Re: Critical Survey: Special issue on Shakespeare and War

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.349  Tuesday, 28 July 2015

From:        Patrick Gray <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

Date:         July 27, 2015 at 6:27:16 PM EDT

Subject:    Re: Critical Survey: Special issue on Shakespeare and War

As the author of the CFP for Critical Survey for a special issue on “Shakespeare and War,” I want to assure Larry Weiss, as well as other readers of Shaksper.net, that I would welcome essays sympathetic to conservative principles, as well as progressive, and contributions critical of the “East,” so to speak, as well as the “West.” As I myself asked, for example, after a recent panel at the SAA, “If Bush was Henry V, is Obama Henry VI?” In all seriousness, though, I do want to be clear: I am open to contributions which are strictly historicist, as well as those which are unabashedly presentist, and I would be happy to consider arguments which lean right, as well as left. As Blake wrote, “Without Contraries is no progression.” I sincerely hope to showcase a variety of perspectives, and I think that will be possible. Judging from the expressions of interest to date, I think and I hope that readers will be pleasantly surprised, as well as intrigued, by the range of opinion on offer. And I would also continue to encourage anyone considering contributing to be in touch by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. I am happy to discuss ideas and possibilities informally in advance of the January 15 deadline, especially now, in the summer, while the days are long, the students are away, and my inbox is blissfully free of the usual term-time barrage.

Patrick Gray

Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature

Department of English Studies

Durham University

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