Shakespeare Studies PhD

University of Birmingham

Course overview Conduct your research at The Shakespeare Institute, our leading centre for Shakespeare studies. You'll join a community of scholars in Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon and access the most comprehensive Shakespeare studies collection in the UK. Benefit from our unique resources including dedicated Shakespeare library facilities and weekly seminars sharing the latest research. Enhance your research through our collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). This dynamic collaboration sees researchers and academic staff join RSC artists to explore Shakespeare through creative and critical approaches. Course highlights Research Shakespeare and his contemporaries in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. There's no better place in the world to study Shakespeare. You'll have The Shakespeare Institute, the RSC theatres, and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust archives all on your doorstep. Immerse yourself in Shakespeare's life and walk the very streets he grew up in. A day of research could involve looking through archival records in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, checking sources in The Shakespeare Institute library, attending a research seminar, and then watching a performance at one of the Royal Shakespeare Company theatres.

Department of English Literature