Shakespearean scholarship at King's today
Details of King's College London’s MA in Shakespeare Studies
Promotional material for Shakespeare400King’s College London has a long and rich history of teaching and research in the field of Shakespearean studies and was indeed one of the first British universities to offer courses in English literature. For the earliest King’s students, matriculating in the 1830s, classes in English literature formed a compulsory component of the curriculum.
Today that tradition is amply reflected in the vibrant academic life of the Department of English, illustrated by the books listed below on Shakespearean themes, which featured in the 2016 exhibition and which were written or edited by current members of its staff.
- Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (editors). On Shakespeare’s sonnets: a poets’ celebration. London: Bloomsbury, 2016
- Margaret Jane Kidnie and Sonia Massai (editors). Shakespeare and textual studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015
- William Shakespeare. 1 Henry IV. Edited by Gordon McMullan. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2003
- William Shakespeare. The Norton Shakespeare. Edited by Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Suzanne Gossett, Jean E Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus and Gordon McMullan. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2016
- Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan (editors). In Arden: editing Shakespeare. Essays in honour of Richard Proudfoot. London: Thomson Learning, 2003
In 2016 King’s led Shakespeare400, a year-long season of cultural and artistic events involving over 20 partner organisations. A selection of promotional material for Shakespeare400 is reproduced in this section: to learn more, please visit the website at shakespeare400.org
In this exhibition
- ‘To try their fortune there': from the town to the city
- 'A plot against my life, my crown': religion and politics
- 'Though thou write with a goose-pen': the tools of writing
- 'All this I speak in print': the London book trade
- 'A fine volley of words': language in Shakespeare's time
- 'What revels are at hand?': Shakespeare's literary contemporaries
- 'Dressing old words new': Shakespeare's literary sources
- 'Give physick to the sick, ease to the pained': medicine in Shakespeare's time
- 'Not of an age, but for all time': Shakespeare and King's College London
- Israel Gollancz's Book of homage
- Droeshout's portrait of Shakespeare
- Gollancz's edition of the Sonnets
- Israel Gollancz and the Shakespeare Association
- Shakespearean scholarship at King's today
- Select bibliography