{"id":852,"date":"2015-04-10T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=852"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:39:01","slug":"shakespeare-in-london-launch-event-to-celebrate-the-bards-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2015\/04\/10\/shakespeare-in-london-launch-event-to-celebrate-the-bards-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shakespeare in London\u2019 launch event to celebrate the Bard\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book on Shakespeare&#8217;s London co-authored by\u00a0School of English\u00a0Early Modern Literature specialist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/dustagheer.html\">Dr Sarah Dustagheer <\/a>will be launched at Waterstones, Piccadilly Circus, on 23 April.<\/p>\n<p>Published in February, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/shakespeare-in-london-9781408151808\/\"><em>Shakespeare in London <\/em><\/a>(The Arden Shakespeare) offers a lively and engaging new reading of some of Shakespeare&#8217;s major work, informed by close attention to the language of his drama. The focus of the book is on Shakespeare&#8217;s London, how it influenced his drama and how he represents it on stage. The book moves both chronologically, from beginning to end of Shakespeare&#8217;s dramatic career, and also geographically, traversing London from west to east.<\/p>\n<p>Each chapter focuses on one play and one key location, drawing out the thematic connections between that place and the drama it underwrites. Plays discussed in detail include <em>Hamlet<\/em>, <em>Richard II<\/em>, <em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em>, <em>The Tempest<\/em>, <em>King Lear<\/em> and <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>. Close textual readings accompany the wealth of contextual material, providing a fresh and exciting way into Shakespeare&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>It is widely accepted that 23 April is the most likely date of Shakespeare&#8217;s birth as documents show that he was baptised on 26 April 1564, a ceremony which, in accordance with tradition at that time, would have taken place three days after he was born.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shakespeare in London<\/em> was co-authored by: Sarah Dustagheer, Lecturer in Early Modern Literature in the School of English; Hannah Crawforth, Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, King&#8217;s College London; and Jennifer Young, Teaching Fellow in English Literature (1590\u20131700), University of Leeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book on Shakespeare&#8217;s London co-authored by\u00a0School of English\u00a0Early Modern Literature specialist Dr Sarah Dustagheer will be launched at Waterstones, Piccadilly Circus, on 23 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2015\/04\/10\/shakespeare-in-london-launch-event-to-celebrate-the-bards-birthday\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,143219,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}