rogram of the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress
7-14 April 1996
The Biltmore
Los Angeles

Funded by:

The International Shakespeare Association
The Shakespeare Association of America

A friend of the Shakespeare Association of America
The Houghton Mifflin Company
The British Council
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

And with the cooperation of:

California Plaza Presents
The Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
The Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Theater Center
The Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Western Region, The Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA), Inc.

The generous support of:

The Folger Institute
The Huntington Library

The kind sponsorship of:

California State Polytechnic University
Claremont College
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Harper Collins Publishers
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Lafayette College
Joseph & Gail Larson
Kenneth S. Rothwell
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Southern California
University of Minnesota
Vanderbilt University

The contributions of:

Baruch College
California State University, Fullerton 
California State University, San Bernardino
College of the Holy Cross
Drake University
Hope College
Montclair State University
Queens University
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Jose State University
Stanford University
St. Lawrence University
The Shakespeare Guild
UCLA, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies
University of British Columbia
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
University of Missouri
University of New Mexico
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of South Carolina, Columbia
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Western Ontario
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Yeshiva University

And the gifts of:

 the members of the Shakespeare Association of America

The International Shakespeare Association

President: Sir John Gielgud
Vice-Presidents:
Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool
S. Schoenbaum, University of Maryland
Hon. Vice-President: Levi Fox, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Chairman: Ann Jennalie Cook, Vanderbilt University
Vice-Chairman: Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Secretary: Roger Pringle, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Executive Committee:

Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University
Manuel Conejero, Shakespeare Foundation of Spain
Ann Jennalie Cook, Vanderbilt University
Werner Habicht, Universität Würzburg
Nancy Elizabeth Hodge, Shakespeare Association of America
Eldred Jones, University of Sierra Leone
Marie-Thérèse Jones-Davies, Université de Paris, Sorbonne
Nico Kiasashvili, Tbilisi State University
Jae-nam Kim, Shakespeare Association of Korea
Alexander Leggatt, University of Toronto
Derick Marsh, La Trobe University
Ruth Nevo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Roger Pringle, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Paolo Pugliatti, University of Florence
Zdenek Strbírny, Charles University, Prague
Yasunari Takahashi, Shakespeare Society of Japan
Robert Weimann, University of California, Irvine
Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

Congress Committee:

Chairman: Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Secretary: Roger Pringle, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Members:
Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool
Catherine Belsey, University of Wales, Cardiff
Alan Brissenden, University of Adelaide
Manuel Conejero, Shakespeare Foundation of Spain
Ann Jennalie Cook, Vanderbilt University
Werner Habicht, Universität Würzburg
Nancy Elizabeth Hodge, Shakespeare Association of America
Tetsuo Kishi, Kyoto University
Francois Laroque, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
Jill Levenson, University of Toronto
Jerzy Limon, University of Gdansk
Paola Pugliatti, University of Florence

The Shakespeare Association of America

President: David Bevington, University of Chicago
Vice President: Barbara Mowat, Folger Shakespeare Library
Executive Director: Nancy Elizabeth Hodge, Southern Methodist University
Administrative Assistant: Jill Bagwell, Southern Methodist University
Trustees:
David Bergeron, University of Kansas
A. R.. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles
Coppélia Kahn, Brown University
Arthur Kinney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bruce Smith, Georgetown University
Paul Werstine, King's College, University of Western Ontario
Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library

Congress Committee of the Shakespeare Association of America

Chair: Jill Levenson, University of Toronto
Head of Fundraising: Barry Gaines, University of New Mexico
Members:
Thomas Berger, St. Lawrence University
David Bevington, University of Chicago
A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles
William Carroll, Boston University
Kim Hall, Georgetown University
Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University
Nancy Elizabeth Hodge, Southern Methodist University
Russ McDonald, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Barbara Mowat, Folger Shakespeare Library
Lena Orlin, Folger Shakespeare Library
Jeanne Roberts, The American University
Bruce Smith, Georgetown University
Michael Warren, University of California, Santa Cruz

A Century of Shakespeare on Film:
Coordinator: Kenneth S. Rothwell, University of Vermont
Assistant Coordinator: Mary Courtney, Los Angeles

Local Arrangements Committee

Chair: Nancy Elizabeth Hodge, Southern Methodist University
Coordinators:
A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles
Ernest Dilahay, Los Angeles Theater Center
Louis Fantasia, Western region, The Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA), Inc.
David Rodes, Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA
Kay Stanton, California State University, Fullerton
Joseph Stodder, California State Polytechnic Institute
Lee Sweet, Los Angeles Theater Center
Nancy Vickers, University of Southern California

Membership and Registration

Coordinator: Jill Bagwell, Southern Methodist University
Members:
Lee Gibson, Southern Methodist University
Nanette Jaynes, Kennesaw State College
Rufel Ramos, Southern Methodist University
Tricia Stevens, University of Georgia
Patricia Worrall, Georgia Institute of Technology

General Information

The public may attend the five plenary sessions of the World Shakespeare Congress. Only registered delegates may attend the rest of the proceedings. Registration is open to members of the Shakespeare Association of America and to members of all other affiliates of the International Shakespeare Association. Late registration may be completed at the Registration Desk (the Heinsbergen Room of The Biltmore Hotel).

Delegates are asked to wear their badges to all sessions of the Congress in order to be assured of admission.

Tickets to the Huntington Library outing, Shakespeare Does Hollywood Gala, Congress Reception, Venus and Adonis, Alms for Oblivion, A Will of One's Own (Broads with Swords), Closing Reception, and the SAA/Malone Society Dance will be available at Registration.

Tickets to productions at the Los Angeles Theater Center (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Iago, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night) will be available at the "Will Call" window at the LATC Box Office, 514 South Spring Street, Los Angeles.

Tickets for tours will be available at the Spectrum Meeting Services Desk in the
Heinsbergen Room, Tuesday-Saturday, 9-13 April.

Location of Events:

The Congress will be held in the following locations:

1. The Biltmore Hotel (506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles)

Opening ceremony and main location for plenary sessions, short paper sessions, three forums, seminars, workshops, general meeting, Alms for Oblivion, Macbeth, Shakespeare Does Hollywood, Venus and Adonis, A Will of One's Own (Broads with Swords), Will and Testament (a life after death comedy), workshops with actors from ACTER and A Noise Within, Congress reception, and the SAA/Malone Society Dance.

2. The Hyatt Regency Hotel (711 South Hope Street, Los Angeles)

Location of forums IV and V, 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., Saturday, 13 April. 

3. The Huntington Library (1151 Oxford Road, San Marino)

4. The Mark Taper Auditorium, The Los Angeles Public Library (630 West 5th Street)

A Century of Shakespeare on Film on 9, 10, and 13 April. 

5. The Los Angeles Theater Center (514 South Spring Street)

Location for Iago, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream. 

6. The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center (corner of Grand Avenue and 1st Street)

Location for Los Angeles Philharmonic, guest artist Midori, on 10 April. 

7. The Watercourt at California Plaza (350 South Grand Avenue)

Location of closing reception on 13 April, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

8. The Museum of Contemporary Art (250 South Grand Avenue)

Location of gallery, open exclusively for World Congress delegates during and after closing reception, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturday, 13 April.

Seminars and Workshops

Discussions at the seminars and workshops are limited to members listed in the program. Workshops may not admit auditors; check individual listings. All other seminars and workshops permit registered delegates to attend as auditors.

Information and Registration Desk

Information and Registration Desks will be open daily in the Heinsbergen Room of The Biltmore Hotel.

Sunday, 7 April	5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Monday, 8 April	8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, 9 April	8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 10 April	8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, 11 April	9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday, 12 April	9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, 13 April	9:00 a.m. to noon

Exhibits

Exhibits by more than 16 publishers, artists, and book purveyors will be on display in the Heinsbergen Room Monday through Saturday during the hours posted above for the Information and Registration Desks.

Commemorative Posters and T-shirts

Two posters commemorate the 1996 World Congress. Posters and t-shirts by artist Kevin Chadwick (for $10.00 each) and mailing tubes (for $3 each) will be on sale in the Heinsbergen Room while supplies last.

Program

Sunday, 7 April

Registration Heinsbergen Room

Opening Ceremonies of the Sixth World Congress, and Alms for Oblivion, a dramatization of Shakespeare's Life, by Gregory Bell Biltmore Bowl

Presiding: 
Ann Jennalie Cook, Chair, International Shakespeare Association
Stanley Wells, Chair, International Shakespeare Association Congress Committee
Jill Levenson, Chair, Shakespeare Association of America Congress Committee
David Bevington, President, Shakespeare Association of America
Rudolf Habenicht, founder of the first World Shakespeare Congress
Nancy Elizabeth Hodge, Executive Director, Shakespeare Association of America

Monday, 8 April

Registration Heinsbergen Room
Book Exhibits Heinsbergen Room

Plenary Session I: Biltmore Bowl 
Speaker: Jane Smiley, Iowa State University - Shakespeare in Iceland
Presiding: Nancy Elizabeth Hodge, Southern Methodist University

Coffee Break sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company Bowl Foyer

Short Papers Session I:

A. Chair: Alessandro Serpieri, University of Florence Emerald Room

1. J. Leeds Barroll, University of Maryland, Baltimore County - "Historicizing the Early Stuart Accession"

2. Andreas Höfele, University of Heidelberg, Germany - "Twentieth-Century Intertextuality and the Reading of Shakespeare's Sources"

B. Chair: Jill Levenson, Trinity College, University of Toronto Crystal Room

1. Wilhelm Hortmann, University of Duisberg, Germany - "Post-modernism and After: Recent Shakespeare Productions in the Ruhr"

2. Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania - "Henry V as Prototype"

C. Chair: Jay Halio, University of Delaware Gold Room

1. Susan Snyder, Swarthmore College - " 'All we like sheep ...' "

2. Paul Werstine, King's College, University of Western Ontario - "Hypertext as Editorial Horizon"

3. Akihiro Yamada, Meisei University, Japan - "Editions of Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century"

D. Chair: Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India Regency Room

1. Linda Charnes, Indiana University, Bloomington - "William's Excellent Adventure: Shakespeare in the Age of Virtual History"

2. Sisir Kumar Das, University of Delhi, India - "Shakespeare and Post-Colonial India"

E. Chair: Margo Hendricks, University of California, Santa Cruz Tiffany Room

1. Lena Cowen Orlin, Folger Shakespeare Library - "The Second-Best Bed in the Language of Material Culture in Early Modem England"

2. Hanna Scolnicov, Tel Aviv University - "Breaches of Spatial Decorum: Private and Public Spaces in Shakespeare"

Monday, 8 April: 1:30 p.m. 

Buses leave for outing to the Huntington Library

Tea in the gardens of the Huntington Library, galleries open.
Exhibit: Drawings and Prints from the Extra-Illustrated Turner Shakespeare

Monday, 8 April: 6:00 to 7:15 p.m.

The Globe Theatre Restored: Uses and Questions Gold Room 
Chair: Hugh Richmond, University of California, Berkeley & Shakespeare Globe Centre, USA

Panelists: 
Andrew Gurr, University of Reading & International Shakespeare Globe Centre, U.K.
Dakin Matthews, Mark Taper Forum
Terence Hawkes, University of Wales, College of Cardiff
Louis Fantasia, Shakespeare Globe Centre (West)

Monday, 8 April: 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.

Macbeth, performed by ACTER Biltmore Bowl

Sarah Berger
Christopher Dale
Phillip Allen
Joanna Foster
Gareth Armstrong

Tuesday, 9 April

Breakfast for Variorum Editors Moroccan Room

Registration Heinsbergen Room
Book Exhibits Heinsbergen Room

Plenary Session II: Biltmore Bowl 
Speaker: Stanley Cavell, Harvard University - "Skepticism as Iconoclasm: the Saturation of the Shakespearean Text"
Presiding: David Bevington, University of Chicago

Tuesday, 9 April: 10:30 to 11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company Bowl Foyer

Short Paper Sessions II and Forum I

A. Chair: Alexander Leggatt, University of Toronto Crystal Room

1. Emrys Jones, New College, Oxford - "Reclaiming Early Shakespeare"

2. Jean-Pierre Maquerlot, Université de Rouen, France - "How to do Things with Words: Performative Rhetoric in Titus Andronicus"

B. Chair: Maik Hamburger, Deutsches Theater, Berlin Tiffany Room

1. István Géher, University College, Budapest - "Dogs and Gods In and Out of Office: an East European Approach to King Lear's Tragic Paradox of Authority" 

2. Dennis Kennedy, University of Dublin, Ireland - "Performing Inferiority: the Lesser Plays in the Twentieth Century"

C. Chair: Bernice W. Kliman, Nassau Community College Gold Room

1. Stephen M. Buhler, University of Nebraska, Lincoln - "Steve Martin's Shakespeare Survey: L.A. Story and the Culture of Anglophilia"

2. Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada - "Genesis Deconstructed in Branagh's Much Ado"  

D. Chair: Balz Engler, University of Basel, Switzerland Emerald Room

1. Jean E. Howard, Columbia University - "Gender and the National History Play, Now"

2. Paola Pugliatti, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy - "Shakespeare's Historicism: Visions and Revisions"

E. Forum: Piecing Out the Imperfections: Is English Renaissance Theatre Scholarship Relevant to 1990s Productions? Regency Room

"As You Stage It" 
Convenor: Alan Dessen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Leslie Thomson, Erindale College, University of Toronto - "The Meaning of Thunder and Lightning" 

Paul Nelsen, Marlboro College - "Positing Pillars: Controversy, Caution, and Historical ' Authenticity' at the New Globe"

Tuesday, 9 April: 12:45 to 2:15 p.m. 

Performance Workshop by ACTER Emerald Room

Shakespeare Film Festival begins Mark Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles Public Library

Workshop I: Teaching from and through Performance Tiffany Room 
Leaders:
Ralph Alan Cohen, James Madison University
Patrick Spottiswoode, International Globe Centre
Mary Hartman, Shakespeare and Company

Martha Andresen, Pomona College
Jody D. Brown, Ferrum College
Juliette M. Cunico, Bradley University
Annette Drew-Bear, Washington and Jefferson College
Joan Hartwig, University of Kentucky
Victoria Hayne, University of San Diego
Tove Ilsaas, University of Oslo, Norway
Cynthia Lewis, Davidson College
David McPherson, University of New Mexico
M. Bella Mirabella, New York University
Paul D. Nelsen, Marlboro College
Shela Pearl, Great Neck Schools
Arnold W. Preussner, Northeast Missouri State University
Edward L. Rocklin, California State Polytechnic University
Patricia P. Salomon, University of Findlay
Michael W. Shurgot, South Puget Sound Community College
Joseph H. Stodder, California State Polytechnic University
Ian Stuart, University of Southern California
Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan University
Bruce Young, Brigham Young University

Seminar I: The Uses of Shakespeare Gold Room 
Leaders: 
Balz Engler, University of Basel, Switzerland
John Drakakis, University of Stirling, Scotland

Susan Baker, University of Nevada
Richard Brucher, University of Maine, Orono
Ann C. Carver, National Kaohsiung Normal University, People's Republic
of China
Eugene England, Brigham Young University
Terence Hawkes, University of Wales, College of Cardiff
Niels Herold, Oakland University
Rhoda S. Kachuck, University of La Verne
Rosemary Kegl, University of Rochester
Dorothea Kehler, San Diego State University
Irena R. Makaryk, University of Ottawa
Ren Mingyao, Hangzhou University, People's Republic of China
Anand B. Patil, Goa University, India
Nicholas Radel, Furman University
Alexander Shurbanov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Kay Stanton, California State University, Fullerton
Koji Takao, Kyushu Dental College, Japan
Michael Yogev, University of Haifa

Seminar II: Defining and Constructing Geography in Shakespeare Roman Room 
Leaders:
Arthur Little, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel I. Vitkus, American University in Cairo

Robert Boerth, Stetson University
Helen Deese, University of California, Riverside
Christy Desmet, University of Georgia
Manfred Draudt, Universität Wien, Austria
Jean E. Feerick, University of Pennsylvania
Eric Griffin, University of Iowa
Sara Hanna, New Mexico Highlands University
Thomas W. G. Kullman, University of Heidelberg, Germany
John W. Mahon, Iona College
Randall Martin, University of New Brunswick
Linda McJannet, Bentley College
Avrahom Oz, University of Haifa & Tel Aviv University
Marsha S. Robinson, Kean College of New Jersey
Jutta Schamp, Philipps Universitat, Marburg, Germany
Kezia Vanmeter Sproat, Highbank Farm Peace Education Center,
Australia
Joanne Tompkins, La Trobe University, Australia
Susanne L. Wofford, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Seminar III: Twentieth-Century Women's Rewritings of Shakespeare Emerald Room
Leaders:
Marianne Novy, University of Pittsburgh
Gillian Beer, Clare Hall, Cambridge

Iska Alter, University of Hong Kong/Hofstra University
Rebecca Ann Bach, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Carla Dente Baschiera, University of Pisa, Italy
Diana Brydon, University of Guelph
Jennifer Lee Carrell, Harvard University
Peter Erickson, Clark Art Institute
Pilar Hidalgo, University of Málaga, Spain
Megan Isaac, Youngstown State University
Barbara 0. Mathieson, Southern Oregon State College
Phyllis McBride, Texas A&M University
Mary Janell Metzger, Western Washington University
Meghan Nieman, Queen's University, Kingston
Suzanne Raitt, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London
Jane Smiley, Iowa State University

Tuesday, 9 April: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Seminar IV: Social Division and Hierarchy Corinthian Room
Leaders:
James Siemon, Boston University
Richard Wilson, University of Lancaster/University of British Columbia

John Michael Archer, Columbia University
Jonathan Baldo, University of Rochester
A. L.. Beier, Illinois State University
Stephen S. Bennett, New York University
Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania
John D. Cox, Hope College
Raphael Falco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Edward Gieskes, Boston University
Grace R. W. Hall, Independent Scholar
Phebe Jensen, Utah State University
Theodore B. Leinwand, University of Maryland, College Park
Nina Levine, University of South Carolina
George Evans Light, Stanford University
Karen Robertson, Vassar College
David Harris Sacks, Reed College
William 0. Scott, University of Kansas
Robert Weimann, University of California, Irvine
Hugh Wilson, Texas Tech University

Tuesday, 9 April: 2:00 to  4:00 p.m.

Seminar V: Reconsidering Subjectivity Crystal Room
Leaders:
Valerie Wayne, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Akiko Kusunoki, Tokyo Women's Christian University

Alexandra Bennett, Brandeis University
Stephanie Chamberlain, Purdue University
Sara Eaton, North Central College
Hugh Grady, Beaver College
Judith Haber, Tufts University
Margo Hendricks, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dennis Dean Kezar, University of Virginia
Carol Neely, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Pye, Williams College
Martha Ronk, Occidental College
Yoko Takakuwa, University of Wales, Cardiff
Valerie Traub, Vanderbilt University
Wendy Wall, Northwestern University
Robin Headlam Wells, University of Hull

Performance: Hand in Hand to Hell- An Actor's Perspective on Richard III and Macbeth, Gareth Armstrong (ACTER) Biltmore Bowl

Tuesday, 9 April: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Workshop II: Feminist Pedagogy Regency Room 
Leaders:
Margaret Ferguson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Kate McLuskie, University of Southampton

Judith Clark, Stephens College
Celia R. Daileader, University of Alabama
Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lynn Enterline, Yale University
Nancy A. Gutierrez, Arizona State University
Diana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joan Hutton Landis, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Leanore Lieblein, McGill University
Cristina Malcolmson, Bates College
Fiona McNeill, Columbia University
Bryan Reynolds, Harvard University
Mary Beth Rose, The Newberry Library
Eve Sanders, University of California, Berkeley
Rhonda Lemke Sanford, University of Colorado
Lillian Schanfield, Barry University
Barbara Sebek, Colorado State University
Sara Jayne Steen, Montana State University
Jan Stirm, University of California, Los Angeles
Marta Straznicky, Queen's University, Ontario
Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami

Seminar VI: Acts of Collaboration: Shakespeare and Others Cordoban Room Leaders:
Lee Bliss, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gordon McMullan, King's College, London

Edward S. Brubaker, Franklin & Marshall College (Emeritus)
Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University
Nora Johnson, Swarthmore College
Torsten Kehler, McGill University
Pauline Kewes, University College, Oxford
Frederick Kiefer, University of Arizona
Campbell Lathey, New York State Library
Shen Lin, Central Drama Academy, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Bryan Loughrey, Roehampton Institute, London
Jeffrey Masten, Harvard University
Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Richard L. Nochimson, Yeshiva University, New York
Richard Proudfoot, King's College, London
Charles Whitworth, Université Paul Valéry, France

Seminar VII: Shakespeare and Queer Performativity Imperial A Room 
Leaders:
Gregory W. Bredbeck, University of California, Riverside
David Roman, University of Washington

Carolyn E. Brown, University of San Francisco
Ellen M. Caldwell, Kalamazoo College
Joseph R. Chaney, Indiana University, South Bend
Kate Chedgzoy, University of Warwick
Douglas E. Green, Augsburg College
Jan Lawson Hinely, University of Illinois
Eva Ildiko, General Secretary, The Shakespeare Kingdom House, Romania
Ian Burns Maclennan, University of Akron
J. Erasmus Nel, University of the North, South Africa
W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Tracey Sedinger, SUNY, Buffalo
Ian Smith, Lafayette College
Tamise Van Pelt, Idaho State University

Seminar VIII: Renewing King Lear Crystal Room 
Leaders:
R. A.. Foakes, University of California, Los Angeles
Dieter Mehl, University of Bonn, Germany

Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool
Adele Davidson, Kenyon College
Tibor Fabiny, Hungarian Shakespeare Committee
W. L. Godshalk, University of Cincinnati
Jay L. Halio, University of Delaware
Kathryn A. Hall, Florida State University/Tallahassee Community College
Michael Holahan, Southern Methodist University
Grace Ioppolo, Catholic University of America
Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Richard Knowles, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Alexander Leggatt, University of Toronto
Edward Pechter, Concordia University
Peggy Munoz Simonds, Independent Scholar
Audrey E. Stanley, University of California, Santa Cruz
Zdenek Strbírny, Charles University, Prague
Thomas 0. Treadwell, Roehampton Institute, London
Timothy R. VandeBrake, University of Alabama
Herb Weil, University of Manitoba

Seminar IX: Shakespeare Translation, 1971-1996 Mediterranean Room
Leaders:
Barry Gaines, University of New Mexico
Marga Munkelt, University of Munster, Germany

Mahmoud F. Al-Shetai, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Aleksei Vadimovich Bartoshevich, State Institute of Arts Research,
Moscow
B. K. Bhattacharya, University of Delhi, India
Mladen Engelsfeld, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Marta Gibinska, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Maik Hamburger, Deutsche Theater, Berlin
Yoshiko Kawachi, Kyorin University, Tokyo
Jae-nam Kim, Seoul, Korea
M. Alfredo Michel Modenessi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Avraham Oz, University of Haifa
Ching-Hei Perng, National Taiwan University, Republic of China
Fang Ping, Shanghai Normal University, People's Republic of China
José M. Ruiz, University of Valladolid, Spain
Akiko Sano, Teikyo Women's Junior College, Japan
Mason Y. H. Wang, Saginaw Valley State University

Seminar X: Shakespeare and Modern Commercial Culture Roman Room
Leaders:
Donald Hedrick, Kansas State University
Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego
Martin Prochazka, Charles University, Prague

Susan Bennett, University of Calgary
Stephen M. Buhler, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Richard Burt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
John J. Joughin, University of Central Lancashire
Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire
Felicia Londré, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Marta Conejero Lopez, The Shakespeare Foundation of Spain at the Oxford Centre, Spain
Ian Frederick Moulton, Columbia University
Attila Nagy, Jr., Editor, The Shakespeare Kingdom House, Romania
Sharon O'Dair, University of Alabama
Alicia Tomasian, University of Chicago
Daniel J. Watermeier, University of Toledo

Seminar XI: Performance Practice and Theory Corinthian Room
Leaders:
Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University
Carol Rutter, University of Warwick

Roger Apfelbaum, Shakespeare Institute, London
Eric Binnie, Hendrix College
David Brailow, Mckendree College
James C. Bulman, Allegheny College
Christopher Cobb, Yale University
Tony Dawson, University of British Columbia
George L. Geckle, University of South Carolina
Tony Howard, University of Warwick
Ric Knowles, University of Guelph
James Loehlin, Dartmouth College
Nicolaesçu Madalina, Bucharest University, Romania
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrate, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Ellen J. O'Brien, Guilford College
Marvin Rosenberg, University of California, Berkeley
G. B. Shand, Glendon College, York University
Ellen Summers, Hiram College
Fran Teague, University of Georgia
Jack Tulner, University of Manitoba
Clare-Marie Wall, California State University, Fresno
Amy K. Wegener, Northwestern University
Gary Jay Williams, Catholic University of America
W. B. Worthen, Northwestern University

 Shakespeare Does Hollywood Gala Biltmore Bowl

Congress Reception Crystal and Tiffany Rooms

Wednesday, 10 April

Breakfast for Arden Editors Moroccan Room

Registration Heinsbergen Room
Book Exhibits Heinsbergen Room

Short Paper Sessions III:

A. Chair: Jerzy Limon, University of Gdansk, Poland Regency Room

1 Marta Gibinska, Jagiellonian University, Poland - "More than Kott's Shakespeare"

2. James E. Robinson, University of Notre Dame - "Infinity in a Nutshell: Shakespeare Beyond the Absurd"

B. Chair: Susan Zimmerman, Queens College, CUNY Crystal Room

1. Marjorie Garber, Harvard University - "Shakespeare's Dogs"

2. Ruth Vanita, University of Delhi, India - " 'A woman more worth than any man': Mariological Memory in The Winter's Tale and Henry VIII"

C. Chair: Kate McLuskie, University of Southampton Gold Room

1. Susan Carlson, Iowa State University - "The Suffrage Shrew: the Shakespeare Festival, 'A Man's Play,' and New Women"

2. Penny Gay, University of Sydney, Australia - "Comedy as 'a kind of history': Interactions of Feminism and Post-Colonialism in Australian late Twentieth-Century 'Shrews' "

D. Chair: Anthony Davies, Victoria College, Jersey, C.I. Tiffany Room

1. Michael Hattaway, University of Sheffield - " 'I've processed my guilt': Shakespeare and the Movies"

2. Tetsuo Kishi, Kyoto University, Japan - "Shakespeare and the Musical"

Coffee Break sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company Bowl Foyer

Short Papers Session IV and Forum II

A. Chair: Inga-stina Ewbank, University of Leeds Tiffany Room

1. Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool - "Ambiguity and After: William Empson invents the Twentieth-century Shakespeare"

2. Clara Calvo, Universidad de Murcia, Spain - "Shakespeare and Twentieth-century Stylistics"

B. Chair: Eugene M. Waith, Yale University Gold Room

1. James C. Bulman, Allegheny College - "On Being Unfaithful to Shakespeare"

2. Carla Dente, Università di Pisa, Italy - "Re-inventing Ambiguity for the Twentieth Century: The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch"

3. Klaus Reichert, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany - "Shakespeare and James Joyce"

C. Chair: R. S. White, University of Western Australia Regency Room

1. John Gillies, La Trobe University, Australia - "Othello, Stanislavski and the Motives of Eloquence"

2. Alexei Bartoshevich, Russian Academy of Theater Arts, Moscow - "The Transformation of Russian 'Hamlets' "

3. Miki Suehiro, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan - "Beyond the Politics of Heterogeneity?: Teaching Othello in Japan"

D. Forum: "Shakespearean Biography: Problems and Developments" Crystal Room

Convenor: Ernst Honigmann, The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Katherine Duncan-Jones, Somerville College, Oxford
Park Honan, University of Leeds
Stanley Wells, University of Birmingham

Film Session for Seminar 13 Roman Room

Shakespeare Film Festival continues Mark Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles Public Library

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Forest of India - A Slide Presentation and Discussion for Seminar 16
Habib Tanvir, Naya Theatre Company, New Delhi Tiffany Room

Wednesday, 10 April: 2:00 to  4:00 p.m.

Seminar XII: The History and Practice of Psychoanalytic Criticism of Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century Crystal Room 
Leaders:
Janet Adelman, University of California, Berkeley
Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Joanna Montgomery Byles, University of Cyprus
Kyoko Fujise, Science University of Tokyo, Suwa College
Graham Hammill, Notre Dame University
Ursula Hehl, University of Cologne, Germany
Nanette Jaynes, Kennesaw State College
James H. Lake, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Rebecca Lemon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Yang Lingui, Northeast Normal University, People's Republic of China
Angela Locatelli, University of Bergamo, Italy
Cynthia Marshall, Rhodes College
Murray M. Schwartz, Claremont Graduate School
Meredith Skura, Rice University
Madelon Sprengnether, University of Minnesota
Lisa S. Starks, East Texas State University
David Willbern, SUNY, Buffalo
Deborah Willis, University of California, Riverside
Luo Zhiye, Nanchang University, People's Republic of China

Wednesday, 10 April: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. 

Seminar XIII: Japanese Performances, Adaptations and Co-productions of Shakespeare: The Values of Stylization and Localization Roman Room
Leaders:
Ian Carruthers, La Trobe University, Australia
Yasunari Takahashi, President, The Shakespeare Society of Japan, Showa Women's University, Japan

Tetsuo Anzai, Sophia University, Tokyo
Dennis Bartholomeusz, Monash University, Australia
Louis A. DeCatur, Ursinus College
John Gillies, La Trobe University, Australia
Paula M. von Loewenfeldt, Purdue University
W. Thomas MacCary, Hofstra University
Kazuko Matsuoka, Tokyo University of Medicine and Dentistry
Aya Mimura, Meiji University, Tokyo
Ryuta Minami, Nagoya University, Japan
Tetsuya Motohashi, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Ronnie Mulryne, University of Warwick
Michael Shapiro, University of Illinois, Urbana
Margaret Shewring, University of Warwick
Masae Suzuki, Osaka University of Commerce, Japan

Seminar XIV: Theatrical Enterprise in Early Modern England Emerald Room
Leaders: 
S. P. Cerasano, Colgate University
John Pitcher, St. John's College, Oxford

Diana B. Altegoer, Old Dominion University
Susan Campbell Anderson, Emory University
Mary Bly, Washington University
Charles Boyle, Ever Theater
Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland
Ann Jennalie Cook, Vanderbilt University
Andrew Hartley, Boston University
William Long, Independent Scholar, Brooklyn
Michael E. Mooney, University of New Orleans
Graham Parry, University of York
Jonathan Rittenhouse, Bishop's University, Quebec
Luke Wilson, Ohio State University
Paul Yachnin, University of British Columbia

Seminar XV: Shakespeare and Rhetoric Gold Room
Leaders:
J. M. Maguin, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France
Russ McDonald, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Robert B. Bennett, University of Delaware
Gideon Burton, Brigham Young University
Scott Crider, University of Dallas
Deborah T. Curren-Aquino, Independent Scholar
Patricia Dorval, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France
Jane Freeman, University of Toronto
Lee Gibson, Southern Methodist University
Pierre Iselin, Université de Paris 4, Sorbonne
C. S. Lim, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Nan Morrison, College of Charleston
James R. Nicholl, Western Carolina University
Victoria Silver, University of California, Irvine
John J. Tobin, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Gu Zhengkun, Beijing University, People's Republic of China
Auditor: Sang-oh Lee, Wonkwang University, South Korea

Seminar XVI: Post-Colonial Shakespeare Tiffany Room 
Leaders:
Martin Orkin, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Jyotsna Singh, Southern Methodist University

Richmond Barbour, Oregon State University
Emily Bartels, Rutgers University
Thomas L. Berger, St. Lawrence University
Jane S. Carducci, Winona State University
Thomas Cartelli, Muhlenberg College
Peter Davidhazi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Imtiaz Habib, Old Dominion University
David Wayne Johnson, University of Natal, South Africa
Philippa Kelly, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra
Joan Pong Linton, Indiana University
Joyce Green MacDonald, University of Kentucky
Kimiko Nishimura, Hunter College, CUNY
K. Venkata Reddy, Sri Krishnadevaraya University
Denis Salter, McGill University
Melanie Ann Stevenson, University of Toronto
Yukari Yoshihara, Chikushi Jogakuen Junior College for Women, Japan

Wednesday, 10 April: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Workshop III: Reconstructing Shakespearean Performance: Materials, Methods, and Implications of Stage History Corinthian Room (no auditors, please)
Leaders:
Lois Potter, University of Delaware
Jane Williamson, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Lorelle Browning, Pacific University
David Carnegie, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Sheila Cavanagh, Emory University
M J Chaffee, Westmar University
Louis A. De Catur, Ursinus College
Diana Devlin, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
Mary Judith Dunbar, Santa Clara University
William W. French, West Virginia University
Mary Howland, Golden West College
Patricia C. Kelly, University of Colorado, Boulder
Zsuzsanna Kiss, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Kate D. Levin, City College, CUNY
Megan Lloyd, University of Rio Grande
Caroline McManus, California State University
David L. Middleton, Trinity University
Louisa F. Newlin, Folger Shakespeare Library
Kathleen Patterson, University of California, Riverside
Hanna Scolnicov, Tel Aviv University

Seminar XVII: The Sonnets in the Twentieth Century Crystal Room
Leaders:
Heather Dubrow, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Inga-stina Ewbank, University of Leeds

Robert Crosman, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Katherine Dorothea Duncan-Jones, Somerville College, Oxford
Alexander Dunlop, Auburn University
Lars Engle, University of Tulsa
Robert F. Fleissner, Central State University
Gayle Gaskill, The College of St. Catherine
Frances L. Helphinstine, Morehead State University
Gisela Koerber, Shakespeare Society of Germany & Bonn University
Richard A. Levin, Kensington, California
Ian MacInnes, Albion College
Robert L. Montgomery, University of California, Irvine
J. Srihari Rao, Pt Ravishanker Shukla University, India
Lawrence F. Rhu, University of South Carolina
Shen Ruan, Wuhan University, People's Republic of China
Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan
Bruce Smith, Georgetown University
M. L. Stapleton, Stephen F. Austin State University
Joyce Sutphen, University of Minnesota, Gustavus Adolphus College
Helen Vendler, Harvard University
George T. Wright, University of Minnesota

Seminar XVIII: Twentieth-Century Theories of Language and the Interpretation of Shakespeare Emerald Room
Leaders:
Keir Elam, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
William Carroll, Boston University

Maria Carrig, Loyola University, Chicago
William Flesch, Brandeis University
Richard Halpern, University of Colorado, Boulder
Linc Kesler, Oregon State University
Barbara Kreps, Universita di Pisa, Italy
Ishrat Lindblad, Stockholm University, Sweden
Lynne Magnusson, University of Waterloo
David Mikics, University of Houston
Clara Mucci, Universita 'G. D'Annunzio', Italy
Dorothy E. Nameri, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Stanley Stewart, University of California, Riverside
James W. Stone, University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, 10 April: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Seminar XIX: Shakespeare's Culture and the Twentieth Century: Tradition v. Modernity Regency Room
Leaders:
Naomi C. Liebler, Montclair State University
Michael Neill, University of Auckland, New Zealand

David I. Baker, University of Hawaii
Michael D. Bristol, McGill University
J. Anthony Burton, Independent Scholar
Jonathan Gil Harris, Ithaca College
Shweta Khanna, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India
Richard Levin, SUNY, Stony Brook
Alex Newell, Concordia University
Gail Kern Paster, George Washington University
Linda Levy Peck, University of Rochester
Kay L. Pilzer, Vanderbilt University
Sophie Tomlinson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Peter Womack, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Seminar XX: Editing Shakespeare Tiffany Room
Leaders:
Barbara A. Mowat, The Folger Shakespeare Library
Ann Thompson, Roehampton Institute, London

David Bevington, University of Chicago
Charles Edelman, Edith Cowan University
Charles R. Forker, Indiana University
David Greetham, CUNY Graduate School
James Hirsh, Georgia State University
E. A. J. Honigmann, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Retired
Trevor H. Howard-Hill, University of South Carolina
Maurice Hunt, Baylor University
Kathleen Irace, University of California, Los Angeles
Yuji Kaneko, Chuo University, Japan
Richard F. Kennedy, St. Thomas University
Bernice W. Kliman, Nassau Community College
Laurie E. Maguire, University of Ottawa
F. H. Mares, University of Adelaide, Retired-Honorary
Philip C. McGuire, Michigan State University
Paul Werstine, King's College, University of Western Ontario
Camille S. Williams, Brigham Young University
Auditor: Eugene M. Waith, Yale University

Seminar XXI: Shakespeare and National Traditions Roman Room
Leaders:
Manfred Pfister, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
R. S. White, University of Western Australia

Laura Raidonis Bates, University of Chicago
Shen Bo-qun, Tianjin University, People's Republic of China
Vikram Chopra, University of Delhi, India
Derek Cohen, Norman Bethune College, York University
Marlene Soares dos Santos, Centro de Estudos Shakespeareanos, Brazil
Marc Geisler, Western Washington University
Marta Gibinska, Jagiellonian University, Poland
J. Lawrence Guntner, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Ali Hussain, University of Illinois, Chicago
Lali Kereselidze, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Yong Li Lan, National University of Singapore
Olav Lausund, University of Oslo, Norway
Emil Sirbulescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Heinz 0. Zimmermann, Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Seminar XXII: Reformatting the Bard: Shakespeare on Television and Video Athenian Room
Leaders:
Robert F. Willson, Jr., University of Missouri, Kansas City
Michele Willems, University of Rouen, France

Hardy Merrill Cook, Bowie State University
Roy Dawson, Southeast Missouri State University
David G. Hale, SUNY, Brockport
Judith M. Kennedy, St. Thomas University, Fredericton
James P. Lusardi, Lafayette College
Michael Mullin, University of Illinois, Urbana
June Schlueter, Lafayette College
Robert E. Wood, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nancy Glass Wright, Austin Peay State University

Cash Bar Rendezvous Court

Performance: Venus and Adonis, a dramatization by Ben Stewart Gold Room by arrangement with Western Region, Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA), Inc.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, performed by Will and Company Los Angeles Theater Center

C. Bernard Jackson's Iago  - Los Angeles Theater Center

Measure for Measure, performed by Oasis Theatre Company Los Angeles Theater Center

Twelfth Night, performed by Cornerstone Theatre Company Los Angeles Theater Center

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, guest artist Midori The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center

Thursday, 11 April

Registration Heinsbergen Room
Book Exhibits Heinsbergen Room

Plenary Session III: Biltmore Bowl
Speaker: Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford - "Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century: Finding A Way Out"
Presiding: Ann Jennalie Cook, Vanderbilt University

Coffee Break sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company Bowl Foyer

Plenary Session IV: Biltmore Bowl
Speaker: Christopher Ricks, Boston University - "Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett"
Presiding: Yasunari Takahashi, Showa Women's University, Japan

Workshop IV: Figuring Difference: Media in the Shakespeare Classroom Athenian Room (no auditors, please)
Leaders:
Sharon A. Beehler, Montana State University
Alan Armstrong, Southern Oregon State College

Deborah G. Burks, Ohio State University
Walter W. Cannon, Central College
Michael J. Collins, Georgetown University
Nancy Carrick, University of Redlands
Bryan Crockett, Loyola College
Katherine James, Barton College
Richard Saez, CUNY, College of Staten Island
Frances A. Shirley, Wheaton College

Seminar XXIII: Household Dramas Corinthian Room
Leaders:
Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University, Belfast
Frances E. Dolan, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Laila Abdalla, McGill University
Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford
Ann C. Christensen, University of Houston
Karen Cunningham, Florida State University
Mario DiGangi, Indiana University
Richard Helgerson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hiroko Ito, Shakespeare Association of Japan
Kathryn Jacobs, East Texas State University
Lauren Kehoe, Boston University
Mary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois University
Simon Morgan-Russell, Bowling Green State University
Jill Orofino, Boston University
Daryl Palmer, University of Akron
Kristen Elizabeth Poole, Harvard University
Louis Charles Stagg, University of Memphis
Barbara Traister, Lehigh University
Eric Wilson, Harvard University

Thursday, 11 April: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Seminar XXIV: Fictions of Shakespeare's Life Gold Room
Leaders:
Michael Dobson, Roehampton Institute, London
Nicola J. Watson, London [in absentia]

Julia Briggs, De Montfort University, Leicester
Paul Budra, Simon Fraser University
Susanne Collier, California State University, Northridge
Peter Cummings, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Lois Feuer, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Paul J. C. M. Franssen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Werner Habicht, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Andrew Hannas, Purdue University
Gillian Murray Kendall, Smith College
Alan Levitan, Brandeis University
Susannah Brietz Monta, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fiona Robertson, Durham University
Katarina Stein, Free University, Berlin
Peter Eva Zsuzsanna, The Shakespeare Kingdom House, Romania

Seminar XXV: Thou Met'st With Things Dying, I With Things New-born": Theatre History in the Third Millennium, A. D. Emerald Room
Leaders:
Andrew Gurr, University of Reading
Roslyn L. Knutson, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Melissa Aaron, University of Wisconsin, Madison
John Astington, Erindale College, University of Toronto
Cyndia Susan Clegg, Pepperdine University
Alan Dessen, University of North Carolina
Richard Dutton, University of Lancaster
Tim Fitzpatrick, University of Sydney, Australia
Barbara Freedman, Tufts University
Penny Gay, University of Sydney, Australia
Peter H. Greenfield, University of Puget Sound
William Ingram, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Anne Lancashire, University College, University of Toronto
Jerzy Limon, University of Gdansk, Poland
John C. Meagher, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
Alan Nelson, University of California, Berkeley
M. Ann Reed, University of St. Thomas
Peter R. Roberts, University of Kent
Alan Somerset, University of Western Ontario
Charles Whitney, University of Nevada

Seminar XXVI: The Shakespearean Texts in the Electronic Age Roman Room
Leaders:
Michael Warren, University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter Holland, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Mark A. Anderson, SUNY, Brockport
Paul Baltes, Brigham Young University
Michael R. Best, University of Victoria
A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles
Jean R. Brink, Arizona State University
Stephen A. Cohen, University of California, Irvine
Ward Elliott, CMC, Claremont, California
Randall Ingram, Davidson College
Stephen Matsuba, York University
H. Joachim Neuhaus, Universität Münster, Germany
Christopher T. Nielson, Widener University
Laurie E. Osborne, Colby College
Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada, Reno
Randall Robinson, Michigan State University
Patricia B. Worrall, Georgia Institute of Technology

Thursday, 11 April: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Seminar XXVII: Shakespeare and the Recovery of Women's History Biltmore Room
Leaders:
Linda Woodbridge, Pennsylvania State University
Juliet Fleming, Cambridge University

Kathryn Murphy Anderson, Boston University
Karen Bamford, Mount Allison University
Ann Blake, La Trobe University, Australia
Julie D. Campbell, Texas A&M University
Martha J. Craig, Purdue University
Susan Frye, University of Wyoming
Loreen L. Giese, Ohio University
Earlene Hammock, University of New Mexico
Donna J. Long, Florida State University
Kathryn M. Moncrief, University of Iowa
Lena Cowen Orlin, Folger Shakespeare Library
Helen Ostovich, McMaster University
Karen Worley Pirnie, University of Alabama
Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania
Sasha Roberts, Roehampton Institute, London
Tricia M. Stevens, University of Georgia
Poonam Trivedi, University of Delhi, India
Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library

Seminar XXVIII: Shakespeare and Intertextuality: Twentieth-Century Studies of the Sources Crystal Room
Leaders:
Louise George Clubb, University of California, Berkeley
Alessandro Serpieri, University of Florence, Italy

Hardin Aasand, Dickinson State University
Frances N. Barasch, Baruch College, CUNY
Frank Nicholas Clary, St. Michael's College
Claudia Corti, University of Florence, Italy
Stephen Greenblatt, University of California, Berkeley
Joan Marx, Palo Alto, California
Monica Matei-Chesnoiu, University "Ovidius" of Constanta, Romania
Marcia A. McDonald, Belmont University
Pamela Mellott, University of California, Riverside
Robert Miola, Loyola College, Maryland
Giovanna Mochi, University of Udine, Italy
Vicent Montalt, The Shakespeare Foundation of Spain
Lee (Anne) Rappold, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hugh M. Richmond, University of California, Berkeley
Leah Scragg, University of Manchester

Seminar XXIX: Heterogeneous Classrooms Athenian Room
Leaders:
Miranda Johnson-Haddad, Howard University
Colin Gardner, University of Natal, South Africa

Zhang Chong, Nanjing University, People's Republic of China
Leslie Dunn, Vassar College
Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Qi-xin He, Beijing Foreign Studies, People's Republic of China
Rafat Karim, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Cecil Manona, Rhodes University, South Africa
Rolf 0. Müller, Fanny-Leicht-Gymnasium, Stuttgart, Germany
Susan O'Malley, Kingsborough, CUNY
Chris Roark, John Carroll University
Edward T. Washington, Mansfield University
R L Widmann, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ramona Wray, Trinity College, Dublin

Seminar XXX: Feminist Appropriations of Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century Emerald Room
Leaders: 
Coppélia Kahn, Brown University
Ania Loomba, Stanford, University

Tammy Clewell, Florida State University
Shalini Teresa Fernandez, University of Malaya
Michael D. Friedman, University of Scranton
Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada
Kim Hall, Georgetown University
Michael Hall, Virginia Wesleyan College
Emi Hamana, St. Margaret's College, Japan
David Laird, California State University, Los Angeles
Sikandar Lal, Shivaji College, University of Delhi
Judiana Lawrence, St. John Fisher College
Elise Marks, University of California, Berkeley / Ohio Wesleyan University
Ninian Mellamphy, University of Western Ontario
Rachana Sachdev, Susquehanna University
Brandie R. Siegfried, Brigham Young University

Seminar XXXI: The Framing and Reframing of the Bard: A Century of Shakespeare in the Movies Gold Room
Leaders:
Kenneth S. Rothwell, University of Vermont
Anthony Davies, Victoria College, Jersey, C.I.

Yoshio Arai, Komazawa University / Shakespeare Society of Japan
Dorothy Cook, Central Connecticut State University
Wayne Cook, Central Connecticut State University
Samuel Crowl, Ohio University
Kirk L. Hendershott-Kraetzer, Michigan State University
Kathy Howlett, Northeastern University
Alfred Jacobs, Menlo College, Emeritus
Patricia Lennox, Graduate Center, CUNY
Mary Z. Maher, University of Arizona
Thomas A. Pendleton The Shakespeare Newsletter / Iona College
Mark Sandona, Hood College
R. Thomas Simone, University of Vermont

Seminar XXXII: Shakespeare After Marx Tiffany Room
Leaders:
Kiernan Ryan, University of Cambridge
Richard Waswo, Université de Genève, Switzerland

Liu Bingshan, Henan University, People's Republic of China
Barbara Correll, Cornell University
Helga Geyer-Ryan, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
David Hawkes, Lehigh University
Peter Holbrook, University of Queensland, Australia
Steve Mentz, Yale University
Scott C. Shershow, Miami University
Molly Smith, University of Aberdeen
Jerald W. Spotswood, University of Alabama
Zheng Tu-sheng, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Scott Wilson, Lancaster University
Meng Xianqiang, Northeast Normal University, People's Republic of
China

Seminar XXXIII: Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century Director: 'Populist' Shakespeare Cordoban Room
Leaders:
Susan Spector, Baruch College, CUNY
Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania

Sun Fuliang, Shanghai Drama Academy, People's Republic of China
Necla Gikigil, Ankara, Turkey
Hyon-U Lee, Seoul, South Korea
JoAnn B. Little, Pima Community College, University of Arizona
Jean Peterson, Bucknell University
Bill Ranch, Cornerstone Theatre
Margarida G. Rauen, University of Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Brazil
Barbara Rosen, University of Connecticut
William Rosen, University of Connecticut
Juhani Rudanko, University of Tampere, Finland
Hassell B. Sledd, Slippery Rock University
Suzanne Westfall, Lafayette College

Cash Bar Rendezvous Court

Performance: Alms for Oblivion, a dramatization of Shakespeare's life, by Gregory Bell Gold Room by arrangement with Western Region, Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA), Inc.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, performed by Will and Company Los Angeles Theater Center

C. Bernard Jackson's Iago Los Angeles Theater Center

Measure for Measure, performed by Oasis Theatre Company Los Angeles Theater Center

Twelfth Night, performed by Cornerstone Theatre Company Los Angeles Theater Center

Friday, 12 April

Graduate Student Coffee sponsored by the Shakespeare Association of America Roman Room

Registration Heinsbergen Room
Book Exhibits Heinsbergen Room

Plenary Session V: Biltmore Bowl
Speaker: Janet Suzman, London - "South Africa in Othello"
Presiding: Roger Pringle, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Coffee Break sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company Bowl Foyer

General Meeting of the International Shakespeare Association Biltmore Bowl

Short Sessions

A. World Shakespeare Bibliography meeting Tiffany Room

B. "Shakespeare Discoveries?"
Chair: Arthur Kinney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Crystal Room

1. Donald W. Foster, Vassar College - "Another Shakespeare: the 'Funeral Elegy' for William Peter"

2. Alan H. Nelson, University of California, Berkeley - "Sir George Buc Consults W. Shakespeare: a 'Lost' Document Resurfaces"

Short Paper Sessions V and Forum III

A. Chair:
J. M. Maguin, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France Emerald Room

1. Yves Peyré, Université de Toulouse le Mireil, France - " 'Iris's Scarf' and 'Ariachne's Broken Woof': Shakespeare's mythology in the Twentieth Century"

2. Habib Tanvir, Naya Theatre Company, New Delhi - "Elements of Elizabethan Theatre in Indian Tradition"

B. Chair: 
Tetsuo Anzai, Sophia University, Tokyo Crystal Room

1. Mary Ann McGrail, The University Professors, Boston University - "The Source of Hamlet"

2. Graham Bradshaw, Kyoto University, Japan
Kaori Ashizu, St. Michael, Kyoto University, Japan - "On Reading Hamlet in Japan"

C. Chair: Zdenek Strbírny, Charles University, Prague Tiffany Room

1. Thomas Sorge, Berlin, Germany - "The German Shakespeare at the Beginning of the Second World War"

2. Tibor Fabiny, Hungarian Shakespeare Committee, Budapest - "King Lear's Significance in Post-Communist Hungary"

D. Forum: Theories of Shakespearean Character Gold Room
Convenor: Terence Hawkes, University of Wales, College of Cardiff

Christy Desmet, University of Georgia 
William Dodd, University of Sienna, Italy

As You Like It, a lecture / demonstration on its staging, by A Noise Within Regency Room

Shakespeare and New Media Biltmore Bowl
Coordinator: Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

1. "The Voyager Macbeth"

A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Cohen, Calliope Inc.

2. "The Shakespeare Electronic Archive" The Digital Facsimile Project: Folger Folios and the all-copy Hamlet quarto collection

Michael Warren, University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Catalog and Database of Hamlet Art and Illustration
Alan Young, Acadia University, Nova Scotia

3. The Chadwyck-Healey Full Text Database of Shakespeare Editions and Adaptations

Michael Dobson, Roehampton Institute, London

4. The Castle Rock Othello CD

Arlene Stiebel, California State University, Northridge
Tammy Glover, Castle Rock Entertainment

5. The Open University/BBC King Lear CD

Lizbeth Goodman, Open University

Cash Bar Rendezvous Court

Performance: A Will of One's Own (Broads with Swords) presented by the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company Gold Room by arrangement with Western Region, Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA), Inc.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, performed by Will and Company Los Angeles Theater Center

C. Bernard Jackson's Iago Los Angeles Theater Center

Measure for Measure, performed by Oasis Theatre Company Los Angeles Theater Center

Twelfth Night, performed by Cornerstone Theatre Company Los Angeles Theater Center

Saturday, 13 April

Registration Heinsbergen Room
Book Exhibits Heinsbergen Room

Short Paper Sessions VI and Forum IV

A. Chair: Ann Thompson, Roehampton Institute, London Biltmore Bowl

1. Catherine Belsey, University of Wales, Cardiff - "Family Values and The Winter's Tale"

2. Maigorzata Grzegorzewska, University of Warsaw, Poland - "Wooing in Festival Terms: Sonneteering Lovers, Rock and Blues"

B. Chair: Dieter Mehl, University of Bonn, Germany Gold Room

1. Alan Brissenden, University of Adelaide, Australia - "Twentieth-century Australian 'Dreams' "

2. Günter Walch, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany - "Writing Between the Lines: Aesopian Analogies"

C. Chair: Werner Habicht, University of Würzburg, Germany Corinthian Room

1. Robert Weimann, University of California, Irvine - " 'Author's Pen' versus 'Actor's Voice?' Revaluations of Performance in Shakespeare's Theatre"

2. Mariangela Tempera, Universita degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy - "False Endings: Staging the Opening Scene of Titus Andronicus"

D. Forum:  "Intercultural Shakespeare: Appropriation, Assimilation and Performance, with Particular Reference to China and Japan" Manhattan A and B, Hyatt Regency
Convenor: Ronnie Mulryne, University of Warwick

Sarah Bryant-Bertail, University of Washington
Ruru Li, University of Leeds
Kazuko Matsuoka, Tokyo University of Medicine & Dentistry

Shakespeare Film Festival continues Mark Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles Public Library

Coffee Break sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company South Galleria

Short Papers Session VII and Forum V

A. Chair: Michael Neill, University of Auckland, New Zealand Biltmore Bowl

1. Jonathan Baldo, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester - "Stages of Forgetfulness: Shakespeare's History Plays" 

2. Karen Newman, Brown University - "Re-reading Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the Fin-de-Siècle"

3. Edward Pechter, Concordia College - " 'Why Should We Call Her Whore?' Bianca in Othello"

B. Chair: Michael Warren, University of California, Santa Cruz Corinthian Room

1. Mitsuru Kamachi, Kyoto University, Japan - "Shakespeare's Holographic Imagination"

2. Gary Taylor, University of Alabama - "Feelinged"

C. Chair: Julia Briggs, De Montfort University, Leicester Gold Room

1. Barbara Bowen, Queens College, CUNY - "Dark Ladies, White Women: Aemilia Lanyer and the Invention of White Womanhood"

2. Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University - "Representing Women in Shakespeare and Feminism"

D. Forum: "Whose Shakespeare? Some Twentieth-century Agendas" Manhattan A and B, Hyatt Regency
Convenor: Bruce Smith, Georgetown University

Michael Bristol, McGill University
Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
Mario DiGangi, Indiana University
Alan Mandell, Actor, Los Angeles
Marion O'Connor, University of Kent

A Midsummer Night's Dream, performed by Will and Company Los Angeles Theater Center

C. Bernard Jackson's Iago Los Angeles Theater Center

Measure For Measure, performed by Oasis Theatre Company Los Angeles Theater Center

Twelfth Night, performed by Cornerstone Theatre Company Los Angeles Theater Center

Performance: Will and Testament (a life after death comedy) by Fred Stone Biltmore Bowl

Closing Reception The Watercourt at California Plaza and the galleries of the Museum of Contemporary Art

SAA/Malone Society Dance with music by the Los Angeles Hey Nonny Nonnies Emerald Room

Personal Contributions to World Shakespeare Congress, Los Angeles

A Century of Shakespeare On Screen

Location of screenings: The Mark Taber Auditorium, Los Angeles Public Library. 

Seating limited to 225 persons. Admission is free. Seating will be on a non-reserved basis.

Tuesday, April 9, 1996

1:00 - 2:03 p.m.	King John GB 1899
	Julius Caesar USA 1908
	King Lear USA 1909
	A Midsummer Night's Dream USA 1909
	Twelfth Night USA 1910
	Richard III GB 1911
2:10 - 3:48 p.m.	Othello Germany 1922
3:55 - 4:25 p.m.	Macbeth UK/Russia 1992
4:30 - 6:31 p.m.	Julius Caesar USA 1953
6:36 - 7:06 p.m.	Romeo and Juliet UK/Russia 1992
7:10 - 9:08 p.m.	Hamlet: A Drama of Vengeance Germany 1920

Wednesday, April 10, 1996

1:00 - 1:50 p.m.	King Lear USA 1916
1:55 - 3:35 p.m.	Twelfth Night USSR 1955
3:40 - 5:55 p.m.	The Bad Sleep Well (Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru) Japan 1960
6:00 - 7:34 p.m.	Romeu e Julieta Brazil 1980
7:40 - 9:15 p.m.	The Tempest [... as seen through the eyes of Derek Jarman] GB 1980

Saturday, April 13, 1996

11:00 a.m. - Noon	The Taming of the Shrew USA 1950
12:05 - 1:36 p.m.	The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice Morocco/Italy 1952
1:41 - 2:11 p.m.	A Midsummer Night's Dream UK/Russia 1992
2:15 - 3:40 p.m.	A Midsummer Night's Dream Spain/GB 1984
3:45 - 5:18 p.m.	King Lear USA/Switzerland 1987