Rachel Willie

Early Modern German Shakespeare in Action: Creation Theatre’s Romio und Julieta

An online roundtable hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies Tuesday 4th May 2021, 5:00pm BST   Useful links: Early Modern German Shakespeare Project Early Modern German Shakespeare Volume I: Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (2020) available from Arden  Kareen Seidler translation services  Creation Theatre Booking link for Creation Theatre’s rehearsed reading of Romio und […]

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A Bit Lit

  When lockdowns kicked in across the world in spring 2020, A Bit Lit was born as a platform for sharing conversations, talks, readings, creative work and now podcasts. In over one hundred films, the A Bit Lit team have brought together scholars and creative practitioners and many more to talk about the early modern

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Book Launch

A virtual celebration of new scholarship in early modern literary studies.                  Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England discount code AAFLYG6 for 30% off. Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare discount code AAFLYG6 for 30% off. Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of

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Applying for an SRS Postdoctoral Fellowship

Michael Bennett, Kaye McLelland and Aislinn Muller share with us their experiences of, and advice for, applying to the SRS Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme.   Michael Bennett       Aislinn Muller   I was awarded the postdoctoral fellowship to research the intersection of Catholic material culture and political engagement in post-Reformation England, ca 1570-1660. Specifically,

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New Website: Gabinetti disegni e stampe italiani (Italian Prints and Drawings Study Rooms)

The website https://www.gabinettidisegniestampe.com aims to gather together all the Gabinetti disegni e stampe italiani (Italian Prints and Drawings Study Rooms) in order to promote and enhance the Italian heritage of prints and drawings. Each Gabinetto disegni e stampe is accompanied on the website by an up-to-date description of the study room, contacts (emails and telephone

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Museum Exhibitions

     In this conversation, the SRS’s John Gallagher talks to Dr Victoria Avery (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) and Dr Melissa Calaresu (University of Cambridge) about collaborations between museums and university academics, and the business of creating and launching a major collaborative exhibition. Today’s guests have an impressive track record of collaboration, having worked together on

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