Announcements
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.105 Wednesday, 19 July 2023
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: July 15 at 8:55 AM EDT
Subject: Heidi Craig: Drama during the English Civil Wars
Dear all,
This is a talk with Heidi Craig of the University of Toronto about her recent book on drama during the English Civil War period:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKxXluXl7EA
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.101 Saturday, 8 July 2023
From: Mike Jensen <
Date: July 8 at 12:26 PM EDT
Subject: Another Open Source Article
Another open-source review from the new issue of Shakespeare Newsletter, this on The Red Bull Theater’s Arden of Faversham.
https://shakespearenewsletter.com/arden-of-faversham-review/
All the best,
Mike Jensen
Contributing Editor, Shakespeare Newsletter
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.099 Wednesday, 5 July 2023
From: Mike Jensen <
Date: July 5 at 12:04 PM EDT
Subject: Shakespeare Newsletter Open-Source Review
I recently told you that the new issue of SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER 71.2 has been published and is available to subscribers. There are some open-source articles including Grace Tiffany’s always witty “Review of Periodicals.” It may be accessed here.
All the best,
Mike Jensen
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.098 Saturday, 1 July 2023
From: Michele Marrapodi <
Date: July 1 at 5:39 AM EDT
Subject: New books and forthcoming titles in the AIRS Series - Call for Book Chapters on Ariosto in Shakespeare’s England
Dear Colleagues,
Please visit the “Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies” (Routledge) website and have a look at the new entries and upcoming titles:
https://www.routledge.com/Anglo-Italian-Renaissance-Studies/book-series/AIRS
Call for Book Chapters
Articles are solicited for a new collection of essays on Ariosto in Shakespeare’s England to be edited by Stefano Jossa and Michele Marrapodi.
Please send a one-page abstract by December 2023:
Fables of Estrangement: Themes and Variations from Ariosto in Shakespeare’s England
Edited by Stefano Jossa and Michele Marrapodi
(Abstract)
‘Ariosto was far and away the most popular Italian poet with the Elizabethans’, Mary Augusta Scott, the pioneer of Anglo-Italian studies, stated in 1896. Despite this, a complete investigation into Ariosto’s presence in early modern England has yet to be undertaken. A few books have recently and authoritatively addressed the topic and even more work needs to be done. Selene Scarsi’s monograph (2016) focuses mostly on women and gender through a close examination of Elizabethan translations from Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso’s poems, while Everson-Hiscock-Jossa’s collection (2019) spans from the Renaissance to the contemporary age. Michele Marrapodi’s various edited volumes on Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges (1998, 2007, 2014) have touched mostly upon Ariosto’s comedies and his more recent Research Companion (2019), includes a chapter by Scarsi dedicated to the differing remakes of Ginevra and Ariodante story in sixteenth-century England.
Ariosto’s presence in Elizabethan culture is often related to the two supreme masterpieces by Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, first published (though in a version limited to books I-III) in 1590, highly indebted to Ariosto’s influence, and John Harington, his own translation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, published 1591. The two works, ideal examples of appropriation and translation, offer us a good pathway for understanding Ariosto’s reception in the British Isles, between remake and domestication. And yet they were not unique, but surrounded by a number of translations, allusions, rewritings, and variations of individual tales, beginning with Peter Beverley’s Historie of Ariodanto and Ieneura, printed in 1566, going through Robert Tofte’s Two Tales translated out from Ariosto (1597) and reaching as far as Gervase Markham’s Rodomonths Infernall or the Diuell Conquered, printed in 1607. Passages from the poem were set to music, or constituted the basis for theatrical performances, such as Greene’s popular stage adaptation The Historie of Orlando Furioso (1592), not to mention Shakespeare’s comedies, which are fully imbued with Italian memories, with a particular attention to Ariosto’s poem in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Later, John Florio includes many of Ariosto’s words in his Queen Anne’s Dictionary, building a canon of Italian classics for British italophile readers in the seventeenth century, and John Milton engages in-depth with Ariosto and Tasso’s legacy in his poem Paradise Lost.
There is not only the Orlando Furioso, though. The influence of Ariosto on early modern England has gone far beyond his poem, including his lyrics and comedies, which penetrated into English culture through a variety of appropriations, adaptations, and translations.
The present volume aims to emphasize issues of translation, domestication, influence, reception, adaptation, and appropriation, involving a great diversity of forms and literary genres.
Best wishes,
Michele Marrapodi
Series Editor
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.097 Friday, 23 June 2023
From: Mike Jensen <
Date: June 23 at 12:28 PM EDT
Subject: Shakespeare Newsletter 71.2
Shakespeare Newsletter 71.2 has been published. Here are the contents.
Two Feature Articles:
“Lost in Translation: Cleopatra, Tamora, and the Gendered Critique of Translatio Imperii in Shakespeare’s Roman Plays” by Sue Starke
“Look with thine ears’”: The Challenges and Rewards of Audio Shakespeare, Part One by Michael P. Jensen
One Performance Review:
Domestic Tragicomedy: Arden of Faversham at Red Bull Theater by Laura Kolb
Three Book Reviews:
Kimberly Anne Coles’s Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England by Brooke Conti
Thomas Fulton’s The Book of Books by Dan Breen
Jo Eldridge Carney’s Women Talk Back to Shakespeare by Thomas G. Olsen
Accompanied by two of our regular features:
Review of Periodicals 71.2 by Grace Tiffany
Talking Books Update by Michael P. Jensen
Subscribers may access all of these articles at our website
https://shakespearenewsletter.com/newsletters/71-2/
All the best,
Mike Jensen
Contributing Editor, Shakespeare Newsletter
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.096 Friday, 23 June 2023
From: Jimmy Newlin <
Date: June 23 at 10:48 AM EDT
Subject: Book Announcement: New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Please find below the link for a new collection of essays on Shakespeare and psychoanalysis. It is the first collection of psychoanalytic essays on early modern English literature to appear in over twenty years. James W. Stone and I are the co-editors of the book, forthcoming soon from Routledge in the UK and in the USA.
These essays show how psychoanalytic theory helps us to rethink the plays’ history of performance; their treatment of gender, sexuality, and race; their view of history and trauma; and the ways in which they anticipate contemporary psychodynamic treatment. Far from simply calling for a conventional “return to Freud,” the essays collected here initiate an exciting conversation between Shakespeare studies and psychoanalysis in the hopes of radically transforming both disciplines.
New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains is currently available for pre-order. Please recommend our volume to your institution’s library. If you wish to purchase our volume, please use checkout code SMA36 on www.routledge.com for a 20% discount. (Valid until August 31, 2023).
Thank you!
Jimmy and James
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.095 Friday, 16 June 2023
From: Matteo Pangallo <
Date: June 16 at 5:21 AM EDT
Subject: CFP: Shakespeare Bulletin special issue on teaching with/through performance
Just two weeks remain to submit an abstract for our proposed special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin!
Guest editors Matteo Pangallo (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe) invite article abstracts for a proposed special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin on the use of performance in teaching Shakespeare and early modern drama in the twenty-first century. Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:
- Performance practices in the classroom
- Using performance to teach about relationships between the plays and contemporary concerns regarding equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice
- Accessibility and performance in the classroom
- Teaching about/with performance in the pandemic context
- Working with actors, theater artists, and other performers in the classroom
- Impact on teaching of post-pandemic retrenchments in the arts and culture sectors
- Teaching performance about/with technology and in an online context
- Performance on screens, big and small
- Adaptations and performance in the classroom
- Global performance in the classroom
- Teaching about text and textual choices in performance
- Teaching about/with performance history
- Evaluating student learning and performance
- Teaching performance and with performance in graduate/postgraduate contexts
- Intersections of performance theory and pedagogical theory
- Reviews of books, databases, or other resources for teaching with/through performance
Abstracts should propose articles that clearly explain and develop their topic in a way that is thoughtful, reflective, and, above all, useful for other teachers. Proposals that are only course descriptions, assignment or project instructions, or course syllabi, or that are works of scholarship that do not center on pedagogy and performance, will not be considered.
Article proposals must be submitted as a Word Document containing an abstract of 200–250 words and an author bio of 200–250 words, sent to
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.093 Sunday, 11 June 2023
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: June 11 at 7:18 AM EDT
Subject: Darren Freebury-Jones: Speaking of Shakespeare
This is a talk with Darren Freebury-Jones, Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, about his two recent books: ‘Reading Robert Greene’ and ‘Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd’. Along with providing a fresh view of two playwrights that deserve much more of our attention, both books explore new ways to understand creative collaboration among young, aspiring playwrights, particularly during Shakespeare’s early years as a dramatist in London:
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.084 Wednesday, 17 May 2023
From: Darren Freebury-Jones <
Date: May 16 at 6:12 AM EDT
Subject: What plays aren’t in the First Folio and why?
Dear SHAKSPERians,
I am very much looking forward to giving a talk for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust June Research Conversation, asking the question:
‘What plays aren’t in the First Folio and why?’
It’ll take place on Zoom and can be booked for free here:
Please share therefore, again and again.
Darren Freebury-Jones.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.083 Sunday, 14 May 2023
From: Jacob Siefring <
Date: May 12 at 9:50 PM EDT
Subject: Announcing ‘Four Sermons’ by Jeremy Taylor
Sublunary Editions is pleased to announce the print publication of Four Sermons (228pp) by the Anglican preacher and theologian Jeremy Taylor in its Empyrean Series imprint. The volume includes two of Taylor’s most famous and eloquent sermons—the funeral sermons for the Countess of Carbery and for Archbishop Bramhall—as well as the two-part stoic reflection on human self-deception and sinfulness, “The Deceitfulnesse of the Heart”. Thirty pages of critical notes are provided, glossing Taylor’s sundry Latin and Greek quotations of writers from antiquity and the early days of Christianity. This edition also features the calligrammic Latin epitaph to the Carbery sermon in both Latin and in a new English translation, as well as the critical appreciation “Jeremy Taylor’s Place in Literary History”, by British critic Edmund Gosse (1904). Overall the volume is intended as a light introduction to Taylor’s work, and it makes available a selection of his writings that are not in print anywhere else at this time.
Taylor’s reputation for eloquent oration has been advanced by a number of appreciative critics, including George Saintsbury, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, and William H. Gass. As Edmund Gosse puts it in the aforementioned critical appreciation,
“There is nobody, except Sir Thomas Browne, in the hundred years of English prose between the Euphuists and Shaftesbury, who can be mentioned in the same breath with Taylor for this richness of imaginative ornament. But he is lifted above all prose-writers of the seventeenth century, even above Browne, by his simplicity, his natural air. He says things which are audacious enough for Shakespeare, and gorgeous enough for Ruskin, but he says them in perfect naturalness. It is in this that his powerful charm resides[.]”
This old-spelling edition joins several other early modern old-spelling texts in the Empyrean catalogue. Each text is offered in an old spelling edition with period-appropriate typographic ornaments, and a brief glossary of rare and unfamiliar words. The other titles are:
A Cypresse Grove (1623/1630), by William Drummond of Hawthornden (50pp)
A Looking Glasse for the Court, by Antonio de Guevara, trans. Sir Francis Bryan (1539, 1548; 150pp)
Fantasticks (1626), by Nicholas Breton (50pp)
These three are also available as a discounted bundle.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.082 Tuesday, 9 May 2023
From: David Weiss <
Date: May 9 at 12:49 PM EDT
Subject: Interview on Samuel Daniel and Shakespeare’s Richard II
Below is a link to my recent interview about the relationship between Samuel Daniel’s First Four Books of the Civil Wars and Shakespeare’s Richard II. It includes analyses of Shakespeare’s possible use of an early manuscript version of Daniel’s poem, and the shared connections that both Daniel and Shakespeare had to the Essex circle at the time that the works were written. The interview was conducted by Marianna Iannaccone, who keeps a website and YouTube channel devoted to John Florio, and it is part of her series of videos titled “Florio Café”.
LET’S TALK OF GRAVES, OF WORMS, AND EPITAPHS WITH DAVID WEISS | FLORIO CAFE