New Mexico Museum of Art to host Shakespeare exhibition in 2016

The New Mexico Museum of Art has been selected as the one New Mexico venue to host an exhibition of First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare in 2016.

Spring 2016 may be far away, but this upcoming exhibition will be of interest to those teaching early English literature, theater history and performance, and Southwest literature.

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare will feature a copy of the 1623 Folio of Shakespeare's plays. A series of events will explore the Folio's significance in terms of Shakespeare, theater, and our state. Sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Cincinnati Museum Center, American Libraries Association, and National Endowment for the Humanities, the exhibition comes to NMMoA after a competitive application process to select one host institution in each of the fifty states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. 

Assistant Professor Marissa Greenberg will be speaking on local Shakespeare, as part of her ongoing work on the history and performance of Shakespearean adaptation in New Mexico. First Folio! will be on display February 5th through 28th, 2016.

Lecture: David Bevington on "Religion and Shakespeare"

To mark the retirement of our colleague Barry Gaines after thirty years of teaching at UNM, the noted  Shakespeare scholar David Bevington will speak on Tuesday, November 9 at 4 p.m.  His talk is entitled  "Religion and Shakespeare."

David Bevington has taught at the University of Chicago since 1967 and is currently the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities; Professor in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature; Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities; and Chair of Theater and Performance Studies.  He is among the most respected Shakespeare scholars in the world and has written or edited more than thirty volumes on Shakespeare and his contemporaries.  In 1979 he was honored with the  Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, a coveted  award based on student nominations.  Twenty-eight years later he received the Norman Maclean Faculty Award given by the University of Chicago Alumni Association.  Last May, he received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal from Harvard University, where he received his AB and PhD degrees.

Royal Shakespeare Company PBS Broadcast of Hamlet

PBS to broadcast Hamlet - Wednesday 28 April at 8pm EST

In 2009 a film company called Illuminations recorded the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning 2008 production of Hamlet, directed by RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, for broadcast on national UK television for the BBC.

The play was shot on location with the original cast including David Tennant and Patrick Stewart and using all the original costumes and props. The RSC now confirm that this filmed version of Hamlet will be broadcasted on PBS on Wednesday 28 April.