Roland Weidle's A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets is set to release with Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare in November 2024.

This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, introducing them to the literary tradition, themes, stylistic features and cultural contexts of the genre and the collection, and offering close readings of more than 100 sonnets.

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The autumn conference of the German Shakespeare Society will take place on 22 and 23 November 2024 in Weimar and is traditionally dedicated to one play - this year it is Troilus and Cressida. The German National Theatre Weimar will be showing Othello (directed by Adewale Adebisi) as part of the conference on 22 November, and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar will be offering guided tours of the special exhibitions 'Sophie. Macht. Literatur' and 'Caspar David Friedrich, Goethe und die Moderne'.

The organisers of the student conference 'Narrating Truth' announce their programme.

The student conference 'Narrating Truth. Mediation and Negotiation of Truth in Pre-Modern Media' is being organised by students of the interdisciplinary Master's degree programme 'Medieval and Renaissance Studies' (MaRS) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum with support of the 'Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies' (CeMaRS) and the 'Studentische Initiativprojekte'.

Click here to see the programme.