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This workshop will explore the dynamic relationship between performance, identity, the body and early modern drama.
It will begin with a brief talk on the cultural history and psychology of manual gesture, exploring how Shakespeare and
his contemporaries demonstrate an acute awareness of the performative capacities of the hand. Practitioners from
Shakespeare’s Globe will then ask participants to consider in practical ways how their bodies make meaning and how
gesture in particular forms part of the dramaturgy and narrative structure of dramatic texts.

Please register to attend.

Professor Farah Karim-Cooper (Professor of Shakespeare Studies, King’s College London and Co-Director of Education
at Shakespeare’s Globe) is hosted by Professor Nandini Das (Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at
Oxford University) as a current Visiting Fellow, supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.

During her Fellowship, Professor Karim-Cooper will lead two internal workshops in 2022, and deliver a public lecture
in 2023:

‘What is Globe Performance Practice’ took place during Trinity term, in May 2022.

‘Gesture on the Shakespearean Stage’ will take place during Michaelmas term:
11 November 2022, at St Cross Building (Manor Road, Oxford).

Staging Race in Shakespeare’s Theatres’ will take place in Hilary term:
26 April 2023, at the Fitzhugh Auditorium (Cohen Quad: Walton Street, Oxford).