SAT Conference 2024

The first heir of my invention
The mystery of the Southampton dedications and the genesis of Venus and Adonis and 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
Rudolf Steiner House
35 Park Road • London NW1 6XT

Tickets:
£60 per ticket (general admission)
£50 per ticket (pensioners)
£40 per ticket (students)

Speakers (not necessarily in order)

Professor William Leahy, Chairman of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust: Welcome.

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu: Opening address, ending with a reading by Mark Rylance of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis dedication to Southampton

Alice Oswald, Oxford Professor of Poetry 2019–2023: “Statues of the Goddess.”

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.

Film: “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; TBA representing Oxford; David Richardson representing Mary Sidney; Greg Thompson representing Neville; Amanda Hines representing Derby.

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 an Adonis throughout 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.

To purchase tickets: Marylebone Theatre Community Events

NOTE: The ticket link implies there is only one ticket price at £60, but AFTER you order the tickets and get to the checkout, you can choose which of the three prices you need.

Inquiries: ShakeAuthTrust@gmail.com

About the venue

The Marylebone Theatre states: “At the Marylebone Theatre, our goal is to produce distinctively visionary theatre, which explores and refreshes the great poetic tradition whilst boldly engaging with the pressing issues of our times. Drawing on the inspiration of theatre visionaries from Brook and Miller to Steiner and Chekhov, we aim to create performance art, which is daringly innovative and arrestingly beautiful. We place a special emphasis on intercultural creativity and the inspiration that arises from working across cultural barriers.”