The oldest Shakespeare society in existence reached 200 in April 2024

Celebrations were held during the spring and the Club’s 2024-5 season of lectures began in October.

The 2024-5 season began with two inspiring addresses by Sir Greg Doran, former Artistic Director of the RSC, and by the current Joint Artistic Director Tamara Harvey.

Speakers for the rest of the season are as follows:

10 December 2024: Poet Dr Neal Hall. The Trembling Tiber: a black poet’s musing on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

14 January 2025: Dr Callan Davies Southampton University

11 February 2025: Dr Toria Johnson Birmingham University

11 March 2025: Nikki Pearson (Club member and Postgraduate Researcher) on Stratford’s suffragette movement and its connections to Shakespeare.

8 April 2025: To be announced

13 May 2025: Dr Gary Watt, University of Warwick. Shakespeare and the Law

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