The Shakespeare Society, October 4th 2019

Review by Julia Pirie

Venus and Adonis: The Shakespeare smash hit you never heard about

Sarah Olive is passionate about Shakespeare’s poem Venus and Adonis. For some years she has been sharing her passion with first year undergraduates at York Uni...

The Shakespeare Society, September 19th 2019

Review by Julia Pirie

The 2019-2020 session opened with the traditional ‘President’s Talk’. The title this year was ‘A Lass Unparallel’d: Shakespeare’s strong women and the question of gender-neutral casting.’ In David Dunford’s absence, this was r...

September 2018

In August some members gathered for a friendly informal lunch at The Mechanics as has been the custom for the last few years during the long seasonal summer break. Afterwards there was chance for a look at the new season's plans and Di took a photograph of the lively exchange of ide...

July 29th 2017

Well, so much for my good intentions! I really did mean to add to this page at regular intervals during the season but one way and another I just didn't get around to it. I can only apologise and say I will try to do better in future.

The new programme for 2017-2018 is now on our...

November 2nd 2016

At last the website is back!

Thank you for your patience. After three months of technical problems caused firstly by BT (three engineer visits, two local exchange faults and a new telegraph wire later we had our phone line back!) and then by the failure of Windows 10 to work w...