Professor Julia Briggs
August 19, 2008
Professor Ann Thompson, Head of the School of Humanities at King’s College London and a general editor for the Arden Shakespeare, will present the 2008 Julia Briggs Memorial Lecture. The lecture, entitled Staging Shakespeare’s Plays at the Globe: Then and Now, will be given 6 September at King’s College London.
Most recently, Thompson edited a two-volume edition of Hamlet for the Arden 3 Shakespeare series. She has published extensively in the fields of editing and textual studies, women readers, Shakespeare criticism and Shakespeare’s language.
“We are very grateful to Professor Thompson for agreeing to give this lecture, the first to be given under the British Shakespeare Association’s recently acquired status as a charitable institution,” said Deborah Cartmell of the British Shakespeare Association.
The lecture is named for Professor Julia Briggs, OBE, who died last year from a brain tumor at the age of 63. Briggs was a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford and Chair of the Oxford English Faculty before being appointed Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at De Montfort University. Her publications include Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, Edith Nesbit: A Woman of Passion and This Stage Play World: English Literature and Its Background, 1580-1625. She was also known for championing women’s writing and developing the study of children’s literature. Briggs was instrumental in organizing the first British Shakespeare Association Conference in 2005.
The Julia Briggs Memorial Lecture will be presented by the British Shakespeare Association on 6 September, 6-7pm, at the Strand Campus of King’s College London in the Council Room of the Main Building. The lecture is open to the public.
Web Resources:
Map of King’s College London, Strand Campus
British Shakespeare Association
