Digital Forum Academy: Shakespeare Deep Dive
Back by popular demand! Study up on each of the Shakespeare plays coming to the stage in Stratford's 2026 season. Pull your tights up and leap with merriment into the text to explore genre, Shakespeare’s sources, his dramatic structure, and explore central images and motifs. Over this three-week online series, you'll read the full text of the play, contextualizing it within Shakespeare’s life and times through guided instruction and class discussion with Professor Jonathan Ullyot.
No experience is required, except an interest (and maybe love) of Shakespeare. Each series is a maximum of 15 students and will offer the same content.
Jonathan Ullyot is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, earned a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and teaches literature at the Universities of Toronto and Chicago and Seneca College.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theatre of Disorder
Explore one of Shakespeare's most popular and widely performed comedies, which invokes the disorder and chaos of a dream and a pagan rite of spring. We'll discuss the genre of comedy, Shakespeare's classical sources, and the ritual aspects of this play.
This Digital Forum Academy series is being presented twice and will offer the same content. Each Series consists of three online seminars that take place weekly and three pre-recorded lectures. A digital copy of the text will be provided. Seminar dates are non-interchangeable across the Series. Please choose from:
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Series B, Beginning March 12
- Seminar 1: Thursday, March 12 | 4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
- Seminar 2: Thursday, March 13 | 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
- Seminar 3: Thursday, March 14 | 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Or
Buy tickets for A Midsummer Night's Dream: Series A