The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.1044 Friday, 24 November 2006
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Date: Wednesday, 22 Nov 2006 22:49:12 -0500
Subject: B&L 2.1 / Call for Papers for 4.1, Shakespeare and Actors
of Color
The Editors of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and
Appropriation are delighted to announce the launch of issue 2.1,
Shakespeare for Children, at http://www.borrowers.uga.edu (click the
"Current Issue" button on the left-hand menu bar, or go directly to the
Table of Contents at
http://atropos.english.uga.edu/cocoon/borrowers/current_index).
Borrowers and Lenders is a peer-reviewed, online, multimedia Shakespeare
journal that was launched in 2005. The journal appears biannually, with a
special issue in the Spring/Summer and general issue in the Fall/Winter.
B&L is indexed in the MLA Bibliography, World Shakespeare Bibliograpy, and
other databases, and belongs to the CELJ. For readers' convenience, we
provide .pdf versions of the text of our articles, although copyright and
technical restrictions compel us to display multimedia (pictures, film
clips, sound clips, PowerPoint presentations, maps, etc.) online only. Our
archive is available at
http://atropos.english.uga.edu/cocoon/borrowers/archive .
Issue 2.1 (Spring/Summer 2006) is a special issue, Shakespeare for
Children. It includes Sheila Cavanagh on cognition and crushes in Romeo
and Juliet for children; Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Agata Zarzycka on
Shakespearean Live-Action Role-Playing Games; Darlene Ciraulo and Daniel
Schierenbeck on fraternal and sororal education in the Lambs' Tales from
Shakespeare and Poetry for Children; Angela Keam on "Shakesteen" movies
and the star-body of Claire Danes; Erica Hateley on the mermaid/Miranda
metaphor in children's literature; and reviews of the Folger's exhibition
on Shakespeare for Children and Georgia Shakespeare's "Boot Camp
Shakespeare" for preschoolers. This issue also includes a special review
cluster, edited by Alice Dailey, on Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet at the 2006
Shakespeare Association of America, and reviews of books on Shakespeare
and Appropriation.
Calls for Papers
The editors of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and
Appropriation welcome original scholarship engaging with the afterlives of
Shakespearean texts and their literary, filmic, multimedia, and critical
histories. We encourage contributors to use the online format to its best
advantage, in particular, by imagining how to enhance, illustrate, or
extend their essays with multimedia (screen captures, sound clips, images,
and so on).
Currently we solicit essays, book reviews, accounts of Appropriation in
Performance, essay-clusters, and new discoveries for upcoming general and
special issues. Future special issues include Canadian Shakespeares (2007,
guest editor Daniel Fischlin), and Shakespeare and Actors of Color (2008,
guest editor Ayanna Thompson). We welcome suggestions for themes for
special issues.
We accept submissions for general issues year-round, and are also
currently accepting essays for our upcoming special issue, Shakespeare and
Actors of Color, B&L 4.1 (Spring/Summer 2008), guest-edited by Ayanna
Thompson, Arizona State University. This special edition of Borrowers and
Lenders seeks to examine the use of actors of color in contemporary
Shakespeare productions. We welcome essays that address such questions as:
How does Shakespeare's cultural capital inform the desire to employ actors
of color in modern productions? How do Shakespearean productions
complicate and/or ameliorate anxieties about the significance of race
vis--vis color in performance? Is there a relationship between the
employment of actors of color and the desire to adapt Shakespeare's plays
politically, culturally, and/or socially? Please send essays by electronic
mail to
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by May 1, 2007.
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