23 September 1996
Apologies to those of you who have already seen this call for papers,
forwarded to reed-l around this time last month. I recently attended a
conference at which it came to my attention that some subscribers to the
list had not received this posting, so here it is again. I would very
much appreciate it if members of reed-l could forward this announcement
to other newsgroups to which they subscribe, as well as their own
institutions' bulletin boards.
Regards
Andrew Spong
IN SHAKESPEARE'S SHADOW
'MINOR' DRAMA, 1590-1610
A CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
22 MARCH 1997
***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****
'In Shakespeare's Shadow' will bring together research on the drama of
1590-1610 that is currently under-represented in literary study. The aim
of the conference is to re-evaluate the drama of this period in its own
right, and to question the canonical authority that Shakespeare commands
to the detriment of all but a handful of his peers.
Proposal for papers (20 mins. in length) are invited on a range of
topics, including individual authors, canonical politics, intertextuality
and the production of meaning, authorial authority, drama as cultural
commodity, spectatorship and class, historicism vs. formalism, the
use-value of drama, theatre as national genre, drama as social labour,
difference dramatised, alternative heroes, disregarding/discarding
Shakespeare.
Theoretical and interdisciplinary work is especially welcome.
Proposals of no more than 300 words in length (deadline 31 January 1997)
and/or requests for further information should be sent to us at the
following address:
Andy Spong and Andrew Stott
Centre for Renaissance Studies
University of Hertfordshire
Wall Hall
Aldenham
Herts. WD2 8AT
or e-mail us at:
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