The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.519 Tuesday, 3 November 2015
From: Verena Theile <
Date: November 3, 2015 at 11:03:33 AM EST
Subject: Fargo Shakespeare Month
Fargo, ND is hosting a community-wide celebration of Shakespeare during the month of February, 2016: www.winterartsfest.org
ShakespeareFest 2016 in FARGO ND
During the festival, artists of all disciplines will create and present work inspired by the festival’s celebrated artist, William Shakespeare. The WinterArts Festival is much more than an arts event. It turns the perceived injustice of our long, dark winter into a point of pride and participation for the whole community. It’s a unique opportunity for artists to engage with each other in the spirit of collaboration and to challenge each other artistically. Visit our the event-website (www.winterartsfest.org) to see all of the performances, concerts, happy hours, talks, readings, lectures, and other experiences that our creative community has planned. Plenary speakers include Douglas Lanier (University of New Hampshire) and Jennifer Roberts-Smith (University of Waterloo).
CFP for edited collection, Contending with Shakespeare through Adaptation
Chapter proposals are invited for a collection of essays that will explore Shakespearean adaptations as statements, often assertions about the nature of the work they engage. That adaptations have contributed to Shakespeare’s afterlife cannot be disputed. They are re-imaginings of his work in a new context and against a new medium, and, as such, adaptations of Shakespeare are derivative and unique at the same time. With that premise in mind, the history of Shakespeare in adaptation may also uncover the history of assumptions about what Shakespeare constitutes–as a playwright, poet, cultural icon, or otherwise.
The collection we envision will take up adaptations and appropriations with a focus on what these new products reveal about Shakespeare’s parameters or limits. Accordingly, we seek essays that explore cases of appropriation that help bring these limitations to light and confront the implications of transposing Shakespeare to a particular situation or audience. Essays might consider, for example, unexpected failures in appropriation; critically controversial productions or editions; adaptations that explicitly address conflicts in Shakespeare’s reception; or any other instance where a particular appropriation of Shakespeare helped draw attention to unexamined preconceptions of his literary or cultural stature.
Please submit enquiries, chapter proposals (500 words), or drafts of essays (7,500 words) to the editors Verena Theile (
Verena Theile
Associate Professor of English
Dean's Fellow/College of AHSS
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY