Salvador Oliva is a poet, writer, linguist and translator. He has translated all of Shakespeare’s works into Catalan and published numerous studies about Catalan metrics and essays centred on the English playwright, as well as other texts about literary and linguistic thought.

Photograph: La Mercè Municipal School of Humanities

Xavier Albertí is a stage director, actor and composer, as well as an author of theatre sets in Catalonia and in the Spanish state. He is one of the most outstanding Catalan artistic directors of recent decades. The most current of dead playwrights (and also living ones), William Shakespeare is a multi-faceted figure of a thousand faces that continues to fascinate today, perhaps more than ever. This cycle gathers together some of the finest specialists and most outstanding theatrical professionals in our country that have worked in the Shakesperian sphere.

Photograph: La Mercè Municipal School of Humanities

Cultural Centre La Mercè in Girona on Tuesday, 20 February, at 6.30 pm. This lecture is part of the cycle “Shakespeare today. Current visions of Shakespeare from theatrical theory and practice", organised by the Tom Sharpe Chair with the collaboration of the Escola Municipal d'Humanitats La Mercè.
The most current of the dead playwrights (and living ones), William Shakespeare, is a polyhedron of a thousand faces who continues to fascinate us today, maybe more than ever. This cycle brings together some of the finest specialists and most outstanding theatrical professionals in our country that have worked in the Shakesperian sphere.

Photograph: Escola Municipal d'Humanitats La Mercè

We are pleased to announce the lecture "Macbeth: political ambition or legitimacy"?, by Jordi Coca, at the Cultural Centre La Mercè in Girona on Tuesday, 30 January, at 6.30 pm. This lecture is part of the cycle “Shakespeare today. Current visions of Shakespeare from the perspective of theatre practice and theory”, organised by the Tom Sharpe Chair with the collaboration of La Mercè Municipal School of Humanities.

The most current of dead playwrights (and also living ones), William Shakespeare is a multi-faceted figure of a thousand faces that continues to fascinate today, perhaps more than ever. This cycle gathers together some of the finest specialists and most outstanding theatrical professionals in our country that have worked in the Shakesperian sphere.

Photograph: La Mercè Municipal School of Humanities

We are pleased to announce that, starting today, 16 November, you will be able to visit the Tom Sharpe Exhibition at the Barri Vell Campus Library of the University of Girona. The exhibition will be open until 8 January
. With this exhibition, you will have the opportunity to meet the outstanding figure Tom Sharpe, one of the most popular British novelists of the 20th century, who lived the last years of his life in Llafranc, and whose personal legacy we preserve in the Tom Sharpe Fund of the Campus Barri Vell Library. The exhibition is the initial activity of the 2023-24 academic year of the Tom Sharpe Chair at the University of Girona, which will continue with a set of other initiatives (a research grant, a short story competition, a course of conferences about William Shakespeare...), with the objective of promoting the literature in English language and of spreading the knowledge from the figure and the work of Tom Sharpe.
We invite you to enjoy this exhibition and to take part in the activities sheduled by the Chair
.