In 2021-22 we will host a special season of events devoted to Shakespeare’s Poems. These will  take place mainly online, but we hope to include an in-person, more sociable, gathering in  early December. Please contact Hannah Crawforth ([email protected]) and  Elizabeth Scott-Baumann ([email protected]), co-convenors of the series,  with any queries.

The London Shakespeare Seminar, which has been active for over a decade, seeks to  showcase work in progress in the study of Shakespeare, early modern literature, and theatre  offering an environment which is open, welcoming, critically rigorous and expressive of the  contemporary state of play in our field. We welcome everyone engaged with the field from  student to professor –anyone with an interest in the critical study of Shakespeare and early  modern literature from across the UK and beyond. Our speakers are a blend of established  and junior researchers from UK and non-UK institutions.  

Organising Committee 

Hannah Crawforth, John Lavagnino, Sarah Lewis, Gordon McMullan, Sonia Massai, Lucy  Munro, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Daniel Smith and Ann Thompson (King’s College  London), Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare’s Globe/King’s College London), Clare  McManus (University of Roehampton), Eric Langley (UCL), Gillian Woods (Birkbeck,  University of London), Jennifer Young (University of Greenwich), Iman Sheeha (Brunel,  University of London), Abi Shinn (Goldsmiths, University of London.

All seminars begin at 17:15 and end at 19:00 (London time). Please register in advance on Eventbrite to receive Zoom link.

Schedule of events:

11th October 2021 

• Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr College): ‘Man in Hew: Shakespeare’s Trans Philology’

• Robert Stagg (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford): ‘Queer Prosody: Rhyme's  Voices in The Taming of the Shrew’ 

15th November 2021 

• Roundtable: Editing Shakespeare’s Poems. Featuring: Colin Burrow (All  Souls’ College, University of Oxford), Jane Kingsley-Smith (University of  Roehampton), Lynne Magnusson (University of Toronto), Cathy Shrank  (University of Sheffield), Emma Smith (Hertford College, University of Oxford) 

6th December 2021 – In-person session (TBC): Sonnets at Random 

• A collaborative, collective close-reading of some of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, convened  by Daniel Starza Smith, Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann. Festive  drinks and dinner to follow (TBC) 

24th January 2022 

• Amrita Dhar (Ohio State University): ‘Darkly Bright and Bright in Dark Directed:  Sleep, Dreams, Love and Waking in Two Sonnets by Shakespeare and Milton’

• Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University): ‘Re-reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The  Lyric Voice and an Ethical Imagination’ 

28th February 2022 

• Tamara Mahadin (Ohio State University): ‘Shakespeare’s Physiognomies in the  Sonnets’ 

• Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe): Title TBC 

14th March 2022 

• Colleen Rosenfeld (Pomona College): ‘The Suppositions of Form in Picasso’s Las  Meninas (After Velázquez) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ 

• Suparna Roychoudhury (Mount Holyoke College): Title TBC 

16th May 2022 

• Urvashi Chakravarty (University of Toronto): Title TBC 

• Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University): ‘Shakespearean Multiplicities: Lyric  Thinking and the Challenge of Relation’).