| Administrative History | Robert Smallwood was a Research Assistant at the Shakespeare Institute in 1964 and was awarded both an MA and PhD there. He became a Fellow in 1966 and continued to work at the Institute until his move to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1989. He was Deputy Director and Head of Education at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust until his retirement in 2001. In his role as Head of Education, he directed courses in Stratford on the repertoire of the Royal Shakespeare Company and under the joint auspices of the Shakespeare Institute and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for up to forty universities a year from more than a dozen countries. He has also held visiting Professorthips at the Universities of Tubingen and Dijon.
He is a retired Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute whose principal research interest is in Shakespeare in performance
Source: biography University of Birmingham website https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/shakespeare/smallwood-robert.aspx Accessed February 2024 |
| Custodial History | Previously held at the Shakespeare Institute and surveyed in 2006 |