CFP: Re-viewing Shakespeare Reviewing: Scholarship, Commentary or Journalism? (UK) (6/20/03; BSA, 8/29/03-8/31/03)

From: John Joughin (jjoughin@uclan.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 12:44:52 EDT


CFP: Re-viewing Shakespeare (6/20/03; 8/29/03-8/31/03)

Second call for papers for seminar session on 'Re-viewing Shakespeare
Reviewing: Scholarship, Commentary or Journalism?' at the British
Shakespeare Association Conference to be held at DeMontfort University,
Leicester, UK, August 29-31 www.britishshakespeare.ws

This seminar would welcome papers on a variety of topics related to the
theme. These topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the
history of journalism and its relation to Shakespearean reviewing;
individual Shakespearean reviewers; communities of interpretation; the
function and effect of critical anonymity and/or identity in reviewing; the
economics of theatre reviewing; critical strategies for reading
Shakespearean performance; ideological (e.g. gender, class, nationalism,
race) subtexts and undercurrents in Shakespearean journalistic reception;
the history of the practice of theatre criticism and the status of the
critic; review anthologies and the conversion of journalism into book form;
the rise of academic reviewing; the relationship between performance
institutions (the RSC, the Globe, Northern Broadsides) and reviewers;
newspaper politics and Shakespearean reception; the effect of reviews on
performance; the relationships between actors and critics.

Deadline for abstract (200 words): 20 June, 2003

Contact: Peter J. Smith and Paul Prescott
peter.smith@ntu.ac.uk ; pushkinp@yahoo.co.uk

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