The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0431 Tuesday, 3 July 2007
From: Al Magary <
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Date: Monday, 02 Jul 2007 14:09:18 -0700
Subject: Shakespeare at Oxford
From: Mike Pincombe <
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Dear All-Richard McCabe has asked me to send round this message clearing
up certain egregious errors re Shakespeare at Oxford which the quality
British press have been putting about.-Mike
Shakespeare at Oxford
from Richard McCabe, Chairman of the Oxford English Faculty Board
The articles appearing in Saturday's Independent and today's Telegraph
about the future of undergraduate Shakespeare Studies in Oxford's
English Faculty are erroneous and misleading. Contrary to those reports
there has been no proposal to drop the compulsory Shakespeare paper and
the study of Shakespeare will remain central to the course.
The Oxford English Faculty is in the process of reviewing its syllabus
and the mode of delivery and assessment of its courses. It has
undertaken this review in response to developments in the wider academic
community and to the changing needs of its students and talents of its
staff. It remains fully committed to promoting the study of Shakespeare
at both graduate and undergraduate level and there is no proposal to
abolish the Shakespeare paper or to diminish the study of Shakespeare in
any way. On the contrary, the faculty's teaching strength in the area
has been greatly increased by the appointments of Tiffany Stern and
Simon Palfrey whose collaborative work on Shakespeare's playtexts
represents a radical reappraisal of the textual history of the canon.
Their arrival lends the Faculty the highest concentration of
Shakespeareans in its history (with Colin Burrow, Katherine
Duncan-Jones, Richard McCabe, Tom MacFaul, Laurie Maguire, David
Norbrook, John Pitcher, Diane Purkiss, Emma Smith, Bart van Es, and
David Womersley). Oxford University Press publishes one of the most
successful editions of Shakespeare in the world and, working in
collaboration with the Press, the English Faculty has established the
Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures which are intended to provide an
international forum for debate on a par with the Clarendon and Ford
Lectures. The Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, named in honour of
Stanley Wells, will be published by OUP. Two internationally renowned
scholars, Professor David Scott-Kastan and Professor Katharine Eisaman
Maus, will be the first participants. Shakespeare has a permanent home
at Oxford.
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