The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0009 Thursday, 9 February 2006
From: Holger Schott Syme <
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Date: Wednesday, 8 Feb 2006 20:58:11 -0500
Subject: UPDATE: CFP: Shakespeare and the Queen's Men (2/15/06;
10/27-29/06)
CALL FOR PAPERS
SHAKESPEARE AND THE QUEEN'S MEN CONFERENCE
Toronto, 27-29 Oct 2006 -- Abstracts deadline: February 15, 2006
This major international conference at the University of Toronto is
being organized by the SSHRC-funded "Shakespeare and the Queen's Men"
project in association with Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS). The project,
a joint venture led by Alexandra Johnston (REED, University of Toronto)
and Helen Ostovich (McMaster University), aims to recreate the staging
conditions of a sixteenth-century touring company in order to study and
test scholarly theories about acting styles and repertory through
performance practice.
The conference will feature keynote addresses by Roslyn Knutson, Tiffany
Stern, and Martin White; these will be followed by thematically
organized seminars on the Queen's Men and their theatrical
contemporaries, including questions of repertory, acting styles, and
touring, as well as ensemble and casting issues. Participants will have
a rare opportunity to see three Queen's Men plays (King Leir, Three
Ladies of London, and The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth) in
different venues in Toronto and Hamilton reflecting the range of playing
spaces available to touring companies. We invite papers dealing with
theatrical practice in the plays of the Queen's Men and other companies
of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries or addressing
theatre-historical questions pertaining to the works of Shakespeare, his
contemporaries and collaborators, and their borrowings from or
transformations of theatrical material of the 1580s and 90s. Related
concerns might include the social history of playing, the history of
censorship, provincial and metropolitan conditions of performance, or
early dramaturgy, including but not limited to questions of staging,
clowning, extemporization, jigs, etc. Submissions from graduate students
and theatre practitioners doing work in these fields would be
particularly welcome.
Proposals of 250 words for papers (maximum length 3000 words) should be
submitted by February 15, 2006 to
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please). For more information on the "Shakespeare and the Queen's Men"
project, consult
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/QueensMen/conference.html.
Chris Hicklin, Jeremy Lopez, Helen Ostovich, and Holger Syme
Program Committee
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