The National Student Course on Shakespeare in Performance Hosted by the English Association, the Shakespeare Centre and the Shakespeare Institute. The English Association, the Shakespeare Institute and the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford upon Avon have once again joined forces to host a four-day residential course for undergraduate and graduate students. The course will deal with the plays in the current repertoire of the Royal Shakespeare Company - most probably Hamlet, King John and a new play by Peter Whelan in Stratford plus a trip to see Richard III at the Young Vic in London and provide programmes of play visits, lectures by members of the academic staff of the Shakespeare Institute and the Shakespeare Centre on plays to be seen and on more general topics, discussion classes on the productions, information on earlier productions of plays being seen, and the opportunity to discuss plays and roles with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company involved in the productions. There will be a limited number of bursaries made available.
Early registration is advised.
Text and Theatre' courses. The 'Shakespeare for Students' course was ably administered by the English Association, delivered by The Birthplace Trust and the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, with support and sponsorship from Blackwell Publishers, Kenneth Branagh, Brunel University, Manchester University Press, Sir Ian McKellen and The University of the West of England. A motley group, mostly English Lit. Alexander and Smallwood was so totally appropriate, that we never did get around to learning each others names. We just immediately plunged into the subject and spent the next four days blissfully wallowing in The Bard.