The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0216  Monday, 6 May 2013

From:        Susan Rojas < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         May 6, 2013 7:39:55 AM EDT

Subject:     Tampa Rep – Hamlet

A few months back, C. David Frankel invited shaksper.net members to the Tampa Rep & Hat Trick Theatre's production of Hamlet. I was able to make the trip this past weekend, and thought it was excellent. I encourage anyone in the Tampa area to go see it; www.tamparep.org shows it running through 5/12. Well done to all involved!

Susan Rojas

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0215  Monday, 6 May 2013

From:        Helen M. Ostovich < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         May 6, 2013 1:06:25 PM EDT

Subject:     Early Theatre 16.1 (June 2013)

EARLY THEATRE 16.1 (2013) Contents

  http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/

Articles

The Will of Simon Jewell and the Queen’s Men Tours in 1592

            Chiaki Hanabusa

‘This place was made for pleasure not for death’: Performativity, Language, and Action in The Spanish Tragedy

            Alexandra S. Ferretti

Shared Borders: The Puppet in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair

            Kristina E. Caton

‘Bound up and clasped together’: Bookbinding as Metaphor for Marriage in Richard Brome’s The Love-Sick Court

            Eleanor Lowe

Accidents Happen: Roger Barnes’s 1612 Edition of Marlowe’s Edward II

            Mathew R. Martin

Old Testament Adaptation in The Stonyhurst Pageants

            J. Case Tompkins

Note

Hornpipes and Disordered Dancing in The Late LancashireWitches: A Reel Crux?

            Brett D. Hirsch

Review Essay

Defining Tudor Drama

            Kent Cartwright

Book Reviews

John H. Astington. Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s Time: The Art of Stage Playing. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2010.

            Reviewed by Eleanor Lowe

Janette Dillon. Shakespeare and the Staging of English History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

            Reviewed by Patrick J. Murray

Christina M. Fitzgerald and John T. Sebastian (eds). The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2013.

            Reviewed by Chester N. Scoville

Charles R. Forker (ed.). The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.

            Reviewed by Karen Oberer

Katherine R. Larson. Early Modern Women in Conversation. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

            Reviewed by Sarah Johnson

Christopher Marsh. Music and Society in Early Modern England.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

            Reviewed by Katherine Hunt

Kathryn M. Moncrieff and Kathryn R. McPherson. Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011.

            Reviewed by Yvonne Bruce

Helen Smith. Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

            Reviewed by Christina Luckyj

Ayanna Thompson. Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race and Contemporary America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

            Reviewed by Jami Rogers

Alden T. & Virginia Mason Vaughan. Shakespeare in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

            Reviewed by Alan Andrews

Martin Wiggins, in association with Catherine Richardson. British Drama 1533–1642: A Catalogue. Volume I: 1533–1566. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

            Reviewed by Peter Happé

Helen M Ostovich  < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Editor, Early Theatre <http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/>

Professor, English and Cultural Studies

McMaster University

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0214  Monday, 6 May 2013

From:        Neema Parvini < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         April 27, 2013 7:24:46 AM EDT

Subject:     Podcasts: Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Recently I have been conducting a series of podcast interviews with various literary theorists and Shakespeare scholars on some of the topics above for a series of podcasts which aim to gain an understanding of the current state of play as regards both theory and practice in Shakespeare studies.

The first 12 episodes can be found at the links below (the next will be an interview with H. Aram Veeser):

http://www.uniofsurreyblogs.org.uk/shakespeare/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/shakespeare-contemporary-theory/id583690701

I have interviewed and am in the process of interviewing people who speak from a variety of different perspectives, including Jonathan Dollimore, Hugh Grady, John Drakakis, Lisa Hopkins, Gabriel Egan, Steven Mullaney, and others. 

Neema Parvini

Lecturer in English Literature

School of English and Languages

University of Surrey

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0213  Monday, 6 May 2013

From:        Don Weingust < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         May 5, 2013 1:48:04 PM EDT

Subject:     CFP: The Shakespearean Performance Research Group
 

Call For Papers, Deadline: Monday, June 3rd, 2013

The Shakespearean Performance Research Group

of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

American Society for Theatre Research / Theatre Library Association 2013 Conference

Dallas, Texas

November 7 – 10, 2013

The Fairmont Dallas Hotel

The Shakespearean Performance Research Group of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) provides an ongoing home for the study of Shakespearean performance within ASTR.

In the spirit of the open-themed Dallas ASTR conference, this year’s Shakespearean Performance Research Group (SPRG) seeks to maintain a focus limited only by Shakespearean performance.  For the 2013 meeting, the SPRG invites papers that broadly interrogate what is meant by Shakespearean performance. For example, this questioning might involve the interplay between early and late modern performance in some dimension, the cultural work that Shakespearean drama and performance continue to do, the ways in which relationships between the “literary” and the “performative” have been construed over more than 400 years of performance, the theories and legacies of Shakespearean performance across performance media, how Shakespeare performance constructs and is constructed by specific communities. Papers accepted to previous sessions have tended to address questions of practical theatre, specific issues in history and historiography, and theoretical concerns, but we are looking for a wide range of engagements with Shakespeare and performance.

Selected papers will be assigned to subgroups by the group’s conveners, Catherine Burriss, Franklin J. Hildy, Robert Ormsby, Don Weingust and W. B. Worthen, and the conveners will organize on-line communication of subgroup members before the conference. At the conference session, papers will be discussed first within subgroups, after which the subgroups will come together to exchange ideas.

This past year, the Shakespearean Performance Research Group began a relationship with The Journal of the Wooden O, which is publishing select papers from the 2012 Research Group gathering in Nashville. Select contributions to the 2013 Dallas Research Group meeting will be considered for publication in the following summer’s edition.

Please submit a 200-word abstract and 50-word academic biographical statement, including current affiliations, if any, by Monday, June 3 2013, to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Proposals also can be mailed to Don Weingust, Center for Shakespeare Studies, Southern Utah University / Utah Shakespeare Festival, 351 University Boulevard, South Hall 101A, Cedar City, UT 84720).

More information about ASTR and the Dallas conference is available at http://www.astr.org.

Don Weingust

Director of Shakespeare Studies

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts

Center for Shakespeare Studies

Southern Utah University / Utah Shakespeare Festival

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http://suu.edu/shakespeare