Past News

Dr Elizabeth Hardy is a Shakespeare Scholar, a RADA trained actress and a local lass, who was educated at Stratford Girl's Grammar School and earned her PhD from the Shakespeare Institute. She has taught Shakespeare at the two grammar schools in Stratford and has written and directed two Shakespeare inspired shows at what is now The Rother Street Arts House. On Tuesday March 10th at 7.30pm in the Methodist Hall (opposite Holy Trinity Church) she will share her thoughts about

Rebecca Halliwell receives the Shakespeare Club Bursary to support her PhD research on Shakespearean comedy and wellbeing.

Dr Tracy Borman explores the dramatic transfer of power in 1603 and how Elizabeth I’s death shaped Shakespeare’s plays, drawing on her new book The Stolen Crown.

Rob Eastaway revealed Shakespeare’s surprising fascination with numbers, from mental arithmetic to music and science, showing how maths, myth and magic coexisted in his lifetime in an engaging and accessible talk.

Rev Dr Paul Edmondson opened the new season with a warmly received address reflecting on his lifelong relationship with Shakespeare, Stratford, and the global connections shaped by the Bard’s work.

The film of Hamnet The film of Maggie O’Farrell’s book Hamnet has been hugely successful, winning Best Motion Picture, and Best Actress in a Motion Picture for Jessie Buckley in the Golden Globe Awards. The book dramatises the last days of the 11-year old Hamnet Shakespeare and the  relationship of his parents, William and Anne Shakespeare (her alternative name of Agnes is used in the film). ​ In Stratford-upon-Avon some have questioned whether the film should have been made