B.01 
Book launch: Walking Shadow by Gregory Doran (Juliet’s Tomb)
21 July

B.02 
Shakespeare Reimagined: An Installation Journey through Power, Magic, and the Human Voice
21 July

Description: This presentation introduces a large-scale site-specific project dedicated to Shakespeare, to be hosted in a castle in Puglia from April to December 2026. Conceived as a dialogue between visual arts, performance, and scholarship, the installation explores four thematic dimensions: conspiracy, magic, monologues, and Prospero’s voyage. Combining dramaturgical research and artistic practice, the project invites audiences to experience Shakespeare’s texts through sound, image, and space. The presentation will outline the creative and conceptual process behind the installations and reflect on how interdisciplinary collaboration can renew our encounter with Shakespeare’s works and global legacy.

Peter Bottazzi – Visual artist and set designer, co-designer of the installation project.
Michael Dobson – Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Francesco Longobardi / Pietro Copani – Direzione Generale Musei Nazionali Puglia.
Silvia Rigon – Artist and Dramaturg, co-designer of the installation project.

B.03
Skenè Series and the Shakespeare Festival at the Roman Theatre
22 July

B.04 David Swartz
Nothing From Nothing (A Film Adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear)
22 July

Description: With the intention to explore the aesthetic value of nothing, its miraculous ability and power to create itself out of itself and to inspire autonomous creativity in others, Nothing From Nothing (2025, Lisbon) reveals how nothing’s self-creating potential, referred to as Shakespeare’s Tenth Muse or Will to Nothing, turns loss to find, death to life, and none to many. “Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?” (King Lear 1.4) Alongside Lear’s Fool, the audience of this film is invited to ask: ‘what is the use value of nothing?’

B.05 Michele Marrapodi (JT)
Series Presentation
22 July

B.06
New Variorum Shakespeare 
23 July

B.07 Melinda Gough and Erin Kelly
Early Theatre: A Roundtable
23 July

Description: This roundtable introduces work behind the scenes at the journal Early Theatre. The journal’s editors, along with invited contributors and advisory board members, will discuss editorial practices, peer-review processes, our unique “Issues in Review” section, and efforts towards greater accessibility and equity. We will also speak to audience cultivation, scholarly reception, and tips for getting published.

B.08
New Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series
24 July

Peter Holland
Zachary Lesser
Tiffany Stern
Ayanna Thompson
Andrew Hartley

B.09
Meet the Editors: Publishing with Shakespeare Quarterly
24 July

Description: Join the editors of Shakespeare Quarterly for informal conversation about submitting work for publication, including what to submit and what to expect after you’ve submitted it. All are welcome, and early career scholars are particularly encouraged to attend.

B.10 Rebecca Goodheart, Josh Lubarr
Exploring Shakespeare’s Worldview: Seeing the Plays through Elizabethan Eyes
25 July

Description: This book salon/workshop explores Shakespeare’s World: Seeing the Plays through Elizabethan Eyes, a new work based on the teachings of Dennis Krausnick, a master teacher of classical acting and a founding member of Shakespeare & Company. This book offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding Shakespeare’s plays by immersing actors, scholars, and educators in the Elizabethan model of reality—the cosmology, physiology, and psychology that shaped the playwright’s language, characters, and themes. By bridging historical scholarship with practical theatrical application, the book serves as both an intellectual framework and a hands-on guide for engaging with Shakespeare’s texts in performance. This session invites scholars, theater practitioners, and educators to discuss the book’s central ideas and consider their impact on Shakespearean interpretation, pedagogy, and performance.