Name: The Shakespearean Authorship Trust Annual Gathering [Event 1]
Start: 2025-11-16T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-16T13:30:00+00:00
Location: Marylebone Theatre

The Shakespearean Authorship Trust Annual Gathering [Event 1]

"to write and read comes by nature": Imagining an alternative Shakespeare
About this Event

Fiction has always played an important role in our culture's imaginings of Shakespeare (Shakespeare in Love; All is True; Nothing Like the Sun; Hamnet) and has worked generally to confirm the traditional historical narrative of his life and genius. Fiction has played an equally important role in our culture's imaginings of an alternative author of the works, one which paints an entirely different picture to those more orthodox portrayals and which opens the historical narrative to much wider possibilities. Today's conference will discuss and examine some of the most significant of these "alternative fictions" with the writers themselves introducing us to their stories. Additionally, the SAT will announce the launch of its new and exciting essay competition.

NOTE:

Buying this ticket permits you access to the first part of our gathering only. If you would also like to attend the afternoon event (A performance of Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers), you can purchase a separate ticket here

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-marlowe-papers-a-one-man-play-tickets-1750491018759?aff=oddtdtcreator

Agenda

🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Introduction
🕑: 10:10 AM - 11:00 AM
Waiting for Hamnet: Where we are in the Authorship Question (a personal view)

Info: Professor William Leahy

🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
"By Any Other Name": interview with Jodi Picoult (pre-recorded)
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Coffee break (coffee and tea provided)
🕑: 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
SAT essay competition launch
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Shakespeare's Dante

Info: Rita Monaldi, Francesco Sorti, Theodora Sorti