Colloquium on Richard II and Casting Diversity, at the Rose Theatre

Kingston Shakespeare Seminar with Global Shakespeare and Anərkē Shakespeare
March 24/25th 2018


Saturday March 24th  09.30 – 18.00

‘Political Theology and Shakespeare’s Richard II’

Richard Ashby (Royal Holloway University London): ‘Pierced to the Soul: The Sovereign Gaze in Richard II’

Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg University): ‘The Breath of Kings: Richard II in the Marlowe Aftermath’

Antonio Cerella (Kingston University): ‘The Sovereign Sacrifice: A Genealogy of Political Representation’

Guillaume Foulquie (University of Worcester): ‘Conceptions and Ideologies of Blood in Richard II’

Ronan Hatfull (Shakespeare Institute): ‘Hollow Crowns and Thrones: The Postmodern Celebrity Richard’

Eric Heinze (Queen Mary University London): ‘The Performance of Law’s Legitimacy in Richard II’

Edward Paleit (City University London): ‘Marlowe Never Dies: Deposing Sovereignty in Richard II’

Elena Pellone (Shakespeare Institute) and David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University London):

‘Breath of Kings: Political and Theatrical Power in Richard II’

Ildiko Solti (Kingston University): ‘Power Play: The Audience as Pawn in Richard II’

David Souden (British Museum) and Richard Foster (Independent Scholar): ‘Pamela Tudor-Craig and Richard II: A Memoir’



Sunday March 25th 10.30–1.00

‘‘‘Let me Play the Lion Too’’: Casting Diversity in Shakespeare’

Actors from Anərkē Shakespeare: ‘Gender and race-blind casting, and working without a director’

Anthony Howard: ‘The British Black and Asian Shakespeare Project’

Martin Wiggins: ‘Shakespeare’s Original Practice Without a Director’


‘Richard II’ performed by Anərkē Shakespeare in the Rose Studio on March 24 @ 2pm & 7pm; March 25 @ 2pm


Register for all or part of this free seminar and performance
at the Rose Theatre Kingston
24-26 High Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, KT1 1HL
Box Office (10.00 – 18.00) 020 8174 0090 / rosetheatrekingston.org

Kingston Shakespeare Seminar: Infinite Jest: Shakespearean Afterlives

Rose Theatre Kingston, Saturday March 10 2018: 09.30 – 18.00

Richard Burt (University of Florida): ‘Posthumous Shakespeare: The Mourning After’

Paul Franssen (Utrecht University): ‘The King’s Man’

Susanne Greenhalgh (Roehampton University): ‘Revivifying Shakespeare in the Era of Digital Broadcasting’

Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University): ‘DI Hamlet and DS Macbeth: Quoting Shakespeare in Murder Mysteries’

Patricia Novillo-Corvalan (University of Kent): ‘Borges’s Shakespeare’

Richard O’Brien (University of Birmingham): ‘Stress Positions: Poetics and Politics in Contemporary Verse Drama’


Register for this free event at the Rose Theatre Kingston
24-26 High Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, KT1 1HL
Box Office (10.00 – 18.00) 020 8174 0090 / rosetheatrekingston.org

Kingston Shakespeare Seminar: Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory

Our first KiSS session on Thursday October 6 features Dr Neema Parvini discussing his book Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory, published by Bloomsbury in Arden Shakespeare’s Shakespeare and Theory series, coming out in January 2017. In our new format, the session will be an informal roundtable discussion with the author, chaired by Richard Wilson. We will convene at 6.30 pm at the Gallery of the Rose Theatre, Kingston. These sessions are free and open to everyone. See also the event page!

About Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory (from the publisher’s website):

Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism. And yet, it remains notoriously difficult to pin down, define and explain, let alone analyze. Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of new historicism as a development in Shakespeare studies while asking fundamental questions about its status as literary theory and its continued usefulness as a method of approaching Shakespeare’s plays.

Dr Neema Parvini is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey. He is the author of three books alongside the aforementioned Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory: Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (Bloomsbury, 2012), and Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow Through Character (Palgrave, 2015). Moreover, check out his fantastic podcast series on Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory. 

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Shakespeare and Waste: Inaugural Conference for Kingston Shakespeare Seminar in Theory

Shakespeare and Waste:
Inaugural Conference for Kingston Shakespeare Seminar in Theory (KiSSiT)
The Rose Theatre, Kingston, 23 May, 2015

11.00-11.15. Welcome (Rose Theatre, the Gallery)

11.15-13.00. Panel 1 (Gallery)
Christian Smith (University of Warwick), Venting the musty superfluity: Necrophilious wasting in Coriolanus

David Weinberg (Kingston University), Economic concerns relating to Shakespeare

Sam Hall (Royal Holloway), The Finite Jest of a ‘life in excrements’: Abjection and Identity in Hamlet

Stefanie Bauerochse (independent researcher), Waste is becoming – wrath is not
Chair: Paul Hamilton (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)

13.00-14.00. Lunch Break (individual arrangements)

14.00-15.00. Plenary 1 (Gallery)
Scott Wilson (Kingston University), ‘Vile Jellies’: Bataille, Shakespeare and the Exhumanities
Chair: Johann Gregory (University of East Anglia)

15.00-16.30. Panel 2 (Gallery)

Ildiko Solti (independent researcher), Waste of space?: theatre architecture and the (de)construction of meaning in Measure for Measure
Katrina Marchant (University of Sussex), ‘To thinke these trifles some-thing’: Theatrical ‘Trash’ and the Defence of the Value of Playing
Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick), ‘Ruined Piece of Nature’ - King Lear’s Legacy within American Landscapes of Waste
Chair: Anne Sophie Refskou (Kingston University)

16.30-17.00. Tea (Upper Circle Bar)

17.00-18.00. Plenary 2 (Gallery)
Peter Smith (Nottingham Trent), 'Rude Wind': King Lear - Canonicity versus Physicality
Chair: Timo Uotinen (Royal Holloway)

18.00-18.45. Roundtable discussion (Gallery)
Andrew Jarvis, Peter Smith, Stephen Unwin, Scott Wilson
Chair: Richard Wilson (Kingston University)

19.30. Northern Broadsides King Lear directed by Jonathan Miller in the Rose Auditorium


KiSSiT is part of The Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS), which brings leading international Shakespeare scholars to the Rose, developed by Sir Peter Hall to be a ‘teaching theatre’. Free and open seminars are held twice a month each semester in the Gallery at the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames.

For upcoming events and conferences follow KiSS on kingstonshakespeareseminar.wordpress.com