Shakespeare Summer School

If you are passionate about Shakespeare and want to understand better how to perform his work, then our intensive, eight-week summer program is for you. The busy and exciting timetable is designed to deepen your comprehension of poetic drama. Working with Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, you’ll attend daily classes and rehearsals. You’ll engage with the language, style, and challenges of performing dramatic texts from these periods. In addition to practical classes and rehearsals, you will attend specialist lectures on understanding the social and historical context of Shakespeare’s writing. You’ll also visit key historical locations central to Shakespeare’s life and work, as well as watch productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon—the birthplace of Will...