Shakespeare Studies

Overview

This Shakespeare Studies MA programme is offered jointly by King's College London and Globe Education, allowing you to capitalise on the academic and practical expertise of both of these institutions.  Through this degree you will pursue advanced study of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, making use of the facilities and opportunities provided by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and by King’s. You will develop a detailed knowledge of early modern drama, particularly Shakespearean drama

Key benefits

• Unique collaboration between Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the Department of English, King’s College London.

• Ideal opportunity to study the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in a theatrical context in the heart of London.

• Graduates of the degree have gone on to study a PhD at King’s and at other major universities both in the UK and the US or to work in the creative industries, arts administration and publishing.

Career prospects

Our recent graduates have gone on to study PhDs at King’s and at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, CUNY, California, George Washington and Massachusetts, and subsequently to jobs at Cambridge, Kent, The Shakespeare Institute, Newcastle, and North Carolina. Others are using the skills they developed with us to excel in careers in arts administration at, for example, Globe Education, National Theatre, Barbican and English National Opera and to edit for publishers in the US and UK.