Shakespeare Institute

The University of Birmingham's (@unibirmingham) dedicated Shakespeare research centre in Stratford-upon-Avon

The best place in the world to study Shakespeare.

[Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute]

@drkq @StScholastica A pleasure to have you here!

[Kevin Quarmby @drkq]

Raising a hat to the International Shakespeare Conference 2026 in Stratford upon Avon. Thanks to @StScholastica for their support of humanities research and teaching. Also, The @ShakesInstitute and University of Birmingham for hosting.

[The Arden Shakespeare @Ardenpublisher]

Fourth Series General Editor Tiffany Stern and Fourth Series Fellow Varsha Panjwani @EarlyModernDoc repping the series in their on-brand outfits at the ISC conference @ShakesInstitute last week!

https://t.co/BjxoRgfOU7

[Dr Chris Laoutaris @DrCLaoutaris]

It was a joy to attend the Shakespeare Institute's 75th anniversary celebrations @ShakespeareBT's New Place garden yesterday! Wonderful to see so many friends, colleagues and alumni there. The cake cutting was suitably theatrical!! Happy 75th Birthday @ShakesInstitute!!! 🎂 🍾 🥂

[Robert Stagg @robert_stagg]

It has been a joy to return to Stratford-upon-Avon, where I spent four happy years as a @LeverhulmeTrust research fellow @ShakesInstitute, for #ISC2026 and the Institute’s 75th birthday party.

Now to Verona for #WSC2026!

[Ewan Fernie @EFernie]

Happy 75th Birthday, @ShakesInstitute! Wonderful occasion celebrating the old place in the garden of Shakespeare’s New Place, thanks to @ShakespeareBT.

Speakers included Institute Director, Prof Michael Dobson, pictured, & @artsatbham Head of Research, Prof Fiona de Londras.🥂

[The Arden Shakespeare @Ardenpublisher]

Fourth Series volume editors Tom Bishop and Andrew Hartley with their editions of As You Like It (a very early preview copy ahead of October's publication date!) and Julius Caesar (out now) at the ISC conference @ShakesInstitute

https://t.co/mgQekcSicm

[Robert Stagg @robert_stagg]

A lovely first day of #ISC2026: opening papers about pleasure, delight, rhyme, repetition, decoloniality, and adaptation; a launch for the @Ardenpublisher Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series; and a party in the @ShakesInstitute gardens.

[Dr Chris Laoutaris @DrCLaoutaris]

Was Shakespeare a secret political radical? Read @PiersMucklejohn's fabulous @HistoryExtra article on how my and Dr Yasmin Arshad's research on an enigmatic woman in a Renaissance portrait revealed the Bard's hidden political activism!! @ShakesInstitute https://t.co/AukI0SDYcn

[Ewan Fernie @EFernie]

In the face of book banning & aggressive censorship, it's poignant to recall that, in the 19thC, public libraries were called FREE libraries.

Such libraries, as much as any institution, made me & I look forward to this screening & discussion with distinguished colleagues.

[Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute]

Our lovely Professor Tiffany Stern is on the Island of Procida in Italy today, giving a keynote lecture, 'From Script to Stage in Shakespeare's London'!

#procida #Shakespeare #lecture #conference #keynote

[Ewan Fernie @EFernie]

A privilege & a pleasure to appear with Prof Emma Smith & the brilliant producers of @bbcarts Shxpr: Rise of a Genius (on iplayer) @ChalkeFestival.
Squaring Shakespeare’s mortal life with his deathless plays remains a fascinating challenge - perilous & imperative.

[Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute]

Our Dr Jessica Chiba is at @GarrickTo331451 today, speaking as part of a panel in the 'Shakespeare and Interwar Philosophy (1918-1938)' Symposium, run by the Shakespeare in Philosophy consortium (of which she is a part) and generously funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

[Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute]

Dr Erin Sullivan is in Salamanca this week giving a keynote on ‘Shakespeare’s Video Game Worlds’ at the II CIRCE international congress on Shakespeare on Screen🎞️

#Shakespeare #shakespeareonscreen #videogames #circe

[ShakesInstituteLib @ShakesInstLib]

To mark the #SummerSolstice here’s a magical image from the production of #AMidsummerNightsDream at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 1988 taken from our archive. @ShakesInstitute

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

The @ShakesInstitute's Professor Ewan Fernie will be appearing at Chalke History Festival on Friday 26 June, 17:30 - 18:30, for 'Truth or Dare? Shakespeare’s Story on Screen': an exploration of retellings of Shakespeare's life on TV .

Learn more: https://t.co/RWmecYoC8R

[Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute]

📣 Calling all alumni!
Join us and 100+ worldwide Shakespeareans for the Shakespeare Institute's 75th Birthday🥳
📅Thursday 16 July 2026
🕟16:30-18:00
📍New Place Garden, 22 Chapel St, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EPP
Please message for a link to register by Tuesday 30th June.

[ShakesInstituteLib @ShakesInstLib]

Wishing @stanley_wells a very Happy Birthday from everyone at the library. Here’s an article about Stanley being knighted in 2016 from our newscuttings archive. @ShakesInstitute

[ShakesInstituteLib @ShakesInstLib]

To coincide with Sir Kenneth Branagh’s return to the RSC this summer, we have made him the star of our new exhibition in the Library, it also features The Tempest Past and Present. Thanks to Elizabeth Freestone for the photos and script. @ShakesInstitute @TheRSC

[Shakespeare Institute @ShakesInstitute]

How proud we are that so many Shakespeare Institute academics have been part of the history of these editions!

Run, don't walk, to the bookshop🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

[The Arden Shakespeare @Ardenpublisher]

127 years after the very first Arden Shakespeare play published in 1899, a new generation of editions begins today.

The first 2 plays - Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar - are out now 🎉

Discover the Fourth Series: https://t.co/56zUdlZ4Hu