The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0912 Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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Date: Monday, 16 Oct 2006 10:43:52 -0400
Subject: Folger Late-Spring Seminar on Staging Political Thought
Faculty and advanced graduate students are invited to apply:
Staging Political Thought
A Late-Spring Seminar directed by Conal Condren (University of New South
Wales)
This seminar is sponsored by the Center for the History of British
Political Thought to bring together scholars of literature and
intellectual history to examine plays from the Shakespearean corpus in
the context of the issues in political thought that were being addressed
in England from the late-sixteenth to early-seventeenth centuries. As
the history of political thought has characteristically been concerned
with the formation and interplay of doctrines, the seminar will give
attention to the rather different functions that political vocabularies,
languages, and propositions can have when transformed on the stage as
topoi, plot mechanisms, role-markers, and allusions, as well as issues
put before an audience for debate. The seminar will also attend to the
difficulties of extrapolating doctrines and ideological commitments from
dramatic evidence. Each week will concentrate on a contemporary
political theme and its manifestations in a small number of plays:
counsel and rule; tyranny and misrule; casuistry and principled conduct;
citizenship and patriotism. Some attention will also be given to the
often conspicuous absence of the burning issues of confessional
hostility and to the diminishing importance of oath-taking and breaking
in Shakespeare's plays. The plays discussed will cover the range of
Shakespeare's work: Henry V, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, The
Tempest, Richard III, and King Lear. Visiting faculty will include Jean
Howard (Columbia University) and Peter Lake (Princeton University).
Director: Conal Condren is Scientia Professor Emeritus in the School of
Politics and International Relations at the University of New South
Wales. His publications include The Language of Politics in
Seventeenth-Century England (1994) and Satire, Lies, and Politics: The
Case of Dr. Arbuthnot (1997). His Argument and Authority in Early Modern
England is forthcoming.
Schedule: Thursdays and Fridays, 1 - 4:30 p.m., 17 May through 15 June 2007.
Application Deadline: 3 January 2007 for admission (and grants-in-aid
for Folger consortium affiliates). Visit www.folger.edu/institute for
our online application form.
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