EMC CPD Webinar: Keats Encounters the Shakespeare Folio
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £20 per place
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Location - Online
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Duration - 2-3.30pm
See Booking Details for how to take advantage of our 2 for 1 offer.
Overview of course
This talk will explore John Keats’s creative encounter with his predecessor Shakespeare, focusing on the young poet’s engagement specifically with his 1808 facsimile copy of the 1623 Shakespeare folio. In that book, Keats inscribed an original poem in the space left by the printer between the end of Hamlet and the beginning of King Lear, explaining that it demanded a prologue. The talk will situate this act in the context of Keats’s immediate literary-cultural influences, such as Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt, and in the larger historical context. Keats wrote in the early nineteenth century, a time of lively, intersecting historical changes: the rise of literacy rates, the emergence of the professional writer and hostile reviewing culture, and what one historian has called ‘the industrial revolution of the book’. Keats was equally interested in the spaces on the page and in the places where one chose to read books, and we will examine cultural links between these book spaces. Keats’s inscription by hand in the Shakespeare volume and his self-representations as a reader of books in a snug metropolitan study reveal how the young poet sought to imagine his place ‘among the English poets’.
The lecture, intended to enhance teachers' subject knowledge, will be introduced by EMC's Emma Barker. It will be followed by a Q&A, again mediated by Emma.
This course will be recorded but attendees will not be audible or visible.
EMC's Webinar Packages
- This webinar is included in EMC's Webinar Packages. For details of the EMC Termly Webinar Package – Summer 2026 and to order for your department, click here.
- See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department already has the EMC Annual Webinar Package or the EMC Termly Webinar Package – Summer 2026.
Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.
- If relevant, course materials will be sent the day before the course in the email with your joining instructions. Please either print these out or have them available on screen during the session.
- After the session you will receive the PowerPoint presentation and any resources used on the course.
- After the session you will receive a link to register to watch a recording of this session on-demand until 31st August 2026.
How to join this course if your department has bought the webinar package
- To join the live session, register using the registration link sent to the departmental key contact. You can register to join the live session right up to the start of the webinar. Use the unique link sent by [email protected] to join the webinar on the day.
- To watch the recording on-demand, register using the on-demand registration link sent to the departmental key contact the day after the live session. This email will also include the PowerPoint presentation and any additional resources. On-demand access expires 31st August 2026.
Emma Barker
Emma Barker worked as an English teacher for many years in London schools, leading each of the key stages before becoming Head of English. At the EMC since 2016, she ran the English with media/drama PGCE course until 2023 and continues to teach the English side of EMC's Media with English PGCE with Goldsmiths, as well as working on student conferences and A Level courses at the Centre
Emily Wing Rohrbach
Emily Wing Rohrbach is Associate Professor of English, 1660-1832 at Durham University. She has previously taught English at the University of Manchester (UK), Northwestern University (USA), and Hamilton College (NY, USA). She is the author of two books: Modernity’s Mist: British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation (Fordham UP, 2016) and Codex Poetics and the Politics of Romantic Reading (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2026). Keats is her favorite poet.EMC's Webinar Packages
- This webinar is included in EMC's Webinar Packages. For details of the EMC Termly Webinar Package – Summer 2026 and to order for your department, click here.
- See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department already has the EMC Annual Webinar Package or the EMC Termly Webinar Package – Summer 2026.
Booking this course as a 'one-off' purchase
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Tuesday 19th May 2026, or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course is part of our 2 for 1 offer
- Book a place on this course and you’ll be sent a voucher code entitling you to book a further place on the same course for a colleague at your school. Your code will be emailed to you as soon as we have received your booking.
- Please note: bookings for this course close at 8am on Tuesday 19th May 2026. The 2nd free place must be booked before the closing date, so please make sure you give yourself enough time!
- Your voucher can only be redeemed online and is only eligible against this course.
(Any issues please email Lucy.)
- This course must be booked and paid for online. Payment by invoice is not available for this session. Please note: your fee is non-refundable.
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Cancellation and amendments
- Afternoon and twilight webinars must be paid for by card at the time of booking.
- The fee is non-refundable.
- However, the webinars are recorded. Anyone who books a place on the course will be sent a link to register to access the recording of the webinar until 31st August 2026, regardless of whether they attended live.