To Be, or Not To Be...double trouble in Shakespeare - Jeremy Holmes
Wed 18 Nov
|Colston Hall, GXCA
What do ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘Hamlet’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ all have in common? And why are pairs, parallels and doubles so important in Shakespeare?
Time & Location
18 Nov 2026, 10:00 – 12:00
Colston Hall, GXCA, 8 East Common, Gerrards Cross SL9 7AD, UK
About the Event
What do ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘Hamlet’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ all have in common? And why are pairs, parallels and doubles so important in Shakespeare? This talk discusses how these devices work, the way they reflect the challenges of life, and why they make some of his best known plays so compelling. The speaker was an English Literature scholar at Oxford, where he was involved in a number of Shakespearean productions, before having a career that included a national role in higher education.