Shakespeare Study Day on 10.11.2023 at the Universität Stuttgart
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read moreLecture Tiffany Stern “Error and Absurdity in Shakespeare’s First Folio” on 18.10.2023 in Bonn
“Error and Absurdity in Shakespeare’s First Folio” Shakespeare’s First Folio is so important that it is often thought to be good: John PayneCollier called it a “credit to the age, even as a specimen of typography”. But the First Folio has some notable blunders, from its poorly spaced preliminary matter onwards. My lecture will investigate…
read moreShakespeare Seminar Bochum 2024
The Shakespeare Seminar will take place during the Shakespeare Days 2024 in Bochum, from 19 to 21 April. Call for Papers.
read moreMembership of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Werner Heisenberg Medal for Prof. Claudia Olk
The President of the German Shakespeare Society, Prof. Claudia Olk, was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In addition, Prof. Olk was awarded the Werner Heisenberg Medal by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on March 23. The award was made “in recognition of her special services in the promotion of…
read moreYearly Conference „Shakespeare’s Libraries“ 21.-23.04.2023 in Weimar
To the registration form The first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays appeared in 1623 under the title Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Prior to this, only a few of Shakespeare’s plays had ever been published. Without the ‘First Folio’, much of Shakespeare’s work, including plays such as Macbeth and The Tempest, would…
read moreShakespeare-Academy 20./21.4.2023, Registration by 12.2.
This year’s Shakespeare Academy (more information in the flyer) will take place in the run-up to the conference on April 20 and 21. Using the example of Shakespeare’s late play The Tempest, the student workshop participants will examine how the stage text deals with its own mediality and with the role of magical books, which…
read moreUnmasking Shakespeare: The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association”
will be held online, 10-12 November 2022 see details in the Asian Shakespeare Newsletter
read moreThe International Translation And Circulation Of Shakespeare Criticism
Conference in Leuven, 26-27 June 2023 Further information can be found here.
read more“Wieland meets Shakespeare” – Lecture Series in Weimar on 16.6., 30.6. and 14.7.
The lectures were recorded and can be accessed via the YouTube-channel of the German Shakespeare Society: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1Afp2gwz4Jo4FmLg24LAg Programme 16.6.22 Christa Schuenke: Wieland’s Shakespeare – a case of eloquent silence Why did Wieland omit so much from his Shakespeare? A few thoughts on the presence of the translator in the absent. Christa Schuenke lives in Berlin…
read moreSonette / Sonnets [parallel text edition] (Shakespeare Gesamtausgabe, Volume 38)
William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets are without doubt among the most important creations in world literature. There are more than 300 translations into German to date – only the Bible has more. Frank Günther literally devoted himself to the translation of this cycle of poems right up to the last hours of his life and translated…
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