02 April 2021 Dr Robert Stagg interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford The Shakespeare Institute's Robert Stagg was recently interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford about the astonishing cultural range of @LilNasX's new music video 'Montero'.
04 February 2021 King Charles II and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio Recent PHd Student Dr José Pérez Díez will introduce this landmark book which features 34 plays by English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
04 February 2021 World's Stage - a multilingual celebration of Birmingham, Brummies and their Shakespeare The Everything to Everybody project, led by Professor Ewan Fernie of The Shakespeare Institute, have launched "World's Stage" a series of seven new short films.
17 December 2020 MA Shakespeare and Creativity students are participating in the West Midlands Culture Response Unit's 'It Gets Lighter From Here' festival Our MA Shakespeare and Creativity students have produced 9 short films as part of the West Midlands Culture Response Unit's 'It Gets Lighter From Here' festival on Monday 21 December.
16 December 2020 Craiova International Shakespeare Festival Prize Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, has been named as the 2020 winner of Romania's prestigious Craiova International Shakespeare Festival Prize.
15 December 2020 Stars and scholars worldwide line up to congratulate Shakespeare Institute graduands At an online ceremony from the hall of the Shakespeare Institute on 10 December 10, a selection of the Institute's distinguished honorary fellows paid tribute to the extraordinary resilience of our students
23 November 2020 Comparing notes about the state of Shakespearean scholarship and performance in Russia and in the UK before and during the current pandemic An online conference in collaboration with the Russian Shakespeare Centre.
12 November 2020 AHRC-Funded Studentships Available to Support Doctoral Research AHRC-funded studentships are now available for 2021 entry through the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
22 October 2020 Digital teaching in higher education The Royal Shakespeare Company are working with students at the University of Birmingham on an online project, to help them continue their studies through the pandemic.
01 October 2020 Shakespeare in parts with Tiffany Stern Professor Tiffany Stern talk about her groundbreaking work on 'Shakespeare in Parts' on the That Shakespeare Life podcast.
25 June 2020 Beyonce and Shakespeare - you can't go wrong Charlie Bannocks (MA Shakespeare and Creativity) shares her love of A Midsummer Night's Dream - from her own experience of directing productions in Russia to puppets.
19 June 2020 Bringing Shakespeare to life online This year the Shakespeare Institute has moved its annual Play Reading Marathon online. Dr Martin Wiggins discusses the benefits of going global.
Everything to Everybody A collaboration with Birmingham City Council will revive the fortunes of the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library