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SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP DEBATE – HAVE WE ALL BEEN PLAYED In early June, the ESU hosted the ‘Shakespeare Authorship Debate’ in conjunction with Sony Pictures and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. This was to promote the release of multiaward-winning director Roland Emmerich’s latest film, Anonymous, staring Derek Jacobi, Vanessa Redgrave and Rhys Ifans. Emmerich, best known for directing CGI-laden blockbusters such as Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, was joined by Professor Stanley Wells, Professor Michael Dobson, Rev Dr Paul Edmondson, Charles Beauclerk and Dr William Leahy. Both sides debated the motion ‘This House Believes that William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon wrote the plays and poems attributed to him’. To a packed room, the eminent panellists debated conspiracy theories, signatures, the role of Hamlet as autobiography and whether Shakespeare was, in fact, an uneducated commoner and eminent fraudster. At one stage, Dr Leahy branded Shakespeare “an opportunist”, and claimed he had stolen the works and “passed them off as his own”. Paul Edmondson, Head of Learning and Research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, rebutted that “this evening we have been entertained by a post-modern cocktail of historical fact and historical fiction.”The questions from the floor were no less heated, with guests, some of whom had travelled across the Atlantic for the evening, passionately giving their views on the authorship subject which chairman James Probert said “has been going on for long before we arrived here tonight and will continue long after this evening ends.” While a vote indicated a resounding win for the proposition, the conversations being had as the audience left ESU Dartmouth House indicated that there was far more to discuss, and that the question of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays is far from resolved. Have we all been played That is the question. DIALOGUE 18
SCHOOLS MACE AND PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION FOR SCHOOLS This year’s schools’ competitions are underway with more than 350 schools from all over England registered for the Schools Mace and over 320 English and Welsh schools registered for the Public Speaking Competition. This year has also seen an increase in the number of schools taking part in our ‘Discover Your Voice’ training programme in preparation for both competitions. In September, we released the new Speech and Debate Competition Handbook, which is available to download from the ESU website. As well as containing the rules of both competitions and an explanation of their formats, the handbook contains lots of tips and guidelines for students, teachers and adjudicators on various aspects of both competitions (how to construct a speech, how to improve delivery, how to deal with questions and points of information, and much more). The first rounds of the Schools Mace have already begun across the country and will run between November and Christmas. The second rounds will take place in January and mid-February and the regional finals, in mid-February and March. We have set the date for the England final of the Schools Mace - Friday 30 March. The International final of the Schools Mace, which will see the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh champions compete against each other, will take place on Saturday 28 April. Both events will be hosted at ESU Dartmouth House in London. The first rounds of the Public Speaking Competition for Schools are also underway with first round heats and branch finals taking place across England and Wales between November and early February. All branch rounds should be completed by spring half-term and the regional finals will happen in late February and March. The date for the UK final of the Public Speaking Competition for Schools has also been set. It will take place on Saturday 12 May at Goodenough College in London. The final of the International Public Speaking Competition, which will see last year’s Best Speaker compete against speakers from over 50 countries around the globe, takes place on 17-18 May. DIALOGUE 19
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