Victoria and Albert Study Day: An Audience with Shakespeare

Saturday 3 May 2014, 11.00 – 16.30, Seminar Room 3

11.00 – 11.45 ‘Life on the Southbank’
Professor Andy Gurr, University of Reading

11.50 – 12.35 ‘Into the Playhouses’
Professor Andy Gurr, University of Reading

12.35 – 13.35 Lunch

13.35 – 14.20 ‘Audience Comforts and Goodies’
Professor Tiffany Stern, University of Oxford

14.20 – 15.05 ‘Stagecraft & Special Effects’
Dr Will Tosh, Shakespeare’s Globe

15.05 – 15.35 Tea and Coffee

15.35 – 16.20 ‘Before the First Act; After the Last’
Professor Tiffany Stern, University of Oxford

16.20 – 16.30 Q&A

£45, £35 concessions, £15 students Including V&A students
Call V&A Bookings 020 7942 2525 or visit www.vam.ac.uk/courses

Hoffman, or Hamlet without the Prince, September 2010

A day conference including a performance and a panel discussion of Henry Chettle’s play Hoffman, or a Revenge for a Father. Participants include Elisabeth Dutton, Brian Gibbons, Andrew Gurr, John Jowett, George Oppitz-Trotman, Tom Rutter, and Emma Smith.

The conference will take place in the auditorium at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 10-5 on Saturday 25th September 2010. It is generously supported by the Malone Society, the Oxford English Faculty, and Magdalen College.

Registration, including lunch, is £25, with £15 registration for students. Register online at www.english.ox.ac.uk  ( follow ‘Events’).

Further enquiries can be directed to Emma Smith (emma.smith@hertford.ox.ac.uk).