Finding Shakespeare in the Royal Collection Back

Event Date(s): 17th Jun 2021 - 19th Jun 2021

Location: Online

 

Published on: 2nd Jun 2021

Finding Shakespeare in the Royal Collection

The AHRC-funded ‘Shakespeare in the Royal Collection’ project (ShaRC) – led by King’s College London and Birkbeck University of London in partnership with the Royal Collection Trust – is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its conference ‘Finding Shakespeare in the Royal Collection’, which is taking place via Zoom on Thursday 17-Saturday 19 June 2021.

The Royal Collection contains Shakespeare-related objects collected by generations of British monarchs, stretching back as far as Charles I, through principally concentrated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Since 2018 the AHRC-funded ShaRC project has been researching these holdings, and this conference brings together an international group of experts from fields including Shakespeare studies, history of art, collection studies, Romantic literature, and royal history, to explore some of these objects in greater detail. From paintings, rare books, prints and watercolours to furniture, decorative objects and photographs, these items tell a fascinating and overlapping set of stories about the intertwining across time of the Shakespearean afterlife and the royal family, the history of collecting, the histories of royalty and empire, and of elite and popular culture, as we seek answers to the paired questions: What has Shakespeare done for the royal family? And what has the royal family done for Shakespeare?

Attendees are invited to attend live online panels 17-19 June, or to view recorded panels for a limited time afterwards. We have speakers from Singapore to Texas, and the panels are timed across the day to maximise the possibility of attendance worldwide.

To view the full conference programme, please see https://sharc.kcl.ac.uk/events

The online conference platform is Zoom webinar. For any access queries, please email sharc@kcl.ac.uk.

The conference is free to attend but registration is essential. To register please see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-shakespeare-in-the-royal-collection-tickets-148638099557.