Diverse Shakespeare at Shakespeare’s Globe

Project title:

Public Engagement: Diverse Shakespeare at Shakespeare’s Globe

“This project will create compelling materials to inform a broad range of people about the diversities that are so often written out of the history of the Shakespearean period.”

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Project proposal:

This public engagement project will call on the research findings of the Engendering the Stage project team (based in English and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities), consulting with Dr. Onyeka Nubia, to train key members of staff at Shakespeare’s Globe in new research into diversity in the Shakespearean period. This will draw on Engendering the Stage’s research in diverse early modern performers such as women, gender nonconforming individuals, disabled performers and performers of colour, we will design and deliver 4 training workshops for

1) Shakespeare’s Globe tour guides to empower them in their interactions with the general public;

2) Globe Education Practitioners, to support them in delivering inclusive schools workshops as part of Globe Education outreach.

This work will support the Globe’s ‘whole building’ approach to inclusivity and anti-racism. We will equip these key staff groups to change opinions beyond existing ticket-buying audiences, reaching into a broader group of visitors and into local communities in Southwark. We aim to support the Globe in its ongoing challenge to the gatekeeping of Shakespeare, and broaden the constituencies who can claim this literary period as their own.

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