SAT Authorship Conference 2024
To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the 3rd Earl of Southampton in November 1624
“The first heir of my invention”
The mystery of the Southampton dedications
and the genesis of Venus and Adonis & The Rape of Lucrece
We are delighted to invite you to our annual Shakespearean Authorship Conference:
Sunday • November 17 • 2024
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.Marylebone Theatre, London
Ticket information below
Speakers:
Professor William Leahy, Chairman of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust: Introduction and Welcome.
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu: Opening address.
Alice Oswald, Oxford Professor of Poetry 2019–2023: “Ted Hughes, Shakespeare, and the Long Poems.”
Julia Cleave, SAT Trustee: “Shakespeare is working in the mode of a Renaissance Artist”: How works by Titian and Romano are referenced in the two long poems.
TBA: “Henry Wriothesly, 3rd Earl of Southampton: A Story told through Portraits.”
Panel Q&A: Southampton and Which Author? Chair: William Leahy; Kevin Gilvary representing William Shaksper; Ros Barber representing Marlowe; Mark Rylance representing Bacon; Charles/James Beauclerk representing Oxford; David Richardson representing Mary Sidney; Greg Thompson representing Neville.
Ros Barber, SAT Director of Research: “The Unfortunate Dedication: Nashe, Southampton, and Shakespeare.”
David Richardson: Venus and Adonis and the Battle over the Legacy of Philip Sidney: How did the political and literary environment of 1590s London shape Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis?
Charles Beauclerk (author of Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom).
Honouring us with readings of Venus and Adonis on the day will be our excellent cast of actors, including Sir Mark Rylance and Annabel Leventon.* (All actors appear subject to availability on the given date.)
This is an in-person event. There will be no streaming option.