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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 30.074  Tuesday, 26 February 2019

From:        Darren Freebury-Jones <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

Date:         February 25, 2019 at 12:08:57 PM EST

Subject:    Second CFP: ‘Authorship Studies in Early Modern Drama and Literature’ 

Dear SHAKSPERians,

This is my second and hopefully final call for papers. I hope you will submit an article or book review proposal. Proposed titles and abstracts must be emailed to me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by April 1st (this is not a fool’s...). Please note that the word count limit of 7000 words is apt to change should I receive a large number of abstracts. 

CALL FOR PAPERS: ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (2020)

I am pleased to announce that I will be guest editor for a special issue of American Notes and Queries (scheduled to be published in 2020) titled: ‘Authorship Studies in Early Modern Drama and Literature’. 

The issue will address authorship during the early modern period, including, but not limited to, the works of Shakespeare and his Elizabethan and Jacobean contemporary writers; canonicity; attribution studies; evaluating and/or introducing methodologies for discriminating writers; the current state of authorship studies; digital innovations and textual analyses of plays, poems, and other genres; corpus linguistics; co-authorship; as well as reviews of books concerning authorship, attribution, canonicity, and textual studies written within the last five years. 

Main deadlines:

1 April 2019:

Please send an abstract of up to 250 words and a working title to the guest editor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). 

31 May 2019:

Notification of acceptance.

1 August 2019:

Submission of articles and reviews for the special issue to the journal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/anq

Please note that articles must comply with the editorial norms and must not exceed 7,000 words (subject to change, as mentioned above). Book reviews must not exceed 1000 words. All articles are published in English. Please be so kind as to have your paper revised by a native speaker. 

Darren Freebury-Jones

Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies (International – USA)

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon