Date / Time
- May 23, 2020
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Enjoy Shakespeare’s great works in a fun, communal setting to gain a deeper understanding of their poetry and wordplay.
Upcoming Events
Virtual Program | Free Shakespeare Read-Aloud Group: As You Like It
Date / Time
- April 25, 2020
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Enjoy Shakespeare’s great works in a fun, communal setting to gain a deeper understanding of their poetry and wordplay.
CANCELLED | Behind the Bookcase | Shaping Shakespeare
Date / Time
- April 23, 2020
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
When is Shakespeare not Shakespeare? And what is a folio, anyway? After seeing some of Shakespeare’s earliest printings and books that inspired his plots, we’ll explore how his work has fared at the hands of actors, editors, and forgers.
Virtual Program | Free Shakespeare Read-Aloud Group: Coriolanus
Date / Time
- May 9, 2020
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Enjoy Shakespeare’s great works in a fun, communal setting to gain a deeper understanding of their poetry and wordplay.
CANCELLED | Free Shakespeare Read-Aloud Group: The Taming of the Shrew
Date / Time
- April 4, 2020
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Enjoy Shakespeare’s great works in a fun, communal setting to gain a deeper understanding of their poetry and wordplay.
FREE Shakespeare Read-Aloud Group: Othello
Date / Time
- March 7, 2020
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Enjoy Shakespeare’s great works in a fun, communal setting to gain a deeper understanding of their poetry and wordplay.
FREE Shakespeare Read-Aloud Group: The Merchant of Venice
Date / Time
- February 1, 2020
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Enjoy Shakespeare’s great works in a fun, communal setting to gain a deeper understanding of their poetry and wordplay.
Hands-On Tour | Shaping Shakespeare
Date / Time
- January 30, 2020
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
When is Shakespeare not Shakespeare? And what is a folio, anyway? After seeing some of Shakespeare’s earliest printings and books that inspired his plots, we’ll explore how his work has fared at the hands of actors, editors, and forgers.
Hands-on Tour: Shakespeare In Love
Date / Time
- October 11, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lovers abound in the works of Shakespeare. His characters struggle and play and persist, and sometimes die, in pursuit of love. In this brand new Hands-On Tour, we’ll explore his myriad visions of love in early editions of his poems and plays from our collection. Come love with Will.
In Conversation with Jim Casey | Shakespeare and Authorship
Date / Time
- December 10, 2019
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Although most scholars and historians agree that William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays and poems we associate with “Shakespeare,” there are still those who believe these works were written by someone else. It may be impossible to say anything for certain about the authorship of plays written more than 400 years ago, but we do know quite a lot about the history of playwriting and the early modern theater. Please join Jim Casey, Associate Professor of English at Arcadia University, for a discussion of the authorship debate, the collaborative process of Renaissance playwriting, and the related staging practices of the early modern theater.