CFP: (dis)junctions: Stage Beauty (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)
Stage Beauty: "A woman playing a woman? What's the
trick in that?"

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions: theory reloaded at the
University of California Riverside’s 12th Annual
Humanities Conference on April 8-9, 2005.

Richard Eyre’s adaptation of Jeffrey Hatcher’s
Compleat Female Stage Beauty introduces the reader to
a number of interesting characters, while continuously
playing with the history of Restoration theater. How
does this Shakespearean adaptation deal with any of
the following themes:
Performance/Performativity
Gender
Identity
History
Sexuality
Theatricality

One page abstracts should be e-mailed to
tina_stavropoulos_at_yahoo.com by January 7, 2005 (text
in the body of the message; please no attachments).
The submissions should be no longer than 250 words.

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/

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