Where kings dream up epics, poets are there to say how they should run the city. In England, Geoffrey of Monmouth tells the story of the first British towns, Troia Nova, and Arthur’s City of the Legions which will serve as blueprint for all the...  [mehr lesen]

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...  [mehr lesen]

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...  [mehr lesen]

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...  [mehr lesen]

Join the British Shakespeare Association in Denmark from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th April 2010 for Hamlet at Elsinore Performance and Workshops, a unique three-day Hamlet event at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore, Denmark - the play's main location. The...  [mehr lesen]

The University of Toronto's Early Modern Studies Seminar (EMSS) seeks papers for its upcoming graduate conference, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind”: Love and Sight in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature, to be held...  [mehr lesen]

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.  [mehr lesen]