Working Class Shakespeare
Proposed Special Session
2002 MLA Annual Convention in New York
Papers are invited for a proposed special session at the 2002 MLA
conference on the working-class reception of Shakespeare in America at the
turn of the twenty-first century. Studies might explore such questions
as: how do working-class students or theater-goers "read" Shakespeare, the
playwright, the literary figure, the Anglo-American cultural icon, the
canonical fixture? In what ways do such audiences re-appropriate,
interrogate, incorporate, adapt, explain, transform Shakespeare's works?
How is Shakespeare as entertainment commodity being marketed to non-elite
audiences? What assumptions about the working class are at work in such
campaigns? What do such films as *Renaissance Man* or *Shakespeare in
Love* communicate to non-academic audiences? How are the popular media
used to deliver Shakespeare to working class high school or college
students? Other papers that examine the contemporary American working
class as viewers, readers, and consumers of Shakespeare are also welcome.
Papers should be 8-10 pages, or 15-20 minutes reading time.
Please send a 1-2 page abstract and a brief biographical statement by
March 15th to Cheryl Shell, PO Box 129, Palouse, WA 99161-0129, or e-mail
me at cherylshell@msn.com.
You must be a member of MLA by April 1st, 2002 to participate. Please
indicate your membership status in your cover letter.
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