drama, The Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, Boston Athenaeum, and the National Theatre. Nick was one of the presenters for the RSC’s Hamlet web resource produced by the BBC, and for their Massive Open Online Courses on Much Ado About Nothing and Othello.
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