Event Date: 26 November 2015
Rose Theatre,
24-26 High Street,
Kingston, KT1 1HL
The Kingston Shakespeare Seminar
The Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS) brings leading Shakespeare scholars to the Rose, which the director Peter Hall created to be a “teaching theatre”. Here Sir Peter directed Dame Judi Dench in a celebrated production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”and Trevor Nunn staged the Barton / Hall ‘Wars of the Roses’. But KiSS also commemorates Kingston’s historic connection with Shakespeare, which goes back to David Garrick – who lived here, and built the beautiful Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames – and to the very first royal performances of some of his greatest plays in the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
Dr Christopher Pye (Williams College, MA) – King Lear, Sovereignty, and the Condition of Justice
Introduction by Professor Richard Wilson (Kingston):
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