PROPOSITION
OPPOSITION
Ben Crystal is an English actor, author, and producer. He has co-written books on Shakespeare’s life and writing style with his father David Crystal. Ben’s first solo book, ‘Shakespeare on Toast – Getting a Taste for the Bard’ was shortlisted for Educational Writer of the Year Award 2010.
Dame Marina Warner CBE is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, and the President of the Royal Society of Literature. She was the winner of the 2015 Holberg Prize and gave the BBC’s Reith Lectures in 1994. Her recent works include ‘Inventory of a Life Mislaid’ and ‘Forms of Enchantment: Writing on Art and Artists’.
Prof Michael Dobson is Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham, and an honorary governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His research interests focus on how Shakespeare’s work has inspired others.
Prof Kiernan Ryan is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Murray Edwards, and a Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute. An internationally renowned Shakespeare critic, he has written substantial publications on Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Shakespeare’s last plays.
Student speaker This could be you! Audition details can be found on page 6.
Student speaker This could be you! Audition details can be found on page 6.
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