Jo Durrant presents: Dr Chris Laoutaris & Shakespeare’s First Folio

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Tuesday 3rd June 7pm – in Script Haven

Jo Durrant in conversation with Dr Chris Laoutaris discussing “Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio”

Dr Chris Laoutaris is an Associate Professor at The Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham), in Shakespeare’s birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio (William Collins), which was a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year, a BBC Radio 4 Front Row Non-Fiction Book of the Year, an Australian Book Review Book of the Year, a Telegraph India Best Non-Fiction ‘Page Turner’ of the Year, and a Financial Times Best Summer Book.

In addition to numerous academic publications, he has published Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe (Penguin), which was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize for Biography, was an Observer Book of the Year, Telegraph Book of the Year, one of the New York Post’s ‘Must-Read Books’, and one of the Daily Telegraph’s top ten history holiday reads.

Laoutaris has written for the Financial Times, Sunday Express, Times Higher Education Supplement, BBC History Magazine, and the Times Literary Supplement, among others; has provided historical and Shakespearean consultancy to the Royal Shakespeare Company and numerous film and documentary production companies; and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Fellow by Invitation of the English Association.