The second public lecture about Shakespeare in a series named in honour of former Shakespeare Institute director Professor Stanley Wells will take place in London on the evening of 5 March 2013. This annual event, which is co-organized by the Shakespeare Institute, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Notre Dame University, was inaugurated in 2012 with a lecture by Professor Wells himself.<\/p>\n
The high calibre of speakers will be kept up this year with a lecture by Sir Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of the National Theatre, whose major productions of Shakespeare have included As You Like It<\/em> (at the Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Tempest<\/em> and King Lear<\/em> (both with John Wood, RSC), Measure for Measure<\/em> (with Josette Simon, RSC), Twelfth Night<\/em> (Lincoln Center, New York), and, at the National, The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em> (with Alex Jennings), Henry V<\/em> (with Adrian Lester), Henry IV parts 1 and 2<\/em> (with Michael Gambon), Much Ado About Nothing<\/em> and Timon of Athens<\/strong> (both with Simon Russell Beale).<\/p>\n The event will take place at Notre Dame\u2019s London premises, 1 Suffolk Street, just off Trafalgar Square. Further details on how to book a place will be made available here in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second public lecture about Shakespeare in a series named in honour of former Shakespeare Institute director Professor Stanley Wells will take place in London on the evening of 5 March 2013. This annual event, which is co-organized by the … Continue reading