I’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies”). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]

I’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]

Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)

How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Rethinking Shakespeare and Italy: Cultural Exchanges from the Early Modern Period to the Present, ed. by Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis (Routledge: Studies in Shakespeare Series)

This volume brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, drama, and linguistics, as well as actors…[Read more]

The Robt Greene topic reminds me.  Renn. scholars in the U.S. should be aware of  work in Britain which has changed/supplemented knowledge of earlier drama.  Greg Walker’s work is a good key to the whole and and his history re-names the “morality”  play as part of Tudor Drama in his book of that name, his anthology, and bibliography.  Rece…[Read more]

Hello All,

I’m starting a project looking into the theater scene of London pre-1592, using Robert Greene and his “Conny Catching” pamphlets as my entry point. My hope is to gain a better understanding of the social environment at that time through the different contributors of the “pamphlet wars”, of which Greene seems to be at the center.  The…[Read more]

The Aphra Behn Society will be hosting two sessions at ASECS in 2015. Abstracts due to session organizers by September 1, 2014.

SESSION 1:

Collaborations: Women in the Arts

Dr. Carolyn Woodward

writecjw@gmail.com

During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of…[Read more]

Walk Poems: Moving Through America on Foot

NeMLA’s 46th Annual Conference in Toronto, Ontario, April 30 through May 3, 2015

Deadline for Submission: September 30, 2014

This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the…[Read more]

Hello, Everybody Shakespearean,

A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.

At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional…[Read more]

Dear Wonderful Teachers of Shakespeare,

CultureWorks Productions, in partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe (London), is developing an exciting new service called<b> Shakespeare Central</b>, an easily accessible database of all kinds of Shakespeare media.

<b>Shakespeare Central</b> will be the hub for a vast collection of Shakespeare inf…[Read more]