The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0674 Wednesday, 24 December 2008
From: Annalisa Castaldo <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 9 Dec 2008 09:49:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: CFP for Edited Collection on Early Modern Audiences
"Play'd to Great Applause": Early Modern Audience and Audiences of Early
Modern Drama
Editors seek articles of 5000-7000 words, including notes, for a
proposed book-length collection entitled "Play'd to Great Applause":
Early Modern Audience and Audiences of Early Modern Drama
We seek essays discussing the behaviors, beliefs, attitudes or
composition of either contemporary or current audiences of early modern
drama. Part One will look at audiences from 1580-1640, while Part Two
will focus on late-twentieth and twenty-first century productions of
early modern drama. This collection will focus on live performance, not
film and television productions.
Articles may address such issues as:
. the audience and civic pageants
. the audience and dumb shows
. the audience and censorship
. the audience and other "entertainments" (hangings, bear-baitings, and
sermons)
. antitheatrical tracts' definition of audience
. actors as audience, audience as actors
. cult of personality
. power of the spectator
. non-Shakespearean plays and the modern viewer
. Shakespeare festivals
. modern staging in reconstructed theatres (London Globe)
. directing the early modern play for the 21st century audience
We welcome submissions from scholars, actors, directors, and others.
Send detailed proposals and brief CVs by January 31, 2009 to both
editors, preferably electronically. Completed essays will be expected by
May 31, 2009.
Annalisa Castaldo, Humanities Division, 1 University Place, Widener
University, Chester, PA 19050 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Rhonda Knight, Department of Communications, Language, and Literature,
300 E. College Ave., Coker College, Hartsville, SC 29550 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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