Experts Guide – Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth tradition
Professor Ewan FernieMA, PhD
Chair of Shakespeare Research and Fellow
Shakespeare Institute
Professor Fernie leads the Every part to All people venture which options in a significant exhibition opening on 22 July on the Library of Birmingham as a part of the official Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games Cultural Programme. The venture revives, interrogates and seeks to replace George Dawson’s Nineteenth-century mission of building a ‘cultural commonwealth’ in Birmingham by constructing a very wealthy, multicultural Shakespeare library for all residents of the town.