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[Cancelled] "Shakespeare After Shakespeare," a lecture by Rory Loughnane, University of Kent

In an abundance of caution and to ensure social distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak, this event has been cancelled.

After Shakespeare died in 1616, Thomas Middleton adapted at least four of his plays for the King's Men and it these versions of All's Well that Ends Well, Macbeth, Measure for Measure and Titus Andronicus that are included in the 1623 folio collection of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Middleton, sixteen years Shakespeare's junior, knew Shakespeare personally and professionally, and was privy to his working practices from their one-time collaboration on Timon of Athens. Such insider knowledge necessarily influenced how and why he adapted Shakespeare's plays. This presentation, which focuses on the final years in which Shakespeare was still writing for the theatres, 1606-1613/14, analyses Shakespeare and Middleton's interactions and disparate career paths at this time, and offers a broader discussion about Shakespeare's late phase and retirement.

Rory Loughnane is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is an Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare, for which he edited more than ten plays, and co-authored, with Gary Taylor, a book-length study of 'The Canon and Chronology of Shakespeare's Works'. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Early Shakespeare, 1588-1594 (Cambridge, 2020) and his forthcoming Complete Works of Cyril Tourneur (Revels Plays). He is a General Editor of The Oxford Marlowe and Series Editor of Routledge's Studies in Early Modern Authorship. He was awarded the 2019 Hoffman Prize for distinguished work in Marlowe studies.