CFP: Shakespeare and the Institution (UK) (no deadline noted; 8/29/03-8/31/03)

Call for Papers:
Shakespeare and the Institution
(British Shakespeare Association Conference, De Montfort University 29th -
31st August)

> Unlike any other writer, Shakespeare has become an institution which
> variously represents a conservative social order, Englishness, and a guide
> to human nature. But how exactly did one Elizabethan/Jacobean writer, who
> largely plagiarized other people's plot lines, gain such a hold not just
> on the national psyche but on that of Western culture as a whole? This
> seminar will explore how Shakespeare the man has become Shakespeare the
> institution by focusing on the use that that has been made of his work in
> the past and the use that continues to be made of it in schools,
> universities and the culture at large. Can Shakespeare simultaneously be
> the embodiment of orthodoxy and a means of challenging received opinion?
>
        Contact details: Deborah Cartmell djc_at_dmu.ac.uk
                                Gary Day gday_at_dmu.ac.uk

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