The Ninth World Shakespeare Congress in Prague will mark the next phase in a journey through four continents.  Beginning in Vancouver, this international conference has travelled every five years since 1971 to share Shakespearian scholarship,...  [read more]

In his 2007 Shakespeare Survey article, John Jowett commented that "the extent to which scholarly electronic editions will transform Shakespeare study remains to be seen," and that "at the end of the twentieth century" the role...  [read more]

In what ways does Shakespeare imagine the natural world in his plays and poems, and how do those depictions set the stage on which his characters act? In a tragedy like King Lear, Shakespeare envisions a nature that can strip away the layers and...  [read more]

Vom 22. bis zum 25. April 2010 werden sich die Mitglieder der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft zu den Shakespeare-Tagen in Bochum, Kulturhauptstadt Europas im Rahmen von RUHR.2010, versammeln.  [read more]

Confirmed keynote speakers: Colin Burrow (Oxford), Patrick Cheney (Penn State), Helen Cooper (Cambridge), Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania), Robert Edwards (Penn State), Alastair Minnis (Yale)
Authorship has come to the forefront of medieval and early...  [read more]

Figurative and literal ugliness has a history. This panel seeks to explore all things ugly about all things related to Shakespeare, e.g., bodies, manners, spectators, readers, kitsch. What constitutes the ugly? What are the ethics of reconstituting...  [read more]

We would like to invite proposals for 20 minute papers on the topic of ‘Love and Death’.
Long before Freud and the contest between Eros and Thanatos there was, of course, the story of Romeo and Juliet and all its analogues. There was the...  [read more]