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This lecture provides social and historical context for early modern theatres. It also discusses theatre architecture as a shaping influence in the creation of drama. 

The Understanding the Theatre Spaces lecture is available to be booked by institutions as a standalone session or in combination with others. It also almost always features as the first session for bespoke courses.

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This lecture will discuss what 'decolonising Shakespeare' means at Shakespeare's Globe. It introduces some key facts and historical figures from the early years of England's imperial and slaving missions, as well as highlighting the diversity of early modern Londoners. 

This Faculty version aims to introduce our Faculty to the Globe's ongoing efforts to make our spaces more accessible and welcoming for the people who work or visit here.

The Shakespeare Today lecture is only available to bespoke courses. However, it is a vital watch as Faculty should carry its antiracist principles into all Higher Education work at the Globe.

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Since the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse opened in 2014, Globe artists have developed specific skills for acting indoors and under candle light. Learn how an awareness of indoor theatricality can expand our understanding of works written for indoor performance, including Julius Caesar, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale and The Duchess of Malfi.

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Shakespeare’s Globe artistic director Michelle Terry played Lady Macbeth in an acclaimed production directed by Rob Hastie in 2018. Here, she discusses this landmark production’s use of space, candle light, and darkness with Professor Farah Karim-Cooper. 

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As part of our accreditation by the British Accreditation Council, we are asking all Globe Faculty members to complete their Prevent Awareness training.

This is a free government training which can be completed on demand and takes approximately 30 minutes. Please note this is not a paid training opportunity.

Once completed, please download the certificate at the end of the course and send a copy to the Higher Education team.

Alternatively, if you feel you would like to revisit the key points, the website offers a refresher course (which takes approximately 20 minutes) to those already certified.

Thank you to all who attended our Anti-Racism Training sessions. 

The recordings of both sessions are now available to watch, and we have included the resources shared for the session also. 

Please be aware the deadline has now passed to be paid to watch these.

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Farah Karim-Cooper's new book, The Great White Bard, explores the language of race and difference in Shakespeare's plays. Karim-Cooper also looks at the ways Shakespeare’s work became integral to Britain’s imperial project, and its sense of cultural superiority

From the Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published August 15, 2023. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. 

This talk focuses on the ways in which the development of casting has pushed the contemporary performance of Shakespeare into a contested space. Drawing on Catherine Silverstone’s interest in the ‘ethics of representation and spectatorship’, I examine the debates surrounding the different current modes of casting and highlight the ways in which identity-anxiety can serve regressively to neutralize race and other characteristics, such as gender and disability. I draw from examples of contemporary productions of Shakespeare and early modern drama to argue for a multi-modal approach to casting, that considers the specificities of text, the trauma of differing communities and the position of Shakespeare in the UK as elite, white property.

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SHAKESPEARE & RACE: RECORDED WEBINARS

Our ongoing series of anti-racist webinars which highlight the importance of race in the consideration of Shakespeare – not only in his time, but just as urgently, in our own.

SHAKESQUEER: A RESOURCE LIST

Dr Will Tosh shares some of his favourite queer resources where people’s experience of sexuality through the ages can be explored, and where learning and discussion can start.

GENDER IDENTITY: A RESOURCE LIST

Staff at the Globe share some of our favourite non-binary and transgender resources, where people’s experiences of gender identity through the ages can be explored, and where learning and discussion can start.

SUCH STUFF: HOW WHITENESS DOMINATES EDUCATION

In this episode of our podcast series on Shakespeare and Race, we explore what a decolonised curriculum means and what that might look like. And of course, we’ll be asking what that means for the way we learn the works of Shakespeare. 

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