Shakespeare Lives in 2016
- Passions in the Craft of Will Conference Book
- 31 May
- 2 dakikada okunur
The programme, run globally by the British Council and the GREAT Britain campaign, commemorated Shakespeare as a playwright for all people and all nations. More than 140 countries took
part in the festivities, with people experiencing Shakespeare through film screenings, exhibitions, and performances alongside a programme of unique online collaborations.
As part of this global year of ommemoration to the great Bard, we co-organised the “Passions in the Craft of Will: Shakespeare Lives” Conference with Yaşar University on 4 October 2016 at the Yaşar University Campus in Bornova, İzmir. The conference gathered academicians and writers from Turkey and the UK under the universal theme of Shakespeare.
Following this intense conference day, we are publishing this e-book to make the content
accessible to wider audiences internationally. Online resources such as presentation videos
and conference photos remain available. This also includes the Turkey edition of Walking
Cities – the innovative short film series inspired by Shakespeare – where journalists and
writers Chimene Suleyman, living in London and New York, and Kaya Genç, based in
Istanbul, talk about The Comedy of Errors while Alkin in the ancient city and ruins of
Ephesus.
The British Council would like to thank the conference speakers who also kindly submitted
their papers for this publication, the Department of English Language and Literature of Yaşar University for their partnership and work on the conference, and above all to Trevor Hope whose commitment and passion for both Shakespeare and Turkey made this collaboration possible.
resources at shakespearelives.org.
About the British Council in Turkey
The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and
educational opportunities.
We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other
countries.
We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with –
changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections, and engendering trust.
We work in over 100 countries around the world in the fields of arts and culture, English
language, education, and civil society.
Each year we reach more than 20 million people face-to-face and more than 500 million
people online, via broadcasts and publications.
Founded in 1934, we are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body.
We have been in Turkey since 1940 and work in these centres. Every year, we reach out to
thousands of students, educators, policymakers, academics, researchers, creatives, and
entrepreneurs in Turkey.
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