Shakespearean Authorship Trust Annual Conference 2024

The first heir of my invention: The mystery of the Southampton dedications and the genesis of Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece

We are delighted to invite you to our annual Shakespearean Authorship Conference:

Sunday, November 17, 2024, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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; Charles/James Beauclerk representing Oxford; David Richardson representing Mary Sidney; Greg Thompson representing Neville.

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 an Adonis throughout 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.

Tickets:
     £60 per ticket (general admission)
     £50 per ticket (pensioners)
     £40 per ticket (students)

‍NOTE: The ticket link implies there is only one ticket price at £60, but AFTER you order the tickets and get to the checkout, you can change from standard to pensioner or student tickets

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