11th World Shakespeare Congress, 18-24 July, 2021 (and raspberry picking time)

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The 11th World Shakespeare Congress takes place this year from the 18th through the 24th of July. (Many thanks to a member of the Facebook “Shakespeare and Early Modern friends” forum for alerting readers to this.)

On Monday, July 19, this will include a panel/Q&A on Hamlet, from 11:10-11:40 Singapore Time. (Times on the program are all listed in Singapore Time, UTC+08).

There will be a Pre-Congress opening on July 1 which will feature
14 recorded panels,
10 online performances,
and 8 watch parties “with directors sharing and discussing clips.”

Register at http://www.wsc2021.org/registration.html

Program image (below raspberry pics) from http://wsc2021.org/wsc.pdf



My son is visiting from out of town, so we are doing some special activities with our son and daughter this week.

Also, it is raspberry-picking season in our backyard (we have 4 varieties of reds, one of blacks, and one of purples, all ripening and ready to pick each day, yielding many quarts for fresh eating and for use in jams).

Added to this, sadly, we also have friends and family struggling with illness, so my attention is otherwise occupied this week.

But next week I will offer yet another installment in my Lazarus-in-Hamlet series, so check back then for more!

Program for 11th World Shakespeare Congress, July 2021:
And again, here's that link to the PDF of the program: http://wsc2021.org/wsc.pdf
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This blog, “Hamlet’s Bible,” has had more than 250,000 views from 84 countries as of July, 2026. Author Paul Adrian Fried has an MFA in English and Creative Writing with a thesis in Poetry, and a Master’s thesis in Creative Nonfiction. For the B.A. he studied English and Theology (double-major), with a Theology senior paper on Christology. During his studies, he won various awards for his prose and poetry, and met with writers such as Margaret Atwood, Donald Justice, and Lisel Mueller, and Robert Bly; hermeneutics scholar Hans Georg Gadamer; and theologian Rosemary Haughton. After the B.A. and before his graduate studies, he worked as a church choir director and liturgist. He has presented at Shakespeare Association of America, Sixteenth Century Society, Christianity and Literature, and Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.