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Forwarded message: Dear REEDers, I thought this notice might be of general interest. > From [log in to unmask] Wed Oct 21 21:54:54 1992 > Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 21:54:53 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] (Thomas G. Bishop) > To: reed > Subject: [[log in to unmask]: Conference Announcement] > Reply-To: [log in to unmask] (Thomas G. Bishop) > > > > PLEASE POST THE FOLLOWING CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT > > > First Notice > > > > OHIO SHAKESPEARE CONFERENCE 1993 > > March 25-27, 1993 > > > The Ohio Shakespeare Conference for 1993 will be held in Cleveland OH and > hosted jointly by Case Western Reserve Univeristy and Cleveland State > University. The topic for the conference will be: > > > "There the Whole Palace Open'd": Court and Society in Jacobean England > > > This will be an interdisciplinary conference drawing on the work of literary > scholars, historians, art historians and musicologists. The central topic is > the court of King James: its structure; organization; political, social and > aesthetic tastes; impact on local and wider English histories. In pursuing > the court's images and accounts of itself, the conference will include a > full-scale, historically informed reconstruction of the masque > > > "Oberon, the Faery Prince" > > > by Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, Robert Jones and others. Consideration of Oberon > as an instance of Jacobean court culture will include a discussion of the > production with the professional artists involved: stage director, > choreographer and music director. > > > Plenary speakers at the conference will be: > > Prof. Leeds Barroll, University of Maryland > > Prof. Peter Holman, University of Essex > > Prof. Fritz Levy, University of Washington > > Prof. Annabel Patterson, Duke University > > Prof. Stephen Orgel, Stanford University > > > Scholars who work in the area of the early seventeenth century in any > discipline are invited to submit papers (8-10 pages; 20 mins reading time) > or abstracts (2 pp. max) to > > Prof. David Evett > Dept of English > Cleveland State Univeristy > Cleveland, OH 44115 > > or > > Prof. T.G. Bishop > Dept of English > Case Western Reserve University > Cleveland, OH 44106 > > Abstracts may also be submitted by email to Dr. Bishop at [log in to unmask] > > Enquiries or requests for information should be addressed also to the above. > > The deadline for submission is DECEMBER 15, 1992. > > > > > -- > Tom Bishop "Poor Tom has been scared out of his good wits" > Dept of English > Case Western Reserve University > Cleveland, OH 44106. ([log in to unmask]) >