rogram Schedule

THURSDAY, 10 APRIL

12:00 noon to 5:30 p.m.

1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Dressing old words new:
Evaluating Recent Critical Approaches to the Sonnets
Chair :LARS ENGLE (University of Tulsa)

LYNNE MAGNUSSON (Queen 's University) "Speak Fair Words, or Else Be Mute" : Speech Pragmatics and Social Relations in Shakespeare's Sonnets

HEATHER DUBROW (University of Wisconsin,Madison) "I am not I" : Redefining Speaker and Listener in Shakespeare's Sonnets

DAVID SCHALKWYK (University of Cape Town) Love and Duty in welfth Night and the Sonnets

Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance Culture
Chair: DIANA HENDERSON (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

RIC KNOWLES (University of Guelph) Encoding/Decoding: Towards a Theory of Shakespearean Production and Reception

BARBARA HODGDON (University of Michigan) When Will Met Bert, Anton and Sam (in Oklahoma)

W.B.WORTHEN (University of California,Berkeley) Print Forms and Performance

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Contemporary Shakespearean Performances and their Audiences
Seminar Leader: SUSAN BENNETT (University of Calgary) and CHRISTIE CARSON (Royal Holloway University of London)

Visualizing Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: LEE BLISS (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Recalling and Reconstructing Elizabeth I
Seminar Leaders: KATHERINE CONWAY (Wheaton College) and ELIZABETH H. HAGEMAN (University of New Hampshire)

Foreign Exchanges on the Early Modern Stage
Seminar Leader: LAWRENCE DANSON (Princeton University)

Final Say: Dying Like a Woman
Seminar Leader: DON FOSTER (Vassar College)

Shakespearean Seductions
Seminar Leader: STEPHEN GUY-BRAY (University of Calgary)

Performance and Self-Reference on the Early Modern Stage Seminar
Leader: NORA JOHNSON (Swarthmore College)

Two Problem Comedies
Seminar Leaders: JOHN W. MAHON (Iona College) and RICHARD L. NOCHIMSON (Yeshiva University)

Pulp Drama and Sensationalism
Seminar Leader: JESSICA SLIGHTS (Acadia University)

Close Reading without Readings (1)
Workshop Leader: STEPHEN BOOTH (University of California,Berkeley)

Commedia Dell'Arte and The Merchant of Venice: Combining Genre in Editing and Performing Shakespeare
Workshop Leaders: ELLEN LOUDON (Edge Hill College) and GABRIELLE MALCOLM (Edge Hill College)

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

OPENING RECEPTION

In the Palm Court,the Crystal Ballroom, and the Tea Lobby of the Empress Hotel.

Hosted by University of Victoria President David Turpin.

Open to all registrants for the 31st Annual Meeting and their guests.

FRIDAY, 11 APRIL

8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PLENARY SESSION

How to do Things with Shakespeare: The Ethics of Reading and Performance
Chair: DAVID LEE MILLER (University of Kentucky)
Respondent: KENNETH GROSS (University of Rochester)

HARRY BERGER, JR. (University of California, Santa Cruz) Iago's Platea Strut: How to do Things with Othello and Desdemona

MARSHALL GROSSMAN (University of Maryland, College Park) Hamlet and Me: Reading, Watching, and Transference

MILLA RIGGIO (Trinity College) Crossing Cultural Swords: Intersecting Ethics in Shakespeare

11:00 a.m.to 12:30 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Re-Imagining Acoustics: Shakespeare, Sound, and Audience
Chair: LESLIE C. DUNN (Vassar College)

GINA BLOOM (Lawrence University) "Take Heed How You Hear" : Agency and Audience

LINDA PHYLLIS AUSTERN (Northwestern University) Shakespeare in the Early Music Revival

MICHELA CALORE (University of Reading) and CHRISTOPHER R. WILSON (University of Reading) "And speak... in many sorts of music" : Music Choices in Productions of the New Globe Theatre

Shakespeare Across the Pacific
Chair: RURU LI (University of Leeds)

ZHANG CHONG (Nanjing University) Translating Shakespeare Across Language and Culture

SHEN LIN (Central Academy of Drama, Beijing) Really Useful Shakespeare

JOHN GILLIES (La Trobe University) Style and Stylisation in "Asian" Shakespeare

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

ANNUAL LUNCHEON

Presiding: SUSANNE L. WOFFORD (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Open to all registrants for the 31st Annual Meeting.
to purchase a ticket for your guest's luncheon, see "Conference Registration."

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Legal Fictions / Legal Frictions: Theater and Law
Seminar Leader: CYNDIA SUSAN CLEGG (Pepperdine University)

Shakespeare and Historicist Formalism
Seminar Leader: STEPHEN COHEN (Central Connecticut State University)

1603 and the Business of Theater
Seminar Leader: RICHARD DUTTON (Lancaster University)

Marston and Dekker: Renaissance Writers, Then and Now
Seminar Leaders: EWAN FERNIE (Queen's University, Belfast) and WILLIAM KERWIN (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Elizabeth I and Performance
Seminar Leader: SUSAN FRYE (University of Wyoming)

Con-Founding the Senses in Shakespeare
Seminar Leaders: LOWELL GALLAGHER (UCLA) and SHANKAR RAMAN (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Commodities and Commodification in Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: HUGH GRADY (Arcadia University)

Shakespeare and the Movies
Seminar Leader: PATRICIA LENNOX (The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University)

"Who's In, Who's Out" : Canonizing Early Modern Women's Writing
Seminar Leader: CHRISTINA LUCKYJ (Dalhousie University)

Shakespeare and the Bonds of Service
Seminar Leaders: MICHAEL NEILL (University of Auckland) and LINDA LEVY PECK (George Washington University)

Close Reading without Readings (2)
Workshop Leader: STEPHEN BOOTH (University of California, Berkeley)

Re / Designing Courses of Action: Exploring the Shakespeare Class as Pedagogic Scene
Workshop Leader: EDWARD L. ROCKLIN (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

CONCERT

The University of Victoria Chamber Singers
To purchase ticket(s), see "Conference Registration." Limited seating is available.

8:00 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

A Dream in Hanoi
Post-screening discussion with LORELLE BROWNING and ALLAN NAUS. Open to all registrants for the 31st Annual Meeting and their guests.

SATURDAY, 12 APRIL

8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WORKSHOP FOR AREA TEACHERS
Workshop Leader: JANET FIELD-PICKERING (Folger Shakespeare Library)

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

The Ancient Constitution and Early Modern Drama
Chair: HOWARD MARCHITELLO (Texas A&M University)

CONSTANCE JORDAN (Claremont Graduate University) Contesting the Monarch's Power: Property Rights in the Second Tetralogy

REBECCA LEMON (University of Southern California) "Stay where our laws do " : Law and Conscience in Jonson

PETER C. HERMAN (San Diego State University)

Forms of Illegitimacy: Knowledge, Language, and Offspring
Open Paper Session
Chair: TETSUO KISHI (Shakespeare Society of Japan)

SCOTT MAISANO (Indiana University, Bloomington) Shakespeare's Last Act, or, The Galilean Tragedy of Cymbeline

KRISTEN BROOKE (St. Lawrence University) Gentling Jessica: Racialization and the Matter of Blood in The Merchant of Venice

NICHOLAS CRAWFORD (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) Conceiving Bastard Language in Shakespeare and his World

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

"Her Majesty's hand was also in the Coppie" : Queen Elizabeth and the Circulation of Power
Chair: SUSAN P. CERASANO (Colgate University)

GRACE IOPPOLO (University of Reading) "To Yrself nott my wordes but my soule speaketh" : The Earl of Essex's Literary Construction of Elizabeth in the Hulton Letters

PETER BEAL (Sotheby's London) "For the peace of the whole realm" : Elizabeth's Execution Warrants for Mary, Queen of Scots, the Duke of Norfolk, and the Earl of Essex

STEVEN W. MAY (Georgetown College) Elizabeth Prays for the Living and the Dead

Renaissance Animalities
Chair: EDWARD BERRY (University of Victoria)

REBECCA ANN BACH (University of Alabama) "We are beasts in all but white integrity" : Animals and Renaissance Sexuality

LARA BOVILSKY (Washington University) Renaissance Animalia

LAURIE SHANNON (Duke University) The Anti-Cultural Cur, from Shakespeare's Crab to Thomas Browne's Dog-starre

2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

PAPER SESSIONS

Monitoring Electronic Shakespeare
Chair: MICHAEL BEST (University of Victoria)
A Short History of the Short History of Electronic Shakespeares

SONIA MASSAI (University of Surrey) Redefining the Role of the Editor for the Electronic Medium: A New Internet Shakespeare Edition of The Raigne of King Edward the Third

JONATHAN HOPE (Strathclyde University) and MICHAEL WITMORE (Carnegie Mellon University) The Statistical Study of Shakespeare's Genres

PAUL WERSTINE (University of Western Ontario) Compositor XML: Electronic New Bibliography

To Be Potential: Renaissance Drama and Psychoanalysis
Chair: PAUL YACHNIN (McGill University)

JULIA REINHARD LUPTON (University of California, Irvine) Psychoanalysis and Citizenship

GRAHAM HAMMILL (University of Notre Dame) Time for Marlowe

CYNTHIA MARSHALL (Rhodes College) "The Sleeping and the Dead" : Fantasy, Potentiality, and Cymbeline

4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

"You can never bring in a wall" : Shakespeare and Theater Technology
Seminar Leader: MELISSA D.AARON (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

A Cunning Instrument Restrung: Shakespeare in Asian Tongues
Seminar Leader: TIMOTHY BILLINGS (Middlebury College)

Drama in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Seminar Leader: DOUGLAS A. BROOKS (Texas A&M University)

War as Context in Film and Stage Productions of Shakespeare
Seminar Leader: SUSANNE COLLIER (California State University, Northridge)

Interrogating Shakespeare's Sonnets
Seminar Leaders: PAUL EDMONDSON (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) and STANLEY WELLS (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Catastrophe: Risk and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Seminar Leaders: DAVID GLIMP (University of Miami) and JULIAN YATES (University of Delaware)

Form and Desire on the Early Modern Stage
Seminar Leader: JUDITH HABER (Tufts University)

Staging Shakespeare's Contemporaries
Seminar Leader: ANDREW JAMES HARTLEY (University of West Georgia)

"Race," Gender, and Science in Early Modern England
Seminar Leader: CRISTINA MALCOLMSON (Bates College)

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England
Seminar Leaders: KATE MCPHERSON (Utah Valley State College) and KATE MONCRIEF (Washington College)

Cross-Cultural Shakespeare Collaborations: Local and Global Approaches
Workshop Leaders: LORELLE BROWNING (Pacific University and Vietnam-America Theatre Exchange) and ALLEN NAUSE (Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland, and Vietnam-America Theatre Exchange)

Using the Compendium of Renaissance Drama in the Classroom
Workshop Leader: BRIAN JAY CORRIGAN (North Georgia State University)

7:15 p.m.

FILM SCREENING

The Maori Merchant of Venice
Film discussion with Director DON SELWYN.
Open to all registrants for the 31st Annual Meeting and their guests.

8:00 p.m.

CONCERT

Lutenist NIGEL NORTH and Tenor ALAN BENNETT
St.Andrew's Presbyterian Church

10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

THE DANCE

with the LEBEAU-PETERSON BAND Sponsored by the Shakespeare Association of America and the Malone Society. To purchase ticket(s), see "Conference Registration."