Yale has launched a semester-long celebration of Shakespeare. Check it out:
Shakespeare at Yale is a multi-venued celebration in the spring of 2012 that will display the extraordinary resources that exist at the University for the study and enjoyment of Shakespeare. From an exhibition of the magnificent collection of early printed editions of Shakespeare’s plays in the Beinecke Library and the Elizabethan Club, to a production of The Winter's Tale at the world famous Yale Repertory Theatre, to the display at the Yale University Art Gallery of the brilliant Shakespearean paintings by the great American painter Edwin Austin Abbey, Shakespeare will be visible everywhere this semester at Yale. There will be performances of plays by student dramatic groups, concerts of Elizabethan music by undergraduate, graduate, and professional performers, opera and musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s plays, a series of Shakespearean films, and remarkable exhibitions of paintings, drawings, prints, artifacts, and medical instruments of early modern England on display at the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, and other campus venues. The exhibitions in galleries and libraries will be accompanied by a permanent web exhibition. Leading Shakespearean scholars and theater practitioners will be on campus for a variety of lectures, gallery talks, and public conversations. A video will be created which will capture highlights of the festival. Every single day of the term will offer at least one way to participate in this semester-long festival, as we recognize the stunning resources that are here at Yale and the amazing ability of Shakespeare to enrich our lives continually. Truly there is something here for everyone, compelling evidence that Shakespeare is indeed our playwright as much as he was of his own era, “not of an age,” as Ben Jonson wrote, “but for all time
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