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Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Publication and Webinar |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0098 Tuesday, 12 March 2013
From: Paul Edmondson <
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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?
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A collection of essays by major authorities in the field discuss the authorship debate surrounding Shakespeare’s work
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Provides a wide range of discussions of all significant aspects of the topic in a readable and engaging style
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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.
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The Inner Life of Shakespeare’s Sonnets |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0095 Friday, 8 March 2013
From: Red Bull Theater <
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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
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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
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Conference Notice: Popes and the Papacy |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0094 Friday, 8 March 2013
From: Duncan Salkeld <
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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
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Second Annual London Shakespeare Lecture in Honor of Professor Stanley Wells, C.B.E. |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0090 Tuesday, 26 February 2013
From: Actors From The London Stage <
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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/
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Call For Papers - Wooden O Symposium, August 12-14, 2013 |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0086 Monday, 25 February 2013
From: Matt Nickerson <
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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
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http://www.bard.org/woodeno
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ISE Newsletter—The Shakespeare Herald |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0081 Friday, 22 February 2013
From: Michael Best <
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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.
We look forward to hearing from you. Please email queries to
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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.
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Proceedings of the Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Graduate Conference 2009-2011 |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0079 Thursday, 21 February 2013
From: Sofia Novello <
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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,
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Susannah Carson on ‘Living with Shakespeare’ |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0072 Monday, 18 February 2013
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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.
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Launch: Issue 7.2. of Borrowers and Lenders |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0071 Monday, 18 February 2013
From: Sujata Iyengar <
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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.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0068 Friday, 15 February 2013
From: Gabriel Egan <
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Date: February 15, 2013 11:06:52 AM EST
Subject: PhD Studentship at DMU
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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
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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
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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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Call For Journal Articles For Special Edition Of Shakespeare |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0063 Thursday, 14 February 2013
From: Abigail Rokison <
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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 –
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by March 30th 2013.
The deadline for finished articles will be August 2013 for publication in March 2014.
Thank you,
Abigail Rokison |
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