London Shakespeare Seminar

LSS: Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Monday 22 January: 5.15-7pm

Speakers:

• Line Cottegnies (Paris Sorbonne), ‘Henry’s “Bruised helmet”: Armour and Weaponry in Henry V’
• Liam Semler (Sydney), ‘SysEd vs Ardenspace: The Evolution and Aims of the Imaginarium Learning Modules on the Shakespeare Reloaded Website’

All welcome. The session consists of two 25-minute papers, followed by shared questions and then a glass of wine.


London Shakespeare Seminars

This long-established annual seminar series provides a wide and significant intellectual/social resource for early modernists in the London area. Seminars will take place at 17.15 on Mondays in the Senate Room, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street.

Each seminar will comprise two 25-minute talks followed by shared questions. There will then be drinks and, for those who wish to join us, we will move on to dinner at a nearby restaurant.

Jointly organised by the London Shakespeare Centre and the Institute for English Studies, University of London. The details of all seminars are published by Institute of English Studies, Senate House, please visit their website here.

For more information and to be included on the LSS mailing list please contact Gemma Miller at this email address: shakespeare@kcl.ac.uk

London Shakespeare Seminar: Spring Term

Monday 26 January, 17:00-19:00
Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London

To start off the new year, Margreta de Grazia (Shakespeare Verbatim; Hamlet Without Hamlet) will be speaking on ‘The Origin of Shakespeare’s Life’. This will be followed by a Q&A. There will also be an opportunity to go out for dinner and continue the conversation.



Monday 23 February, 17:00-19:00
Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London

This week, our theme is Shakespeare, Religion, and Usage. To discuss this, we will hear papers from Brian Cummings (Mortal Thoughts: Religion, Secularity and Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture; The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, AND 1662) and Michael Silk (The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature and Thought; Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy). This will be followed by a Q&A. There will also be an opportunity to go out for dinner and continue the conversation.



Monday 16 March, 17:00-19:00
Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London

In March, our topic is stanza forms in Shakespeare’s narrative poems. Delivering papers this week will be Sarah Ross (Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain; Katherine Austen’s Book M) and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry, and Culture, 1640-1680; The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680). This will be followed by a Q&A. There will also be an opportunity to go out for dinner and continue the conversation.