# Shakespearean Studies ## expand\_more ![shakespeare statue](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/mahindra/files/shakespeare.jpg?itok=vs9wPu3b) Designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist, textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism. ## Past Events [### Salvaged from Shakespeare: Indigenizing Theater through Language and Protocol ](/event/salvaged-shakespeare-indigenizing-theater-through-language-and-protocol?occ_id=0)Apr 17, 2026 | 5:30PM EDT [### Desunt Nonnulla: Unfinishing Early Modern Studies ](/event/desunt-nonnulla-unfinishing-early-modern-studies?occ_id=0)Mar 27, 2026 | 5:30PM EDT [### Lear Ludens: Or, Shakespeare and the Play of Catastrophe ](/event/lear-ludens-or-shakespeare-and-play-catastrophe?occ_id=0)Feb 27, 2026 | 5:30PM EST [ More past events arrow\_circle\_right ](/calendar/past_events?f%5B0%5D=event_hwp_c_seminars%3A170389) ## Chairs [### William Carroll ](/people/william-carroll) ![William Carroll](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/william_carroll.jpg?itok=jTBYkm_5) [### Coppélia Kahn ](/people/copp%C3%A9lia-kahn) [Coppelia\_Kahn@brown.edu](mailto:Coppelia_Kahn@brown.edu) ![Coppelia Kahn](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/mahindra/files/coppelia_kahn.jpg?itok=bpm7M7yF) [### Stephen Spiess ](/people/stephen-spiess) ![Stephen Spiess headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/spiess-stephen-1.jpg?itok=aM-xI9cC) [### Leah Whittington ](/people/leah-whittington) ![Leah Whittington headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/whittington.jpg?itok=kMQPC3IM) See also:- [ Seminars ](/page-type/seminars) - [ Shakespearean Studies ](/seminars/shakespearean-studies)