In order to create an archive of the Shakespeare 400 activities that took place across all the partner organisations in 2016, a team of students at King's College London, from various disciplines and levels of study, reviewed as many of the events as possible.
Below are all of the reviews. Use the search box to find reviews
of a particular event.
Review by Valeria Marcon, BA English. Professor Marjorie Garber boasts a list of credentials capable of bringing a grown person to tears. Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, Chair of the Committee on Dramatic Arts, and perhaps one of the most intimidating individuals in the academic sphere Read more...
Review by Rowena Hawkins, MA Shakespeare Studies. A lecture by Jonathan Hope, Professor of Linguistics at Strathclyde University. Jonathan Hope began his lecture on Digital Shakespeare with a photo of a book chained to a reading desk. It was taken in a medieval library, where there were so few books that each book had its own stand... Read more...
Review by Cara Rodrigues, MSc Neuroscience. This lecture given by Professor McMullan was a delightfully insightful evening offering a detailed and riveting account of the impact of Shakespeare’s legacy on cultural events in time. Read more...
Review by Amy Lee, BMus Music. Royal Librarian Oliver Urquhart Irvine delved into a discussion concerning Shakespeare and the monarchy in a pre-concert presentation at the Royal Festival Hall on 12 February. Read more...
Review by Jamie Weisz, MA Early Modern History. This weekend marks the focal point of King’s College London’s official Shakespeare commemoration: the What You Will festival. The expansive programme features talks, book readings, performances; all showing just how much his work has been inspirational for generations. Read more...
Review by Poppy Mostyn-Owen, BA English. The Arden Shakespeare’s new collection On Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration was launched in King’s College London’s Great Hall, which hosted ten of the most celebrated poets of the modern day. Read more...
Review by Anna Crisp, MA Cultural and Creative Industries. As the culmination of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s ‘New Horizons Education and Communication’s 2015/16 Spring project, first year GCSE students from South London schools performed innovative responses to Sibelius’ The Tempest. Read more...
Review by Hélène Couste, LLM (Master of Laws). The Shakespeare-inspired Tempest (1925-1926) is one of the last pieces Jean Sibelius composed before entering "The Silence of Järvenpää", the name given to the remaining 32 years of his life during which he wrote little else. Read more...
Review by Rowena Hawkins, MA Shakespeare Studies. Shylock is My Name isn’t the book that Booker Prize winning novelist Howard Jacobson wanted to contribute to the Hogarth Shakespeare. Read more...
Review by Jenna Byers, PhD candidate in History. This exhibition is interesting, in that it is attempting to do something different to most previous Shakespeare exhibitions that I have seen. It is not about Shakespeare’s plays and, in fact, his output as a playwright is seen as almost superfluous to the purpose of this exhibition. Read more...
