The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0031  Monday, 28 January 2013

From:        British Graduate Shakespeare C <britgrad@yahoo.com>

Date:         January 28, 2013 4:03:10 AM EST

Subject:     BritGrad 2013 Conference Registration

Dear All,

Registration is now open for the Fifteenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, June 6-8 2013. We welcome abstracts from graduate students on any topic in the field of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies. Undergraduate students in their final two years of study are also invited to attend the conference as auditors. 

BritGrad is run by students for students, and it provides a friendly and stimulating academic forum in which graduate students from all over the world can present their research and meet together in an active centre of Shakespeare scholarship. The setting for this exciting conference is the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute, in the heart of Shakespeare’s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. This provides a uniquely located campus base from which to visit the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Birthplace and historical properties, and the specialised research libraries of the Shakespeare Institute and the Shakespeare Centre archives. 

This year’s conference will feature talks by Martin Wiggins (The Shakespeare Institute) and Catherine Richardson (University of Kent), Jonathan Slinger (Royal Shakespeare Company), and Mairi Macdonald (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust), among other plenary speakers. Delegates also have the opportunity to attend the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamlet, directed by David Farr and starring Jonathan Slinger, at a group-booking price on the 6 June evening. Lunch will be provided on each day, and there will also be a dance and a drinks reception for the delegates. 

We invite abstracts of approximately 200 words for papers twenty minutes in length (3,000 words or less) on subjects relating to Shakespeare and/or Renaissance studies. Delegates wishing to give papers must register by Friday 25 April; auditors must register by Thursday 23 May. 

Online registration is now open here:  http://britgrad.wordpress.com/registration . 

A copy of the registration form is also attached to this email, and is downloadable as well from  http://britgrad.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/britgrad-registration-2013.pdf . 

Please see the attached Call for Papers for further information. A printable poster is also attached, for university departmental contacts to display at their institutions. Due to the growing success of this annual conference, we strongly encourage early registration to ensure a place on the conference programme.

We look forward to seeing you at another successful conference.

All the best,

The BritGrad Committee 

The Fifteenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference

6-8 June 2013

The Shakespeare Institute

Mason Croft, Church Street

Stratford-upon-Avon WARKS

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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0034  Wednesday, 30 January 2013

From:        Walter Cannon <CannonW@central.edu>

Date:         January 29, 2013 9:14:30 PM EST

Subject:     Book Notice: Who Hears in Shakespeare?

Laury Magnus and I have recently published Who Hears in Shakespeare? Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen. Our publisher, Roman and Littlefield, is making it available to SHAKSPER subscribers at a discount price, available at the Rowman and Littlefield website listed below.

Just as a very small biographical note, Michael Shurgot, Yu Jim Ko, and I were all in the very first NEH summer seminar that Ralph Cohen offered at James Madison. And Laury was in the next one, if my sequence is right. It might be interesting (to Ralph for sure) to tally the number of books that have been inspired by things that Ralph put in motion—we have dedicated our volume to him.

Who Hears in Shakespeare? Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen. 

Edited by Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon. 

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.

This volume, examining the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators, has been prompted by recent explorations of the auditory dimension of early modern drama by scholars such as Andrew Gurr, Bruce Smith, and James Hirsh. To look at the acoustic world of the plays involves a real paradigm shift that changes how we understand virtually everything about Shakespeare’s plays: from the architecture of the buildings, to playing spaces, to blocking, and to larger interpretative issues, including our understanding of character based on players’ responses to what they hear, mishear, or refuse to hear. Who Hears in Shakespeare? Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen is comprised of three sections on Shakespeare’s texts and performance history: “The Poetics of Hearing and the Early Modern Stage”; “Metahearing: Hearing, Knowing, and Audiences, Onstage and Off”; and a final section entitled “Transhearing: Hearing, Whispering, Overhearing, and Eavesdropping in Film and other Media.”

Chapters by noted scholars explore the complex reactions and interactions of onstage and offstage audiences and show how Shakespearean stagecraft, actualized both on stage and/or adapted on screen, revolves around various situations and conventions of hearing, such as soliloquies, asides, eavesdropping, overhearing, and stage whispers. In short, Who Hears in Shakespeare? enunciates Shakespeare’s nuanced, powerful stagecraft of hearing. The volume ends with Stephen Booth’s Afterword, a meditation on hearing in Shakespeare that returns us to consider Shakespearean “audiences” and their responses to what they hear—or don’t hear—in Shakespeare’s plays.

Contributors:

David Bevington 

Stephen Booth

Anthony Burton

Walter Cannon

Gayle Gaskill

Andrew Gurr

James Hirsh

Jennifer Holl

Bernice W. Kliman

Laury Magnus

Erin Minear

Nova Myhill

Phillipa Sheppard

Kathleen Kalpin Smith

About the Editors:

Laury Magnus is Professor of Humanities at the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY.

Walter W. Cannon is Professor of English at Central College in Pella, Iowa.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012

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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0042  Monday, 4 February 2013

From:        Sarah Enloe <sarahe@americanshakespearecenter.com>

Date:         Friday, February 1, 2013 3:15 PM

Subject:     CFP 2013 Blackfriars Conference

Seventh Blackfriars Conference: 23 - 27 October 2013

On odd numbered years since the first October the Blackfriars Playhouse opened, scholars from around the world have gathered in Staunton, during the height of the Shenandoah Valley’s famed Fall colors, to hear lectures, see plays, and learn about early modern theatre. In 2013, the American Shakespeare Center’s Education and Research Department will once again host Shakespeareans, scholars and practitioners alike, to explore Shakespeare in the study and Shakespeare on the stage and to find ways that these two worlds – sometime in collision – can collaborate. Past conferences have included such notable scholars as Andrew Gurr, the “godfather” of the Blackfriars Playhouse, Tiffany Stern, Russ McDonald, Gary Taylor, Stephen Greenblatt, Roz Knutson, Tina Packer, Scott Kaiser, Stephen Booth, George T. Wright, and many more in five days full of activities. 
 

Except for banquets, all events – papers, plays, workshops, – take place in the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre, the Blackfriars Playhouse. This conference distinguishes itself from saner conferences in a variety of other ways. First, to model the kind of collaboration we think possible we encourage presenters to feature actors as partners in the demonstration of their theses. For instance, in 2009, Gary Taylor’s keynote presentation “Lyrical Middleton” featured ASC actors singing and dancing to the songs in Middleton’s plays. Second, we limit each paper session to six short papers (10 minutes for solo presentations, 13 minutes for presentations with actors). Third, we enforce this rule by ursine fiat – a bear chases from the stage those speakers who go over their allotted time.  

Delegates also attend all of the plays in the ASC 2013 Fall Season – Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well that Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, and Bob Carlton’s Return to the Forbidden Planet, – and, for the past several conferences, bonus plays written by their colleagues and performed by actors in the Mary Baldwin College MFA in Shakespeare in Performance program. The spirit of fun that imbues the conference manifests itself in the annual Truancy Award, for the sensible conferee who – visiting the Shenandoah Valley at the height of Fall – has the good sense to miss the most sessions.

The 2013 gathering will honor George Walton Williams IV and will include keynote addresses from Russ McDonald, Ann Thompson, Peter Holland, and Abigail Rokison.

ASC Education and Research extends this call for papers on any matters to do with the performance of early modern drama (historical, architectural, political, dramatical, sartorial, medical, linguistical, comical, pastoral) to all interested parties for our biennial conference to be held at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia, 23-27 October  2013. The deadline to submit your abstract is 31 May 2013.

Submit an Abstract for consideration; Deadline: May 31st, 2013.

or, for more information, please email Sarah Enloe, Director of Education, at sarahe@americanshakespearecenter.com.

All best,

Sarah Enloe

American Shakespeare Center

Director of Education

The American Shakespeare Center recovers the joy and accessibility of Shakespeare’s theatre, language, and humanity by exploring the English Renaissance stage and its practices through performance and education.

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0044  Tuesday, 5 February 2013

From:        Horacio Sierra <hsierra@bowiestate.edu>

Date:         February 5, 2013 9:43:12 AM EST

Subject:     Book Announcement

Hello Everyone,

I am pleased to announce the publication of my edited collection, New Readings of the Merchant of Venice, from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 1443841765.

The last decade has witnessed a spate of high-profile presentations of The Merchant of Venice: the 2004 Michael Radford film, 2010’s New York City “Shakespeare in the Park” production, as well as the play’s Tony Award-nominated 2010-11 Broadway run. Likewise, new scholarly works such as Kenneth Gross’s Shylock is Shakespeare (2006) and Janet Adelman’s Blood Relations (2008) have offered poignant insights into this play. Why has this drama garnered so much attention of late? What else can we learn from this contentious comedy? How else can we read the drama’s characters? Where do studies of The Merchant of Venice go from here?

This collection offers readers sundry answers to these questions by showcasing a sampling of ways this culturally arresting play can be read and interpreted. The strength of this monograph lies in the disparate approaches its contributors offer – from a feminist view of Portia and Nerissa’s friendship to psychoanalytic readings of allegories between the play and Shakespeare’s Pericles to a reading of a Manga comic book version of The Merchant of Venice. Each essay is supported by a strong basis in traditional close reading practices. Our collection of scholars then buttresses such work with the theoretical or pedagogical frameworks that reflect their area of expertise. This collection offers readers different critical lenses through which to approach the primary text.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Readings-Merchant-Venice-Horacio-Sierra/dp/1443841765/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359464098&sr=1-1&keywords=new+reading+of+the+merchant+of+venice

Cambridge Scholars Publishing link: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/New-Readings-of-The-Merchant-of-Venice1-4438-4176-5.htm

Horacio Sierra

Assistant Professor of English

Bowie State University

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0045  Tuesday, 5 February 2013

From:        Actors From The London Stage <aftls@aftls.pmailus.com>

Date:         February 5, 2013 1:22:21 PM EST

Subject:     Actors From The London Stage - Elsinore and Beyond!

Hamlet Tour Off to a Rousing Start!

Notre Dame –

Hamlet will be performed at the historic Washington Hall on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, February 13 & 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM. These performances are part of a national tour for this production that began last week at Texas A & M University, continues this week at Valparaiso University, and ends at Vanderbilt University. A special homecoming performance will be presented at the Fortune Theatre once the actors return to London.

Members of the ensemble include tour veteran Terry Wilton (Polonius, Marcellus, 1st Gravedigger, Priest, Osric), Charles Armstrong (Claudius, Ghost, 1st Player, Francisco, Reynaldo), Andrew Fallaize (Horatio, Laertes, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, 3rd Player), Shuna Snow (Gertrude, Ophelia, 2nd Player, Sailor) and Pete Ashmore (Hamlet, Bernardo, Fortinbras).

Performances are Wednesday, February 13, and Thursday, February 14, 2013. All performances are at 7:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time. Washington Hall is located on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Tickets may be purchased at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center ticket office, by phone at 574-631-2800, or online at shakespeare.nd.edu. 

SonnetFest 2013 to be live-streamed on the web!

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the 4^th annual SonnetFest – a community-wide public reading of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets as interpreted by members of the Notre Dame and Michiana communities. The event will be live-streamed online for the first time this year at www.shakespeare.nd.edu. “Over the past three years the event has proven to be so popular that we are continuing our annual tradition where faculty, staff, students and members of our community can gather together and bring Shakespeare’s beautiful ruminations on love to life,” according to Scott Jackson, Executive Director of Shakespeare of Notre Dame.

All 154 of William Shakespeare’s sonnets will be read sequentially in the Great Hall of O’Shaughnessy Hall on the campus of the University of Notre Dame from 11 am- 3 pm Eastern Time on Thursday, February 14, 2013.

Hamlet returns to the Fortune!

Actors From The London Stage presents

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Monday, March 11th at 7:30

Fortune Theatre

Russell St, Covent Garden, London WC2B 5HH

Tube - Covent Garden

Reservations can be made by emailing: aftlsUK@gmail.com

Please email to reserve tickets stating: Your name, Your email address, Number of tickets required, Your contact number.

Confirmation of your booking will be emailed to you, plus method of payment.

Please note that tickets can not be bought in advance via the Fortune Theare box office.

All roles played by Charles Armstrong, Pete Ashmore, Andrew Fallaize, Shuna Snow, Terry Wilton

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0049  Thursday, 7 February 2013

From:        Gabriel Egan <gegan@dmu.ac.uk>

Date:         February 7, 2013 7:54:19 AM EST

Subject:     KiSS Conference 

This is to announce the Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS).  It’s a new seminar series open to the public as well as staff and students. The seminars will be held at the Rose Theatre, in Kingston-upon-Thames, south-west London, from 5.30 to 7pm on the following dates:

* Thursday 7 February 2013: Dominique Goy-Blanquet (University of Picardy; current President of the Shakespeare Association of France): ‘Henry VIII and The Maid’s Wedding: Ghostly Revels’

* Wednesday 20 February 2013: Tobias Doring (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich; current President of the German Shakespeare Association): ‘Shakespeare’s Afterlife: Contemporary German poetry and the problem of poetic creativity’

* Thursday 7 March 2013: Ewan Fernie (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham): ‘Garrick and the German Enlightenment’

* Wednesday 20 March 2013: Coppelia Kahn (Brown University): ‘Reading the Face in “Hamlet”’

* Thursday 11 April 2013: David Skilton (Cardiff University): ‘The Novelist’s Voice: Shakespearean Intertext in Thackeray and Trollope’

Gabriel Egan

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0054  Monday, 11 February 2013

From:        Michael Boecherer <boechem@sunysuffolk.edu>

Date:         February 11, 2013 9:57:52 AM EST

Subject:     CFP: This Rough Magic

This Rough Magic (www.thisroughmagic.org) is a journal dedicated to the art of teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature. We are seeking academic, teachable articles that focus on, but are not limited to, the following categories:

• Authorship
• Genre Issues
• Narrative Structure
• Poetry
• Drama
• Epic
• Nation/Empire/Class
• Economics
• History
• Religion 
• Superstition
• Philosophy and Rhetoric
• Race/Ethnicity
• Multi-Culturalism
• Gender
• Sexuality 
• Art

We also seek short essays that encourage faculty to try overlooked, non-traditional texts inside the classroom and book reviews. Submission deadline for our Summer 2013 issue is currently 5/21/13.

For more information, please visit our website www.thisroughmagic.org or contact Michael Boecherer: boechem@sunysuffolk.edu

Faculty and Graduate Students are encouraged to submit.

This Rough Magic’s editorial board members are affiliated with the following academic institutions and organizations:

• The American Shakespeare Center
• Bridgewater State University
• California State University, San Bernardino
• The Catholic University of America
• Fitchburg State University
• Newman University
• State University of New York - Stony Brook
• Suffolk County Community College
• University of Connecticut
• Vassar College

Michael Boecherer

Assistant Professor of English

Suffolk County Community College

www.thisroughmagic.org

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0058  Tuesday, 12 February 2013

From:       Jean-Christophe Mayer <Jean-Christophe.Mayer@univ-montp3.fr>

Date:        February 12, 2013 6:33:19 AM EST

Subject:    Announcement: European Shakespeare Research Association Congress 

European Shakespeare Research Association Congress 

Shakespeare & Myth 

hosted by the Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, 

l'âge Classique et les Lumières (IRCL) 

in partnership with the Printemps des Comédiens (Montpellier) 

under the auspices of the Société Française Shakespeare 

MONTPELLIER (France) 

Wednesday 26–Saturday 29 June 2013 

Agenda and deadlines

3 March 2013: Deadline for EARLY registration

1 April 2013: Deadline for sending contributions to seminar leaders

3 June 2013: Deadline for pre-registration

Programme and venues

Discover ESRA 2013 in Montpellier: 12 plenary speakers, 14 seminars, a theatre workshop, Claus Peyman’s Richard II for the Berliner Ensemble, a “Shakespeare under the stars” Film Marathon, and more . . . 

Download the preliminary programme and details of venues here: <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/66244838/esra2013_programme_eng.pdf>

Registration and funding

Early registration: 70 euros (35 euros for accompanying persons and/or members of the Société Française Shakespeare: http://www.societefrancaiseshakespeare.org/)

Regular registration: 80 euros (40 euros for accompanying persons and/or members of the Société Française Shakespeare: http://www.societefrancaiseshakespeare.org/).

Registration fees include conference pack, entrance to all lectures and seminars, coffee breaks, publishers’ area, free Wifi zone.

Registration fees do not include the following:

-       opening dinner (28 euros),

-       open-air buffet and film marathon “Shakespeare under the stars” (22 euros)

-       theatre tickets (11 euros)

To register online

http://dr13.azur-colloque.cnrs.fr/

Congress registration => click on French or English flag => choose ESRA 2013 in the list of conferences. Click on pre-registration and enter requested details (*) plus other relevant details. For “Tarification” (ie fees): choose “Academic”, “Accompanying Person” or “Member SFS” (if a member of the Société Française Shakespeare).

Allow a few days for us to check any necessary details.

Once your pre-registration has been accepted, you will receive confirmation to proceed to online registration and payment by credit card.

See contact provided below if you have any difficulties.

Duration of the conference

Participants will be able to sign in and collect their packs on Wednesday 26 June 2013 from 10 am to 4pm.

The conference will open on Wednesday 26 June 2013 at 2pm and close on Saturday 29 June at 5.30pm. A cultural event may be proposed on Saturday evening.

Location

The conference venues are located in the city centre, in University premises (Saint-Charles Campus) on place Albert 1er and just off boulevard Henri IV (Faculté de médecine), 400 yards away (easy access by tram and on foot). Please note that the opening afternoon and evening will be in a third, different venue (see maps at the end of the programme).

Accommodation

Montpellier offers hotels in all categories. Delegates are invited to make their own arrangements. Information about accommodation may be accessed at:

http://www.ot-montpellier.fr/hotels

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g187153-Montpellier_Herault_Languedoc_Roussillon-Vacations.html

http://www.booking.com/city/fr/montpellier.en.html

http://hotelmontpellierpascher.fr/

http://fr.hotels.com/de506438/hotels-montpellier-france/

Please note: Conference delegates who have finalised their registration and are contemplating to book at the 4-star hotel Jardin des sens (Relais et Châteaux) may enjoy a discount on some rooms. Please contact our conference manager directly for details.

Contact:

Conference Manager: Vanessa Kuhner-Blaha

vanessa.kuhner-blaha@univ-montp3.fr

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0063  Thursday, 14 February 2013

From:        Abigail Rokison <a.rokison@bham.ac.uk>

Date:         February 14, 2013 9:39:39 AM EST

Subject:     Call for Journal Articles

Call For Journal Articles For Special Edition Of Shakespeare

We invite submission of journal articles of between 5 and 10,000 words for a special edition of Shakespeare journal (Routledge) entitled ‘Shakespeare, performance and authenticity’.

Please send expressions of interest and abstracts to Abigail Rokison – a.rokison@bham.ac.uk by March 30^th 2013.

The deadline for finished articles will be August 2013 for publication in March 2014.

Thank you,

Abigail Rokison

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0068  Friday, 15 February 2013

From:        Gabriel Egan <gegan@dmu.ac.uk>

Date:         February 15, 2013 11:06:52 AM EST

Subject:     PhD Studentship at DMU 

___________

Adapting the Early Modern

School of Humanities, Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester

STARTING OCTOBER 2013

A PhD research studentship covering stipend and tuition fee costs is offered for a project that combines early modern literary or theatrical research with recent work on cultural adaptation. Working within the School’s Centre for Textual Studies and Centre for Adaptations, the student could explore such areas as how the editing of Shakespeare’s works necessarily adapts them for new readers, how Renaissance theatre is represented in films—from the Globe in Laurence Olivier’s Henry V (1944) to the Curtain in John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love (1998)--or how film portrayals of early modern dramatists such as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and John Webster engage with early modern, modern or postmodern notions of creativity. There is plenty of scope for the project to explore broader concerns of early modern authorship, publication and adaptation.

The Centre for Textual Studies and the Centre for Adaptations are integral to the research culture of the School of Humanities and while consisting largely of colleagues working in the subject area of English, staff also include scholars in Media, Film Studies, Drama and Technology. The two centres are internationally renowned and united by their concern with what happens to literary writing after it moves beyond the control of the originating author. Both centres have an established tradition of interdisciplinary research with externally funded international collaborations.

They are home to approximately 20 research students working on such topics as the Shakespearean star actor on film, Othello on screen, adapting Shakespeare for young children, printing and editing in the early modern period, Shakespeare’s fairy stories, the early modern book trade, and the histories and repertories of acting companies. The successful candidate for this studentship will become part of a highly active community of career-young scholars working on similar projects within a vibrant research culture. Research in the subject area of English at De Montfort University was ranked joint-ninth with English at Cambridge University in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

For a more detailed description of the studentship project please visit our web site or contact Prof Gabriel Egan on +44 (0)116 25 77158 or email gegan@dmu.ac.uk

This research opportunity builds on our excellent past achievements and, looking forward to REF2014 and beyond, it will develop the university’s research capacity into new and evolving areas of study, enhancing DMU’s national and international research partnerships.

Applications are invited from UK or EU students with a good first degree (First, 2:1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject. Doctoral scholarships are available for up to three years full-time study starting October 2013 and provide a bursary of 13,770 GBP/pa in addition to university tuition fees.

To receive an application pack, please contact the Graduate School Office via email at researchstudents@dmu.ac.uk Completed applications should be returned together with two supporting references.

Please quote ref:  DMU Research Scholarships 2013

CLOSING DATE:  Friday 15th March 2013

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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0071  Monday, 18 February 2013

From:        Sujata Iyengar <iyengar@uga.edu>

Date:         February 15, 2013 5:46:28 PM EST

Subject:     Launch: Issue 7.2. of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation

The editors of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation are delighted to announce the launch of issue 7.2, featuring a lavishly-illustrated essay by Alfredo Modenessi on Indian and “Indian” Othellos, Stephannie Gearhart’s analysis of Lear’s Daughters, Pamela Swanigan’s multimedia exposition on the music of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, as well as a special cluster on Shakespeare and African American Poetics (in association with the Langston Hughes Review and one on Punchdrunk Theatre’s cult New York Haunted House/Macbeth installation, Sleep No More. 

Please visit www.borrowers.uga.edu for the current Table of Contents.

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0072  Monday, 18 February 2013

From:        John F Andrews <shakesguild@msn.com>

Date:         Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:16 PM

Subject:     Susannah Carson on ‘Living with Shakespeare’

Monday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m.    

National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South

No Charge, but Reservations Advised

“There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.” So asserts Harold Bloom in his foreword to LIVING WITH SHAKESPEARE, a new anthology by SUSANNAH CARSON. A Yale-educated writer who now lives in London, Ms. Carson has compiled observations and personal reminiscences by more than three dozen luminaries, among them authors Isabel Allende, Margaret Drabble, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jane Smiley, filmmakers Ralph Fiennes and Julie Taymor, and actors F. Murray Abraham, Brian Cox, James Earl Jones, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Sher, and Harriet Walter. What these and other contributors share is a conviction that “we live in Shakespeare’s world,” an environment that has been “fine-tuned for us” by a poet whose vision is so potent “that it’s difficult to conceive who we would be” if he’d never existed. Published in time to mark the 449th celebration of Shakespeare’s birth, Ms. Carson’s book will be on display, and she’ll be happy to inscribe copies for those who wish to purchase them.

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0079  Thursday, 21 February 2013

From:        Sofia Novello <snovello@britishinstitute.it>

Date:         February 21, 2013 7:23:35 AM EST

Subject:     Proceedings of the Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Graduate Conference 2009-2011

The British Institute Publishes Online The First Volume of the Proceedings of the Conference “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries” 2009-2011

The British Institute of Florence is pleased to announce the online publication of the first volume of Proceedings of the “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries” Graduate Conference, comprising papers chosen from the three conferences organised by the Institute in the period 2009-2011.

The Shakespeare Graduate Conferences – with the participation of scholars such as Prof. Emerito Alessandro Serpieri, Prof. Fernando Cioni, Prof.ssa Claudia Corti and Prof.ssa Paola Pugliatti of Florence University, of Prof. Keir Elam of Bologna University, and Prof.ssa Carla Dente of Pisa University, founding member of the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies – were devised to allow young doctoral candidates at Italian universities, as well as those who have recently taken their doctorate, an opportunity to present their research to peers and professors.

The volume gathers together papers in English and Italian that in their variety of content and methodology reflect the current lively interest in Shakespearean studies in Italy: some concentrate on individual works by the great playwright while others address more general themes relating to the historico-cultural period.

Proceedings of the “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries” Graduate Conference is now available in pdf format on the Institute’s website at www.britishinstitute.it/en/library/harold-acton-library.asp.

The publication of the proceedings will be announced at the Cultural Programme on Wednesday 17 April 2013 and at the opening session of the Fifth edition of the Shakespeare Graduate Conference on Thursday 18 April 2013, during Shakespeare Week 2013.

For further information, please contact Sofia Novello, snovello@britishinstitute.it. 

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0081  Friday, 22 February 2013

From:        Michael Best <mbest1@uvic.ca>

Date:         Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:28 PM

Subject:     ISE Newsletter—The Shakespeare Herald

View The Shakespeare Herald in Browser: 

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The Shakespeare Herald

February 2013

Welcome to this first issue of The Shakespeare Herald, the newsletter of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE). In this issue we trumpet some important upgrades to the site, the completion of some of our individual plays online, now fully edited by Shakespeare scholars, our plunge into the increasingly populated area of social networking, and ways we are creating partnerships with theaters as a way of enhancing our database of Shakespeare in performance.

I contribute a short piece on magic in Shakespeare, and the magic of the Web. Our team members contribute information about recent updates, and the use of ISE texts in the theater. 

We are committed to the concept of open access for academic work of the highest quality, but are offering libraries an opportunity to provide their clients with an enhanced version of the site when they become Friends of the ISE. We continue our tradition of introducing Shakespeare on stage and (digital) page in new and intuitive formats. We bring fully-edited, peer-reviewed works to a computer—or mobile device—near you. One major update to the site is a version optimized for smart phones—something that will be appreciated by all those students we dodge as they walk across campus with eyes glued on the small screens they hold.

On whatever size screen you are viewing this newsletter, please check out the full articles online.

• Welcome!
• Magic webs: a word from the Coordinating Editor.
• The launch of our mobile-optimized site.
• A new feature available for Friends of the ISE.
• New editions of plays published online and by Broadview Press.
• Social networking and the ISE — and some Shakespeare trivia.
• The ISE and Shakespeare in performance.
• Future plans.

We look forward to hearing from you. Please email queries to iseadmin@uvic.ca.

All good wishes,

Michael Best

President and Coordinating Editor

Department of English, University of Victoria, BC

The ISE is made possible by generous support from the University of Victoria, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and by libraries that have become Friends of the ISE. 

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0086  Monday, 25 February 2013

From:        Matt Nickerson <nickerson@suu.edu>

Date:         February 25, 2013 12:42:24 PM EST

Subject:     Call For Papers - Wooden O Symposium, August 12-14, 2013

Call For Papers—Wooden O Symposium, August 12-14, 2013

The 2013 Wooden O Symposium will be held on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, August 12-14. The Wooden O Symposium, sponsored by the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Southern Utah University and the Gerald Sherratt Library is a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed conference focusing on the text and performance of Shakespeare's plays. Scholars attending the conference will have the unique opportunity of immersing themselves in research, text, and performance in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the western U.S.

The Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic related to Shakespeare and early modern drama. The symposium encourages papers and panels that relate to the Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2013 summer season: King John, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Tempest. 

Selected papers from the symposium are published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Wooden O.

Deadline for proposals is May 1, 2013. Proposals may be submitted via post or email.  Panel chairs and individual presenters will be informed of acceptance no later than May 15. 

250-word abstracts or session proposals (including individual abstracts) should include the following: name, affiliated institution, academic rank (faculty, graduate student, undergraduate student, aficionado,) and contact information including email.

Wooden O Symposium

c/o Utah Shakespeare Festival

351 W. University Blvd. 

Cedar City, UT 84720     

woodeno@suu.edu  

http://www.bard.org/woodeno

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0090  Tuesday, 26 February 2013

From:        Actors From The London Stage <aftls@aftls.pmailus.com>

Date:         February 26, 2013 2:04:50 PM EST

Subject:     Don’t Miss Nicholas Hytner!

Sir Nicholas Hytner to Deliver Second Annual London Shakespeare Lecture in Honor of Professor Stanley Wells, C.B.E. 

The University of Notre Dame, The Shakespeare Institute and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust present “Stand and Unfold Yourself” – How to do Shakespeare by Sir Nicholas Hytner, Artistic Director of the National Theatre. This is the second public lecture about Shakespeare in a series named in honor of former Shakespeare Institute director Professor Stanley Wells, C.B.E. The lecture will take place at Trafalgar Hall, Notre Dame London on March 5, 2013 at 6 pm GMT (1 pm ET) and will be live-streamed at: http://shakespeare.nd.edu/events/stanley-wells-lecture/

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0094  Friday, 8 March 2013

From:        Duncan Salkeld <D.Salkeld@chi.ac.uk>

Date:         March 8, 2013 5:32:25 AM EST

Subject:     Conference Notice: Popes and the Papacy

Dear All,

An exciting interdisciplinary two-day conference will be held at Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton, UK on 24-26 June 2013 on ‘Popes and the Papacy in Early Modern English Culture’.

The conference scope is very broad and will cover diverse aspects of early modern culture, including anti-Catholicism, literary and pictorial representations of the papacy, recusant culture, diplomacy and correspondence, art and architecture, religious controversy, and moral improprieties. 

The deadline for short paper proposals is 15 March, but this may be extended. Short paper proposals are still welcome.

Keynote speakers are: Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University), Susannah Monta (University of Notre Dame) and Alison Shell (UCL).

Here’s a link to the conference notice:http://popesandthepapacy.wordpress.com/

And a link to the Call For Papers: http://popesandthepapacy.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/

All the best

Duncan Salkeld

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0095  Friday, 8 March 2013

From:        Red Bull Theater <news@redbulltheater.com>

Date:         March 1, 2013 11:26:16 AM EST

Subject:     The Inner Life of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 

Monday March 25, 7:30pm 

A Talk

Shakespeare and The Sonnets

With

John Wolfson

Curator of Rare Books, Globe Theatre

and

Randy Harrison and Byron Jennings

The Inner Life of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

John Wolfson describes how the sonnets related to Shakespeare’s personal life and how scholars have subsequently interpreted and mis-interpreted them. A unique and pithy evening of witty, insightful scholarship and passionate acting.

Tickets www.redbulltheater.com

212.352.3101

Location

Lucille Lortel Theater 

121 Christopher Street 

Corner of Perry & Hudson

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0098  Tuesday, 12 March 2013

From:        Paul Edmondson <Paul.Edmondson@shakespeare.org.uk>

Date:         Sunday, March 10, 2013 12:58 PM

Subject:     Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Publication and Webinar

[Editor’s Note: I have adapted the information below from various e-mails I have received from Paul Edmondson. –Hardy]

The Cambridge University Press will launch Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust at this year’s celebration of Shakespeare’s Birthday in Stratford and at The Shakespeare Centre.

The book will also form the basis of an event at this year’s Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival, a webinar towards the end of April sponsored by C.U.P. (and hosted by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust), and a podcast to be made with the University of Warwick in time for Shakespeare’s Birthday. 

You might like to let your colleagues, students, friends, and contacts know about a webinar, ‘Proving Shakespeare’, we’re hosting about Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy on Friday 26 April at 6.30 pm (British Time). You can register for it free of charge via this link:

I’ll be chairing a discussion for an hour with Stanley Wells and we are delighted to be joined by our special guest, Ros Barber, author of The Marlowe Papers: A Novel in Verse. If you sign up you’ll be able to listen to webinar live and submit questions during the discussion. You can sign up by clicking here.

http://bloggingshakespeare.com/shakespeare-beyond-doubt

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy

Paperback (ISBN-13: 9781107603288)

Hardback (ISBN:9781107017597)

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare, and why should we care? 

• A collection of essays by major authorities in the field discuss the authorship debate surrounding Shakespeare’s work 
• Provides a wide range of discussions of all significant aspects of the topic in a readable and engaging style 
• Offers a comprehensive and grounded scholarly exploration of this hotly debated field

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy is organized in three sections. The first is ‘Sceptics’. There you will find essays on the most popular alternative nominees for the authorship, namely Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. These have been produced by world experts on those three subjects (Alan Stewart, Charles Nicholl, and Alan Nelson), all of whom set out authoritatively to demonstrate how none of those nominees could have written, or indeed were capable of having written, the works of Shakespeare. The ‘unreadable’ work of Delia Bacon is re-appraised by Graham Holderness and Matt Kubus has contributed a piece about the many other ‘unusual suspects’ who have been nominated over the years.

Section two, ‘Shakespeare as Author’, presents the evidence for Shakespeare and includes an essay which considers how we construct early modern biographies by Andrew Hadfield and an overview of all the allusions to Shakespeare up to 1642 by Stanley Wells. John Jowett shows how we know Shakespeare collaborated (thereby making a nonsense of any ‘cover-up’ story), and Mac Jackson shows what we can learn from stylometric tests for different authorial hands. James Mardock and Eric Rasmussen look at what the textual evidence of the printed works tells us about their author, and Dave Kathman finds Warwickshire writ large across Shakespeare’s work. Carol Rutter demonstrates that the whole of Shakespeare was written by someone who attended grammar school but who did not need to have attended university, and Barbara Everett shows how absurd it is to read the works as truthful windows onto Shakespeare’s own life.

The third and final section, ‘A Cultural Phenomenon: Did Shakespeare Write Shakespeare?’, includes articles by Kate McLuskie on conspiracy theories, by Andrew Murphy on the clash between professional academics and amateurs with regard to Delia Bacon, and by Paul Franssen on how the authorship discussion has been treated in works of fiction. Stuart Hampton-Reeves critiques the anti-Shakespearian ‘Declaration of Reasonable Doubt’ and Douglas Lanier critiques the film Anonymous. My contribution is a piece about the so-called ‘Shakespeare Establishment’ and the authorship discussion. 

The volume closes with an ‘Afterword’ by James Shapiro and ‘A Selected Reading List’ by Hardy Cook.

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0099  Tuesday, 12 March 2013

From:        Paul Werstine <werstine@uwo.ca>

Date:         March 11, 2013 10:47:30 AM EDT

Subject:     A New Variorum Edition Notice

A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare

The series is seeking an editor to bring to completion the volume on The Two Gentlemen of Verona that was begun by the late Trevor Howard-Hill.

The publisher of this series is the Modern Language Association of America. Title pages and prefaces scrupulously record the contributions of all who work on the volumes. Editorial principles are available at www.mla.org/shakespeare_varpdf.  Please contact Paul Werstine, co-general editor, at werstine@uwo.ca. The latest published volumes in the series are The Winter’s Tale, edited by Robert Kean Turner and Virginia Westling Haas (2005), and The Comedy of Errors, edited by Standish Henning (2011). King Lear, edited by Richard Knowles, is at press.