Setting the Scene

Leading scholars provide introductions to the evening play.

26 August A Midsummer Night's Dream Juliet Dusinberre, University of Cambridge
Juliet Dusinberre is editor of As You Like It (Arden 3, 2006), and author of Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (3rd edition 2003), and Virginia Woolf’s Renaissance: Woman Reader or Common Reader? (1997). She is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and was its first M.C. Bradbrook Fellow in English. She has lectured and published in the USA, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Italy and France.

9 September The Merry Wives of Windsor Michael Dobson, Birkbeck, University of London
Michael Dobson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He has previously taught at universities including Oxford, Harvard and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has held visiting fellowships at UCLA and at Peking University. His publications include The Making of the National Poet (1992), The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (with Stanley Wells, 2001), England's Elizabeth (with Nicola Watson, 2002), Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today (2006), and he will shortly be publishing a history of non-professional Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Amateurs (2008). He has reviewed and commented on Shakespearean performance and criticism for the BBC, for Shakespeare Survey and for the London Review of Books.

16 September Timon of Athens Gretchen Minton, Montana State University
23 September A Midsummer Night's Dream Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe

Tuesdays at 6pm
Tickets: £5 (£4 FoSG/concs), £3 students

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