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> Conference Announcement > > The Comic in Shakespeare Conference > 28 to 30 June 2001, Canterbury, United Kingdom > > In this two day conference, academics from France, the > United States, Germany, Australia and England will > discuss various aspects of comedy in Shakespeare's > plays. The conference will also host an after-dinner > lecture by the comic novelist Howard Jacobson. > > The Programme: > - Francois Laroque, `Saturnalian comedy: Falstaff and > Cleopatra'; > - Scott Fraser: `Shakespeare's early Clowns'; > - Carol Rutter: `Laugh? I could have cried'; > - Beatrix Hesse: `Comic communication patterns in > Twelfth Night'; > - Iain Topliss: `Hamlet and Freud's joke book'; > - Marvin Krims: `Laughter and Cruelty in The Shrew'; > - Ann Blake: `The Taming of the Shrew: making fun of > Katherine'; > - Molly Mahood: `Shakespeare's art of prior parody'; > - Michael Cordner: `Actors, annotators and Shakespearean > comic dialogues' > - - Howard Jacobson: `Hamlet or how to lighten up'; > - Sue Wiseman: `Comic violence in The Comedy of Errors > and The Merry Wives'; > - Bob Madison: `Killing Jack Cade'; > - Emma Smith: `Mirth in funeral: laughter and excess in > Shakespeare's tragedies'; > - David Ellis: `Black comedy in Titus Andronicus'. > > The full cost of this conference, including bed (two nights), > full board, entertainment and the conference fee, is ú130. > For further details and registration forms please contact > Magali Raynaud, > School of English, > University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, UK > (email: [log in to unmask]). > > E-mail enquiries: [log in to unmask] > > Organized by: University of Kent at Canterbury > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > This conference announcement distributed by ConferenceAlerts.com