he Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
1989 Meeting
April 13-15
The Four Seasons
Austin, Texas

Executive Secretary: Nancy Elizabeth Hodge, Vanderbilt University
Administrative Assistants:
Christopher Frongillo, Vanderbilt University
Lee Moore, Vanderbilt, University
President: Anne Lancashire, University of Toronto
Vice President: Carol Neely, Southern Illinois University
Trustees:
Maurice Charney, Rutgers University
Alan Dessen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Alexander Leggatt, University of Toronto
Scott McMillin, Cornell University
Barbara Mowat, Folger Shakespeare Library
Jeanne Roberts, American University
Steven Urkowitz, City University of New York

Host:

University of Texas at Austin

Co-host: 

Texas A&M University

Sponsors:

The College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico
The College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English, University of Oklahoma
The College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Department of English, University of Houston
The Department of English, Trinity University
The Department of English, University of Arkansas
Louisiana State University, Shreveport
New Mexico State University
Texas A&I University
The Therese Kayser Lindsey Chair of Literature of the Department of English, Southwest Texas State University
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Contributors: 

Dean Robert King and his staff, University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts
John Chalmers
Ray Daum
Sally Leach
Thomas Staley
James Stroud
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas
W. O. S. Sutherland, Chairman, University of Texas, Department of English
Michael Meadows, University of Texas Development Office
Annette Ramey, University of Texas Ex-Students' Association
Pecan Street Lager, Courtesy of Davis Tucker, President, The Old City Brewing Company, Austin
Ste. Genevieve Rose of Ruby Cabernet, compliments of Dr. Hans Mark, Chancellor of the University of Texas System
JoAnn Jentz, Julia Mellenbruch, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Michael Mullin, University of Illinois Foundation
John R. Hood, University of Texas Performing Arts Center
Jay Hodgson, KTBC-TV
Ian Willison, Department of English, University of Texas
William Worthen, Department of English, University of Texas
Danny Johnson, Department of Music, University of Texas Early Music Ensemble
Shakespeare at Winedale

Local Arrangements Committee:

Leader: John W. Velz, University of Texas
James B. Ayres, University of Texas
Joseph Candido, University of Arkansas
Evan Carton, University of Texas
Doris A. Clatanoff, Texas A & I University
Earl L. Dachslager, University of Houston
Norman K. and Cora Farmer, University of Texas
Barry Gaines, University of New Mexico
Sara L. Hanna, New Mexico State University
Roslyn L. Knutson, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
James H. Lake, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
David L. Middleton, Trinity University, San Antonio
Clifford J. Ronan, Southwest Texas State University
John P. Rumrich, University of Texas
James J. Yoch, University of Oklahoma

Program:

Thursday, 13 April

Registrations Ballroom Foyer
Book Exhibits Ballroom Foyer

Trustees' Coffee Ballroom Foyer

I Lecture: Shakespeare and American Humor Grand Ballroom, Salon D
Moderator:  Jeanne Roberts, American University
Speaker:  Hamlin Hill, Texas A&M University

II Study Seminar: Renaissance Paleography Plaza Suite 316
no auditors, please
Leader:  Laetitia Yeandle, Folger Shakespeare Library

Margaret Arnold, University of Kansas
William Carroll, Boston University
Roy Dawson, Southeast Missouri State University
James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University
W. L. Godshalk, University of Cincinnati
Jean Klene, St. Mary's College
David McPherson, University of New Mexico
Josephine Roberts, Louisiana State University
Sara Jayne Steen, Montana Stale University
William Stewart, University of Tampa
Alden Vaughan, Columbia University

III Seminar: Henry VIII: History, Historiography, and Theater Waterloo
Leader:  Iska Alter, Hofstra University

Ellen Caldwell, Kalamazoo College
Catherine Chopp, Ohio State University
Susan Krantz, University of New Orleans
Stuart Kurland, Duquesne University
Campbell Lathey, Albany, New York
Nan Morrison, College of Charleston
Kim Noling, Le Moyne College
Nicholas Radel, Furman University
Hugh Richmond, University of California, Berkeley
Marsha Robinson, Kean College, New Jersey
Alan Somerset, University of Western Ontario
Matthew Wikander, University of Toledo
Eugene Waith, Yale University

IV Seminar: Shakespeare's Aliens San Jacinto Ballroom, West
Leader:  Edward Berry, University of Victoria

James R. Andreas, Drury College
Emily C. Bartels, Rutgers University
Lynda E. Boose, Dartmouth College
Jean R. Brink, Arizona State University
James C. Bulman, Allegheny College
Paul Cantor, University of Virginia
Thomas Cartelli, Muhlenberg College
Dorothy Cook, Central Connecticut State University
Mary Davison, McGill University
Louis A. De Catur, Ursinus College
Sara Hanna, New Mexico State University
Ejner J. Jensen, University of Michigan
Gloria Johnson, University of Oregon
Barbara Kachur, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Dorothea Kehler, San Diego State University
Alexander Leggatt, University of Toronto
Ninian Mellamphy, University of Western Ontario

V Seminar: Legal Institutions and Practices in Shakespeare's Drama and Age Little Colony
Leader:  A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles

Craig Bernthal, California State University, Fresno
Ann Baynes Coiro, Rutgers University
Brian Jay Corrigan, Tulane University
Karen Cunningham, Florida State University
W. R. Elton, Graduate School, City University of New York
Janet Halley, U.S. Court of Appeals, Nashville
Donna Hamilton, University of Maryland, College Park
Richard Helgerson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Elaine Kalmar, University of North Iowa
Nicholas Knight, University of Missouri, Rolla
Joseph Lenz, Drake University
F. J. Levy, University of Washington
Katharine Eisaman Maus, University of Virginia
Edward Tucker, The Citadel

VI Seminar: The Application of Film Theory to Shakespeare on Screen Plaza Suite 416
Leader:  Lorne Buchman, University of California, Berkeley

Anthony Davies, University of Fort Hare
Helen Deese, Mount St. Mary's College
Peter Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara Freedman, St. John's University
Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California, Santa Cruz
C. W. Griffin, Virginia Commonwealth University
Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University
Kenneth Rothwell, University of Vermont
Steve Vineberg, College of the Holy Cross
Susan Wing, University of Hawaii at Manoa

VII Seminar: New Variorum Shakespeare Stone's Crossing
Leader:  Robert K. Turner, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Karen T. Bjelland, Alexandria, Virginia
Carol J. Carlisle, University of South Carolina
Scott Colley, Hampden-Sydney College
David George, Urbana University, Ohio
Bryan N. S. Gooch, University of Victoria
Virginia Haas, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
T. H. Howard-Hill, University of South Carolina
Grace Ioppolo, Huntington Library
Susan H. May, Longwood College
William C. McAvoy, St. Louis University
Peter Pauls, University of Winnipeg
S. W. Reid, Kent State University
Judith Rogers, Northern Illinois University
Michael Steppat, University of Texas at Austin
D. Jerry White, Central Missouri State University
G. W. Williams, Duke University
William Proctor Williams, Northern Illinois University

VIII Seminar: Materialist - Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare San Jacinto Ballroom, East
Leader:  Valerie Wayne, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Catherine Belsey, University College, Cardiff
Barbara Bono, State University of New York, Buffalo
Doug Bruster, Harvard University
Sara Eaton, Northwest Missouri State University
Stephen Foley, Brown University
Hugh Grady, Beaver College
Jean Howard, Columbia University
Carol Leventen, Adrian College
Tina Malcolmson, Yale University
Catherine Milsum, University of British Columbia
Marianne Novy, University of Pittsburg
Gail Kern Paster, George Washington University
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami
Ann Thompson, University of Liverpool
R L Widmann, University of Colorado at Boulder
Marion Wynne-Davies, University of Liverpool

Buses depart for Peter Flawn Academic Center

Reception Fourth Floor, Peter Flawn Academic Center
Presiding: Dean Robert King
Host: The University of Texas at Austin
Exhibit: "Shakespeare For All Time" Treasures from the Pforzheimer Collection and Special Collections of the University of Texas
Entertainment: The Early Music Ensemble, Danny Johnson, Director

Buses depart for the Four Seasons

Friday, 14 April

Registration Ballroom Foyer
Book Exhibits Ballroom Foyer

IX Plenary Session: Close Reading Revisited Grand Ballroom, Salons A and B
Moderator: Russ McDonald, University of Rochester
Stephen Booth, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Parker, Stanford University
Edward Snow, Rice University

Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer

X Session: Theory and Practice of Criticism Grand Ballroom, Salon A
Moderator:  Miriam Gilbert, University of Iowa

1. Hugh H. Grady, Beaver College - "Mapping the Paradigm Shift in Shakespeare Studies"

2. W. B. Worthen, University of Texas at Austin - "Text Against Performance? The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism"

XI Session: Sexual and Verbal Intercourses San Jacinto Ballroom
Moderator:  Michael Warren, University of California, Santa Cruz

1. Sharon Beehler, Montana State University - " 'Discourse of Reason': Hamlet and the Dialogics of Drama"

2. Linda Charnes, University of California, Berkeley - " 'Closet Wars': Myths of Desire and the Material Subject in Troilus and Cressida"

Luncheon Grand Ballroom, Salons B, C, and D
Presiding: Anne Lancashire, University of Toronto

XII Study Seminar: The Meters of Shakespeare's Plays Plaza Suite 316
no auditors, please
Leader:  George Wright, University of Minnesota

Deborah T. Curren-Aquino, Silver Spring, Maryland
Christy Desmet, University of Georgia
William Flesch, Brandeis University
Gabrielle Bernhard Jackson, Temple University
David Kranz, Dickinson College
Alan Levitan, Brandeis University
William T. Liston, Ball State University
Stephen X. Mead, St. Martin's College
Ellen J. O'Brien, Guilford College
John 0. Thompson, University of Liverpool
Charles Whitney, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

XIII Seminar: Shakespeare's Aliens San Jacinto Ballroom, West
Leader:  Edward Berry, University of Victoria

Anne F. Miller, New York City Board of Education
Laura Mooneyham, Trinity University
Michael Neill, Folger Shakespeare Library
David Pollard, Nazareth College of Rochester
Richard L. Poss, University of Arizona
Constance C. Relihan, University of Minnesota
John Rooks, Georgia Southern College
Jyotsna Singh, Colgate University
Janet C. Stavropoulos, Gettysburg College
Jane Tammany, King Saud University
Hari H. N. Vishwanadha, Westlake School
Judith Weil, University of Manitoba
Camille S. Williams, Brigham Young University
James J. Yoch, Jr., University of Oklahoma

XIV Seminar: Teaching Shakespeare's Late Plays Little Colony
Leader:  Mary Judith Dunbar, University of Santa Clara

Kathleen Campbell, George Mason University
Miriam Gilbert, University of Iowa
Grace R. W. Hall, Westwood, Massachusetts
Joan Hartwig, University of Kentucky
Douglas Lanier, Allegheny College
Judiana Lawrence, St. John Fisher College
Philip McGuire, Michigan State University
Derah Myers, Vanderbilt University
Douglas Peterson, Michigan State University
Michael Shurgot, South Puget Sound Community College
Audrey Stanley, University of California, Santa Cruz
Herbert Weil Jr., University of Manitoba
Joseph Westland, Northeastern University
Bruce Young, Brigham Young University
Harry Zuger, Christ School

XV Seminar: Renaissance Sexualities Waterloo
Leader:  Donald Foster, Vassar College

Richard H. Abrams, University of Southern Maine
Steve Brown, George Mason University
Marjorie Garber, Harvard University
Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University
Martin Green, Washington, D.C.
T. Walter Herbert, Jr., Southwestern University
Laurie Osborne, Oakland University
Joseph Pequigney, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Marie A. Plasse, Boston University
Anne E. Russell, Trent University
Kay Stanton, California State University, Fullerton
Margaret M. Sullivan, University of California, Los Angeles
Valerie Traub, Swarthmore College

XVI Seminar: Phenomenology of Revenge San Jacinto Ballroom East
Leader:  Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Linda Anderson, Virginia Technical Institute
G. Beiner, University of Virginia
Richard T. Brucher, University of Maine, Orono
Joan Byles, State University College at Cortland, SUNY
Maurice Charney, Rutgers University
Richard Corum, Dartmouth College
H. R. Coursen, Bowdoin College
Sherry Bevins Darrell, University of Southern Indiana
Eugene England, Brigham Young University
Charles Hallett, Fordham University
Terence Hawkes, University of Wales
Gillian Murray Kendall, Smith College
Joseph E. Kramer, Bryn Mawr College
Richard Levin, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Arthur Lee Little, Jr., Carleton College
Garnett Lloyd Mack, Virginia State University
Lalita Pandit, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Karen Robertson, Vassar College
Craig Thomas, Harvard University
Joseph B. Wagner, Kent State University, Stark Campus
Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles

XVII Seminar: Theater Historians as Storytellers Stone's Crossing
Leader:  Roslyn Knutson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

John Astington, University of Toronto
Herbert Berry, University of Saskatchewan
Robert Burkhart, Eastern Kentucky University
S. P. Cerasano, Colgate University
Reginald Foakes, University of California, Los Angeles
Franklin Hildy, University of Georgia
William Ingram, University of Michigan
Arthur Kinney, University of Massachusetts
Anne Lancashire, University of Toronto
William Long, AMS Press
Scott McMillin, Cornell University
Alan Nelson, University of California, Berkeley
Frances Teague, University of Georgia
Marvin Thompson, St. Cloud State University
Paul Werstine, King's College, University of Western Ontario

XVIII Seminar: Shakespeare and the American Actor Plaza Suite 416
Leader:  Cary Mazer, University of Pennsylvania

Earl L. Dachslager, University of Houston
Michael Mullin, University of Illinois
Susan Spector, Baruch College, CUNY
Virginia Vaughan, Clark University
Sonja Werner, Madison Area Technical College
James Woodsall, New York, New York

Cash Bar Ballroom Foyer
Sponsor: The Shakespeare Globe Centre
Chair, Advisory Board: Hugh Richmond, University of California, Berkeley
Vice Chairman: Maurice Charney, Rutgers University

Buses depart for Driftwood, Texas

Barbeque at the Salt Lick

Saturday, 15 April

Information Ballroom Foyer
Book Exhibits Ballroom Foyer

XIX Session: Rewriting Shakespeare's Historical Context Grand Ballroom, Salon A
Moderator: Barry Gaines, University of New Mexico

1. Leeds Barroll, University of Maryland, Baltimore County - "Privileged Biography: Marginal Shakespeare"

2. Peter Blayney, Folger Shakespeare Library - "A Groatsworth of Evidence: The Historical Context of Rewriting"

3. Ann Jennalie Cook, Vanderbilt University - "Looking Again in Obvious Places"

XX Session: Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis Grand Ballroom, Salons B and C
Moderator:  Richard Wheeler, University of Illinois, Urbana

1. David Wilbern, State University of New York, Buffalo - "The Famous Analyses of Henry IV: Review and Preview"

2. Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz - "Psychoanalysis, Discursive Conflicts, and Plot"

3. Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether, University of Minnesota - "Beyond Psychoanalysis"

Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer

XXI Session: Early Elizabethan 1558-1590 Grand Ballroom, Salon A
Moderator:  David Bevington, University of Chicago

1. Inga-Stina Ewbank, University of Leeds - "George Peele and the History Play"

2. David Scott Kastan, Columbia University - "'Clownes should speake disorderlye': Mongrel Tragicomedy and the Unitary State"

3. Gail Kern Paster, George Washington University - "Covering His Ass: The Scatological Imperatives of Gammer Gurton's Needle"

4. Bruce Smith, Georgetown University - "Some Lists, Some Sums, and a Summary"

XXII Session: Canon Father Grand Ballroom, Salons B and C
Moderator:  Anthony B. Dawson, University of British Columbia
Speakers: 
Dympna Callaghan, Bowling Green State University
Mary Lamb, Southern Illinois University
R. B. Parker, University of Toronto
Don E. Wayne, University of California, San Diego

XXIII Session: Shakespeare and the Visual Arts Grand Ballroom, Salons A, B, and C
Moderator:  Elizabeth Hageman, University of New Hampshire

1. John Dixon Hunt, Dumbarton Oaks - "Perspective and the Paragone in Shakespeare's Later Plays"

2. Stephen Orgel, Stanford University - "Counterfeit Presentments: The Economies of Shakespearean Representation "

XXIV Workshop: "O, What Learning is!": Strategies for Teaching Romeo and Juliet Plaza Suite 316
no auditors, please
Leader:  Joan Ozark Holmer, Georgetown University

John Breslin, S. J., Georgetown University
Andrew Browning, St. Albans School
Ann Carver, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Michael Collins, Georgetown University
David Dickerson, Seattle Pacific University
Lisa Gim, Brown University
Cynthia Lewis, Davidson College
Joyce MacDonald, Washington and Lee University
Cynthia Marshall, Rhodes College
Lawrence Francis McNamee, East Texas State University
Louisa Foulke Newlin, Folger Shakespeare Library
Margaret Loftus Ranald, Queens College, City University of New York

XXV Workshop: Shakespearean Improvisation San Jacinto Ballroom, West
no auditors, please
Leaders: 
Michael Shapiro, University of Illinois, Urbana
Petrea Burchard, Los Angeles, California

Susan Baker, University of Nevada, Reno
Annette Drew-Bear, Washington and Jefferson College
Paul Gaudet, University of Western Ontario
Martha Grise, Eastern Kentucky University
Lorraine Helms, Simmons College
Edward Herson, College of the Holy Cross
Suzanne Jeffers, Lenoir-Rhyne College
Joan Langley, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Leanore Lieblein, McGill University
James Lusardi, Lafayette College
Albert Misseldine, Adrian College
James R. Nicholl, Western Carolina University
Nicholas Ranson, University of Akron
Randal Robinson, Michigan State University
Edward Rocklin, California State Polytechnic University
Thomas Russell, Clemson University
Meredith Anne Skura, Rice University
William W. E. Slights, University of Saskatchewan
Joseph Stoddard, California State Polytechnic University

XXVI Seminar: Casting Shakespeare's Plays: The Doubling of Actors in Shakespearean Drama: Evidence, Problems, Prospects Waterloo
Leader:  Thomas Berger, St. Lawrence University

Alan Armstrong, Southern Oregon State College
Eric Binnie, Northeast Missouri State University
Edward Brubaker, Franklin and Marshall College
Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland
Ralph Alan Cohen, James Madison University
Alan C. Dessen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chris Hassel, Vanderbilt University
Skiles Howard, Columbia University
T. J. King, City College of New York
Laurie Maguire, University of Ottawa
Margaret Maurer, Colgate University
Michael E. Mooney, University of New Orleans
Richard Proudfoot, King's College, University of London
June Schlueter, Lafayette College

XXVII Seminar: Renaissance Sexualities San Jacinto Ballroom, East
Leader: Donald Foster, Vassar College

Frances K. Barasch, Baruch College, CUNY
Sheila Cavanagh, Emory University
Peter Cummings, Hobart and William Smith College
Lars Engle, University of Tulsa
Charles Frey, University of Washington
Evelyn Gajowski, University of California, Santa Cruz
Douglas E. Green, Augsburg College
Michael Hall, Virginia Wesleyan College
Douglas Howard, St. John Fisher College
Coppélia Kahn, Brown University
R. L. Kesler, Oregon State University
Jacques Lezra, Yale University
Barbara H. Traister, Lehigh University

XXVIII Seminar: Shakespeare's Soliloquies and Their Audiences Little Colony
Leader:  Barbara Palmer, Chatham College

Earl John Clark, Northeastern Illinois University
Nancy Cluck, University of Texas at Dallas
Richard Finkelstein, State University of New York, Geneseo
Mary Z. Maher, University of Arizona
John W. Mahon, Iona College
Marilyn F. Moriarty, University of California, Irvine
Dorothy E. Nameri, Israel Institute of Technology
Richard L. Nochimson, Yeshiva University
James Schiffer, Hampden-Sydney College
John Wasson, Washington State University
Suzanne Westfall, Lafayette College
Helen M. Whall, Holy Cross College
Robert F. Willson, Jr., University of Missouri, Kansas City
Donald Wineke, Wichita State University

XXIX Seminar: Shakespeare for an Age: The Eighteenth Century Plaza Suite 416
Leader:  Joseph G. Price, Pennsylvania State University

Douglas Bruster, Harvard University
Irene G. Dash, Hunter College, CUNY
Michael Dobson, Harvard University
Joan Fitch, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus
Antonia Forster, University of Akron
Susan Green, Virginia Tech
Yoshiko Kawachi, Kyorin University
Ron Klingspon, Nipissing College
Jean Marsden, University of Connecticut
Margaret Maurer, Colgate University
Diana Akers Rhoads, Hampden-Sydney College
Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stephen C. Rowan, Seattle University
Frances A. Shirley, Wheaton College
Helene Solheim, University of Washington
Thomas Wheeler, University of Tennessee
Simon Williams, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jane Williamson, University of Missouri

XXX Seminar: Rethinking the Henry VI Plays Stones' Crossing
Leader:  Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania

Michael D. Bristol, McGill University
Dorothy H. Brown, Loyola University
Walter Cannon, Central College
Nancy A. Gutierrez, Arizona State University
Guy Hamel, University of Toronto
Theodora A. Jankowski, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Frederick Kiefer, University of Arizona
Naomi C. Liebler, Montclair State College
Leah S. Marcus, University of Texas at Austin
Randall Martin, Simon Fraser University
Mary Ann McGrail, Kenyon College
David Riggs, Stanford University
Lawrence V. Ryan, Stanford University
Louis Charles Stagg, Memphis State University
Steven Urkowitz, City College of New York
Marilyn L. Williamson, Wayne State University
Deborah Willis, University of California, Riverside

Reception Ballroom Foyer
Host: Texas A&M University

Cash Bar Ballroom Foyer

SAA / Malone Society Dance at Scholz's Bier Garten
taxi service; shuttle available from The Four Seasons until midnight