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The International Shakespeare Association will be holding their Ninth World Shakespeare Congress in Prague, Czech Republic on 17--22 July 2011. The ISA has recently announced an extension of registration for seminars until 30 September 2010. Anyone interested can check out full details at <http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/442/446/>. We hope that our readers will be especially interested in this seminar: No. 36. Shakespeare after REED. Leaders: Sally-Beth Maclean (University of Toronto,Canada) and Lawrence Manley (Yale University, USA) During the past thirty years the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project has published documentary evidence of entertainment in the English provinces in a series of volumes that have contributed to reassessment of professional theatre in the Elizabethan era. This seminar invites papers that explore recent developments in Shakespearean studies stimulated by fresh archival research and/or REED initiatives in the following areas: -- patronage of theatre in all its forms -- acting companies: repertory, provincial touring and London careers, financing -- convergence of medieval and Elizabethan dramatic style and genre -- theatrical spaces: building types, material conditions -- digital applications: research databases, performance texts, data visualization A variety of approaches will be welcomed and need not be restricted to Shakespeare alone, but rather can be applied more broadly to the period of his lifetime.