RESEARCH EVENTS

Lend your voice to a variety of enlightening and insightful events as our world-leading Research programme builds on more than 25 years of unparalleled performance and exploration in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Delve deeper into Shakespeare’s world and works with our Research in Action series and Study Days events, explore lesser-known texts through Read Not Dead, and join vital conversations with our Anti-Racist Shakespeare webinars. Our next Shakespeare and Race Festival will return in 2026.

STUDY DAYS

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Shakespeare's Knotty Comedies: Study Day

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Join academics and artists for an insightful, day-long exploration of some of Shakespeare's thorniest comedies. Including Q&A with members of our All’s Well That Ends Well Company.
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Shakespeare's Fairy Tale Worlds: Study Day

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An insightful, day-long exploration with academics and artists of Shakespeare's world of magic, prophecy, storms and shipwrecks. Including Q&A with members of our Cymbeline Company.
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ANTI-RACIST SHAKESPEARE

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Anti-Racist Shakespeare is a series of free webinars that brings together scholars and artists of colour from a wide variety of backgrounds to examine Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of race and social justice.

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The Shakespeare and Race Festival was founded in 2018 to highlight conversations about race in Shakespeare’s plays and in his era through workshops, conversations, symposia and performances. Our next festival will return in 2026.

BLOGS

Othello 2024
Plays, Poems & New Writing 

Othello and the Ottomans

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Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's Globe 2023 (22)
Plays, Poems & New Writing 

Racialised ill-will and anti-blackness in Titus Andronicus

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Plays, Poems & New Writing 

Race and identity in Henry V

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Medieval & Early Modern History 

England and the Jews, before Shakespeare

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Explore Early Modern performance culture in our Research in Action series

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Shakespeare's Globe Library & Archive Collections
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Welcome to our hidden world, the Shakespeare's Globe library

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PAST EVENTS

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FURTHER STUDIES

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HIGHER EDUCATION

Our higher education offerings include single-day or full-semester learning, our MA in Shakespeare Studies, and studio courses specifically designed for professional actors and directors, ensuring something for everyone.

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RESEARCH & COLLECTIONS

Our dedicated teams in research, library, and archives provide a wealth of knowledge and resources to support both new and established scholars. Our collection features a performance archive, research papers, and rare books.

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