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MIT Global Shakespeares and the Taiwan Shakespeare Database have begun a formal collaboration which the two projects will share videos, coordinate interface and technical design. The Taiwan Shakespeare Database is directed by Beatrice Lei in collaboration with the Research Center for Digital Humanities, NTU. We hope that this alliance will be a model for how digital Shakespeare collections can share materials and enhance their use in research and education throughout the world. Read More

Dr. Cristiane Busato Smith, Global Shakespeares regional editor for Brazil, will chair a session on Friday, February 07, 2014 on Shakespeare and the Catastrophic at the 20th Annual ACMRS Conference, Arizona State University. She will also be presenting a paper entitled “Macbeth: Visions of Apocalypse Now and Then” on Saturday, February 08, 2014. Read More

Dr Joshua Edelman and Dr Aneta Mancewicz, research fellows at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, conducted a workshop entitled ‘Watching the Watching of Shakespeare’. Read More

Video highlights from the Korean Tempest film screening and colloquium which took place in Washington, D.C. November 4-5, 2011. Read More

The foremost Korean director and playwright Oh Tae-suk visits DC (his Tempest won the Herald Angel award at the 2011 Edinburgh Int’l Festival). Read More

“Egyptian Theatre Between Local Contexts and Global Audiences: Shakespeare as a Case Study,” the five-hour workshop will involve about 20 directing and drama criticism students and recent graduates from Cairo-area theatre departments. Read More

The Global Shakespeares editors, collaborators and advisory board members have been a major presence at the World Shakespeare Congress meeting in Prague this week, chairing 10 events, offering 11 seminar papers and 11 talks at panels and workshops Read More

MIT faculty and collaborators from across the world create new classes that integrate theatrical and literary approaches to Global Shakespeare using the materials of the archive as well as on-line multimedia essay tools and virtual and in-person sharing of classes. Read More

The editors of Global Shakespeares and collaborators in MIT’s Global Shakespeare Curricular Initiative and HamletWorks will be well represented at the World Shakespeare Conference in Prague Conference, July 16-22, 2011. Read More

Three Global Shakespeares editors spoke at the biennial meeting of the International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon in August 2010 Read More