Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Sensational Shakespeare"

This article is about the annual Shakespeare Birthday lecture. View the full list of all Shakespeare Birthday Lectures to date here. For other articles about Shakespeare's Birthday, see Shakespeare's Birthday (disambiguation).

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This was a lecture given by Russell Jackson on April 26, 2009.

Lecturer: Russell Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Drama, University of Birmingham, is the author of Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2007), ‘Henry Irving,’ in John Russell Brown, ed., The Routledge Companion to Directors’ Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 2008), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (Cambridge University Press, 2000; revised 2nd. ed., 2007),

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