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Friday, February 28, 2025

Spanish Tragedy Receives Honorable Mention from Shakespeare Association of America

The Shakespeare Association of America just announced that Professor Alice Dailey and Professor Chelsea Phillips's production of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy won honorable mention for the Shakespeare Publics Award.

Per the Association's website, "This award recognizes pioneering and/or culturally significant efforts to foster, engage, support and sustain broad and diverse Shakespeare publics through teaching, scholarship, performance and/or activism."

All the Association's prizes will be awarded at their annual conference, next month in Boston.

Congratulations, Dr. Dailey and Dr. Phillips!

You can read more about The Spanish Tragedy on the project's website.

courtesy of spanishtragedy.villanova.edu