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The Shakespearean Authorship Trust 2024 conference on Shakespeare, Southampton, and the Long Poems
“The first heir of my invention”
The mystery of the Southampton dedications
and the genesis of Venus and Adonis & The Rape of Lucrece
The Shakespearean Authorship Trust invites all who doubt to our 2024 conference on Shakespeare, Southampton, and the Long Poems with readings by Mark Rylance and friends.
To book please click the following link:
https://www.marylebonetheatre.com/productions/the-first-heir-of-my-invention
Sunday • November 17 • 2024
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Marylebone Theatre, London
Ticket information below
Speakers:
Professor William Leahy, Chairman of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust: Introduction and Welcome.
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu: Opening address.
Alice Oswald, Oxford Professor of Poetry 2019–2023: “Ted Hughes, Shakespeare, and the Long Poems.”
Julia Cleave, SAT Trustee: “Shakespeare is working in the mode of a Renaissance Artist”: How works by Titian and Romano are referenced in the two long poems.
TBA: “Henry Wriothesly, 3rd Earl of Southampton: A Story told through Portraits.”
Panel Q&A: Southampton and Which Author? Chair: William Leahy; Kevin Gilvary representing William Shaksper; Ros Barber representing Marlowe; Mark Rylance representing Bacon; TBA representing Oxford; David Richardson representing Mary Sidney; Greg Thompson representing Neville; Amanda Hinds representing Derby.
Ros Barber, SAT Director of Research: “The Unfortunate Dedication: Nashe, Southampton, and Shakespeare.”
David Richardson: Venus and Adonis and the Battle over the Legacy of Philip Sidney: How did the political and literary environment of 1590s London shape Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis?
Charles Beauclerk (author of Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom).
Honouring us with readings of Venus and Adonis on the day will be our excellent cast of actors, including Sir Mark Rylance and Annabel Leventon.* (All actors appear subject to availability on the given date.)
This is an in-person event. There will be no streaming option.
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Sunday • November 17 • 2024
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Marylebone Theatre
Rudolf Steiner House
35 Park Road • London NW1 6XT
To purchase tickets: Marylebone Theatre Community Events
£60 per ticket (general admission)
£50 per ticket (pensioners)
£40 per ticket (students)
NOTE: The link implies there is only one ticket price at £60, but AFTER you order the tickets and get to the checkout, you can choose which of the three prices you need.
https://www.marylebonetheatre.com/productions/the-first-heir-of-my-invention
Inquiries: ShakeAuthTrust@gmail.com