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Project Partners

We are working with a range of exciting institutions, partners, and practitioners, who are supporting the project in a number of invaluable ways. Before Shakespeare is funded by the AHRC and the University of Roehampton.

Our Partners:

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) is an experienced and innovative archaeology and built heritage practice. They are providing archaeological support and conversation (at a time when exciting archaeological discoveries are being made at the Curtain theatre dig in Shoreditch), and we will be involved alongside them in a number of events.   

The Dolphin's Back

The Dolphin’s Back has already rescued two forgotten plays from this period, staging both Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris and John Lyly’s The Woman In the Moon in 2014. Now, director James Wallace and Before Shakespeare embark on a series of 12 workshops putting the theatrical evidence on its feet, exploring a range of early texts and archival sources, looking at the very first playhouses and the people and plays inside them.

Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare’s Globe are hosting four Before Shakespeare Read Not Dead readings.

Emma Frankland & Myriddin Wannell

We are thrilled to be working alongside Emma Frankland and Myriddin Wannell. Emma’s currently preparing a production of John Lyly’s Galatea (see the image on our homepage); the production will see workshops of the play held this summer–in an event co-sponsored by the journal Shakespeare Bulletin and the University of Roehampton–with plans for a full production in 2017.

Our Advisory Board

We are proud of our diverse advisory board, which combines early career researchers and established scholars, a practitioner, and an archaeologist. This eclectic and open-minded approach is central to Before Shakespeare.