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Prof. Dr. Roland Weidle

Lehrstuhl für Anglistik, insbesondere Literatur der Shakespearezeit und frühen Neuzeit

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A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets

Out now! Roland Weidle's A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets, published by Bloomsbury, The Arden Shakespeare.

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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Verbundprojekt

Graduiertenkolleg 2945 // Research Training Group 2945

Wissen – Glauben – Behaupten: Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung in der Vormoderne

Knowing – Believing – Asserting: Production and Enforcement of Truth in the Premodern Period

German Shakespeare Society

Autumn Conference in Weimar

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'.

23–25 October 2024

Student Conference: Narrating Truth

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.

Office hours

Administration

GB 6/133

Office hours during Winter Term 24/25

TUE 10-12
WED 10-12
THU 10-12

Roland Weidle

GB 6/134

Office hours during Winter Term 24/25

TUE 14–15

Office hours during lecture-free time

WED 10–11
- 12.02.
- 26.02.
- 12.03.
- 26.03.
- 09.04.

Please make an appointment through staff-anglistik1[at]rub.de

Contact

Room: GB 6/134
E-Mail: Roland Weidle
Tel.: +49 234 32-27943
ORCID-iD 0009-0006-4512-2361
E-Mail: Administration