Blogging Shakespeare at Nottingham
April 4, 2016
By Peter Kirwan April 1st 2016 marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of The Bardathon, my personal review blog of Shakespeare. I set the blog up in 2006 to chronicle my (successful) attempt to attend all fifty-four productions in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2006-07 ‘Complete Works Festival’. During that year I developed …
A Nottingham Night’s Dream
February 23, 2016
Peter Kirwan previews an exciting collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Nottingham’s very own Lovelace Theatre. The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2016 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an unusual and very special event. The production (which had its press night in Stratford this month) features a star case of professional actors as the …
Reading Hamlet in a Labour Camp
February 12, 2016
By Alessia Molteni Who doesn’t know Shakespeare in Europe? For many people he is only a vague memory from high school, for others a great artist and for a fanatic bunch of people, the brightest star in the firmament. Could someone with a non-european cultural background, from a different social and political environment, …
Shakespeare Documented
January 29, 2016
Dr Peter Kirwan of the School of English introduces his work on the largest free online Shakespeare exhibition ever curated. In January, the Folger Shakespeare library released Shakespeare Documented, the largest collection of Shakespeare documents ever assembled. Working with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the British Library, the National Archives and the Bodleian Libraries, this exhibition …
Three FREE events at D.H. Lawrence Heritage for this year’s Festival of Humanities
October 20, 2014
By Carolyn Melbourne, D.H. Lawrence Heritage, Broxtowe Borough Council Writers go in and out of fashion but D.H. Lawrence remains relevant. Described as ‘The prophet of the Midlands’, there is a visionary aspect to his writing; his attitudes to industry, capitalism, nature and of course sex were out of kilter for his own time but now …
D. H. Lawrence in Nottingham
October 2, 2014
By Dr Andrew Harrison, School of English A banner hanging on some buildings adjacent to Nottingham Train Station contains images of three prominent Nottingham authors beneath the headline: ‘Our Rebel Writers’. The writers in question are, of course, Lord Byron, D. H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe. All three men have tangible links to venues in …
Lawrence and Mexico
October 1, 2014
By Annalise Grice, School of English Many people are surprised to learn that D. H. Lawrence travelled all over the world during the course of his short life. New Mexico was particularly significant to Lawrence: in a 1928 essay he commemorated his time there as ‘the greatest experience from the outside world that I have …
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