Announcements
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.081 Monday, 8 May 2023
From: Alison Findlay <
Date: May 7 at 5:38 PM EDT
Subject: Shakespeare or not Shakespeare, that is the question?
How much (if any?) of Edward III did Shakespeare write and who might have written the rest? An opportunity to see the play and to judge for yourself is forthcoming in our production to be staged in Lancaster Castle in the north of England.
The Castle has its own connections to Edward III and the Duchy of Lancaster (King Charles III is the current Duke of Lancaster) and a recently discovered manuscript in the National Archives suggests interest in this period of history at the time Edward III was published.
The production will run from 1-3 June at 7.00 pm. Tickets can be purchased online.
All are welcome!
Alison Findlay (Lancaster University UK)
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.080 Sunday, 7 May 2023
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: May 7 at 7:16 AM EDT
Subject: Shakespeare’s First Folio: Emma Smith
This is a talk with Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, about Shakespeare’s First Folio. This year, 2023, is the 400th anniversary of this monumental edition. This conversation covers the re-release of two of Emma’s books, one on the making of the First Folio and one on the history of its reception over the following centuries:
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.078 Thursday, 4 May 2023
From: Darren Freebury-Jones <
Date: May 4 at 7:21 AM EDT
Subject: The Birth of Merlin
I have never laughed so much during an interview than in this discussion of The Birth of Merlin, attributed to Shakespeare in 1662. Anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating drama, its printing and authorship history, can listen here: https://youtu.be/ZSAl4tJ-ID8
Darren Freebury-Jones
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.069 Monday, 24 April 2023
From: Islam Issa <
Date: April 24 at 9:52 AM EDT
Subject: BBC Radio series: “Reading the First Folio”
BBC Radio 3’s The Essay
Reading The First Folio
Four hundred years since the publication of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, five writers, actors or directors each take a passage from a play from the momentous book to tell listeners what they think it means, and what it means to them. Each writer has been asked to select a single-voiced passage – soliloquy, monologue, speech, or song.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kvpw/episodes/player
Professor Dame Marina Warner on Othello
Author and historian Marina Warner chooses a speech from early in Othello: Act 1, Scene 3.
Playwright David Hare chooses Macbeth’s imagining of old age from Act 5, Scene 3.
Professor Islam Issa on Julius Caesar
Professor Islam Issa chooses a passage spoken by Julius Caesar in Act 2, Scene 2.
Michelle Terry on As You Like It
Actor Michelle Terry chooses a speech by ‘love doctor’ Rosalind from Act 3, Scene 2.
Director Richard Eyre chooses a speech by Lear to his daughter Cordelia - Act 5, Scene 3.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.065 Monday, 10 April 2023
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: April 7 at 3:42 PM EDT
Subject: Ian Smith: Black Shakespeare
This is a talk with Ian Smith, current president of the Shakespeare Association of America, about his new book, ‘Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race’ (Cambridge UP): https://youtu.be/TeFaUwi4pdQ
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.061 Tuesday, 28 March 2023
From: Alexa Alice Joubin <
Date: March 28 at 11:38 AM EDT
Subject: Special issue on contemporary transgender performance of Shakespeare
The open-access special issue on contemporary transgender performance of Shakespeare, edited by Alexa Alice Joubin, has been published by Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation. https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers
The research articles and interviews with trans-identified actors
-- propose “trans” as method and as a social practice
-- argue that the enactment of gender practices is not predicated upon “substitutions”
-- demonstrate trans studies’ relevance to Shakespeare studies
-- highlight practitioners’ voices and amplify marginalized narratives
Table of Contents:
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.060 Monday, 27 March 2023
From: Stephanie Chamberlain <
Date: March 27 at 2:00 PM EDT
Subject: CFP: Journal of the Wooden O
The Journal of the Wooden O is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. It is published annually by Southern Utah University Press in connection with the Gerald R. Sherratt Library and the Utah Shakespeare Festival.
The editors invite papers on any topic related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
Articles published in the Journal of the Wooden O are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, World Shakespeare Bibliography and appear full-text in EBSCO Academic Search Premiere.
Selected papers from the annual Wooden O Symposium are also considered for publication.
SUBMISSIONS: Manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. Manuscript submissions should generally be between 3000-7000 words in length. Please review the JWO Style Sheet, which may be found here. The deadline for submission is October 13, 2023. Authors should include all of the following information on a separate page with their submission:
- Author’s name
- Manuscript title
- Mailing address
- Email address
- Daytime phone number
Submit electronic copy to:
For more information, contact:
Journal of the Wooden O
c/o Southern Utah University Press
351 W. University Blvd.
Cedar City, Utah 84720
435.586.1955
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.057 Friday, 24 March 2023
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: March 24 at 7:27 AM EDT
Subject: Speaking of Shakespeare: Gayle Greene
This is a talk with Gayle Greene about her new book, ‘Immeasurable Outcomes: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of the Algorithm’ (Johns Hopkins). This book covers the history of coordinated attacks on humanities education and also examines the administrative obstacles placed on teachers in general in the modern classroom. Gayle pushes back on these forces by using the responses of real students in an actual college Shakespeare class:
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.055 Tuesday, 21 March 2023
From: Jean-Christophe Mayer <
Date: March 21 at 7:52 AM EDT
Subject: Webinar announcement
Exploring Shakespeare’s Folios:
A Webinar
29 March 2023
Supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
(Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 18K00370)
Many events this year have focused understandably on the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio. This webinar will complement these events by offering new perspectives linking the First Folio to its ensuing and no-less prestigious successors.
The material for these papers—and for our discussions—will be partly taken from the unique archive of early modern books and manuscripts available at Meisei University’s Research library (Tokyo, Japan). “Its extensive holdings have innumerable applications to wider areas of Shakespearian research” and the Meisei library “provides an unrivalled opportunity for intercultural dialogue about Shakespeare”, as John Jowett and Mariko Nagase pointed out recently in a forthcoming article (“The Brightest Star: The Meisei Shakespeare Collection”, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 2023).
Each 20-minute paper will be followed by a 15-minute discussion. So, please feel free to join us for a unique session!
Admission is free, but registration is required:
Registration link: https://kyutech-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErf-2urjkpHNx1XIAM2CdTJAtus6HuJLOO
*Please click on ‘skip verification’ if an error message appears.
The Zoom link will be sent shortly to your email address. Partial attendance is also welcome.
Contact:
SCHEDULE:
9:00-9:10 (UK) 10:00-10:10 (France) 17:00-17:10 (Japan)
Introduction
9:10-9:45 (UK) 10:10-10:45 (Fr) 17:10-17:45 (JP)
Shakespeare’s Early Readers’ Reception, Appropriation and Transformation of Printed Paratexts (1600-1800)
Jean-Christophe Mayer
9:45-10:20 (UK) 10:45-11:20 (Fr) 17:45-18:20 (JP)
The Shakespeare First Folio and the Protestant Moment
John Jowett
10:20-10:55 (UK) 11:20-11:55 (Fr) 18:20-18:55 (JP)
Metamorphoses Transformed: Acclimatisation of Ovidian Transformation in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Atsuhiko Hirota
11:05-11:40 (UK) 12:05-12:40 (Fr) 19:05-19:40 (JP)
Reconsidering the Enduring Influence of F2 in Shakespeare’s Editorial History: Examples from Macbeth and The Winter’s Tale
Tomonari Kuwayama
11:40-12:15 (UK) 12:40-13:15 (Fr) 19:40-20:15 (JP)
Uncorrected State of a Stage Direction in the Second Folio Richard III Act 3 Scene 1
Noriko Sumimoto
12:15-12:50 (UK) 13:15-13:50 (Fr) 20:15-20:50 (JP)
The Unsigned Printer of the Shakespeare Fourth Folio (1685)
Mariko Nagase
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.053 Tuesday, 14 March 2023
From: Nick Clary <
Date: March 13 at 8:02 AM EDT
Subject: Alan R. Young
On Valentine’s Day, Alan R. Young passed away, leaving his wife Wendy Katz, his family, and his many friends bereft of a dear and wonderful man. “Alan was a scholar, meticulous in his research, capacious in his breadth of interest, and innovative in his work. He was always interested in the relationship between word and image, whether in his longstanding work on emblem literature, his book on Hamlet and the Visual Arts, his Ophelia gallery of images, or his book on Punch and Shakespeare, an examination of the satirical cartoons in Punch, the nineteenth-century British weekly magazine of humour. His last book, Steam Driven Shakespeare, extends his interest to the widening audience for Shakespeare in the nineteenth century with the advent of the steam driven press. A Google search of Alan R Young will turn up numerous references to books, chapters in books, and articles. He was always in the middle of a project.” A full obituary appears online at https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/halifax-ns/alan-young-11160194. The world of Shakespeare studies has lost a colleague of immense scholarly achievement and a human being of exemplary modesty, kindness, and admirable sensitivity.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 34.047 Sunday, 5 March 2023
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: March 5 at 10:25 AM EST
Subject: Speaking of Shakespeare: Jane Hwang Degenhardt
This is a talk with Jane Hwang Degenhardt of U Mass, Amherst about her recent book, Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage (OUP).