Nottingham Shakespeare Society

7th January 2020 Coriolanus and the popular voice: Dr Ben Burton

Review by Julia Pirie

At this week’s meeting, Dr Burton from Nottingham High School offered a reading of Coriolanus through a consideration of the play’s ‘popular voice’. He began with the entranc...

Nottingham Shakespeare Society

November 19th 2019

'The Merry Wives of Windsor'

A Reading by Nottingham High School students

A well-established group like The Nottingham Shakespeare Society develops its own quirks and traditions over the years. To my mind, one of the best is the annual visi...

November 10th 2019

Book Review by Paul K.

Emma Smith This Is Shakespeare Pelican 2019

For an Oxford Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Emma Smith's attitude toward her subject is refreshingly unstuffy - I'd go so far as to say it's downright entertaining. A...

**Tuesday November 5th, 2019

‘King Lear’: the Last Tragedy. Talk by Les Wilkinson

Reviewed by Julia Pirie

Our speaker on Tuesday 5th November, Les Wilkinson, believes that ‘King Lear’ (1606) was Shakespeare’s ‘last tragedy’. After it in the canon come what academics call his problem or ‘last’...

October 22nd 2019

King Lear; a play reading

Probably first performed in 1606, King Lear has a cast of twenty, plus servants, knights, officers, messengers, soldiers and attendants. On average it runs for over three hours plus intermission. On Tuesday, our judiciously cut version ran...