Summer course, by Isabel Guerrero

We are pleased to share this summer course at UNED, coordinated by Isabel Guerrero, a lecturer and researcher whose work has focused on Shakespeare in contemporary performance and in festivals of various kinds, and who took part in the 2025 Prelude Edition.

This course offers an exploration of the context and work of one of the most influential playwrights in the Western tradition, William Shakespeare. Over four days, specialists from a range of universities will examine the author, his body of work and his influence from multiple perspectives — historical, linguistic, cultural and religious — as well as the transmission, reinterpretation and staging of his texts from the seventeenth century to the contemporary stage.

Topics including the connections between Elizabethan England and the Spanish Golden Age, Shakespeare’s impact on twenty-first-century activism, and the playwright’s influence on diverse cultural and spiritual traditions will form part of a programme that approaches the study of Shakespeare from a multidisciplinary perspective. Combining an accessible approach with the necessary academic rigour, the course is aimed at the general public, particularly those wishing to deepen their knowledge of William Shakespeare, Anglophone culture, history and Western theatre.

Full course information is available here