British Shakespeare Association Biennial Conference 2005
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Seminar - Back to the Stained Field, or,
Alternative Political Shakespeares and the Question of Theory
Saturday 3rd September 2005, 11.30am-1.00pm,
Bedson Teaching Centre LG37
Participants | Call for Papers
Participants
Convenor - James Loxley,
University of Edinburgh
Convenor - Mark Robson,
Nottingham University
Bridget Escolme, University of Leeds
Hugh Grady
Simon Malpas, University of Edinburgh
Cary DiPietro, Kyoto University
Alan Sinfield, Sussex University
Call for Papers
Below is the original Call for Papers, as circulated. Please note that the date for submissions has passed and the successful participants are listed above.
Convenors: James Loxley (University of Edinburgh) and Mark Robson (Nottingham University)
1985 saw the publication of three influential collections of essays: Alternative Shakespeares, Political Shakespeare, and Shakespeare and the Question of Theory. Twenty years on, it seems time to reassess both the fortunes of the projects that those books represented, and the current state of Shakespeare studies ‘after’ theory.
Seminar participants are invited to offer papers which engage with these central areas of interest. Papers should address material from one or more of the books in question. Possible topics might include (but are not exhausted by):
• Relations to the current states of Shakespeare studies
• ‘Reception’ (in a broad sense)
• Polemical readings, for or against
• Connections between the books (such as, for example, the place of cultural
materialism or the work of Stephen Greenblatt)
• Contextualising readings of 1985 as a moment of production (which may
include, for example, a consideration of Shakespeare or English studies or publishing
in the 1980s)
• The degree to which these books promoted or resisted the rise of historicism
• An area of critical interest that has become more prominent since 1985
(such as postcolonialism, ecocriticism, ethics, presentism, and so on), and
how it has been positioned in relation to these books
• What was ‘missing’ from or inadequately represented in these
books
• ‘British’ and ‘American’ approaches to Shakespeare
• The ‘uses’ of theory in these books
Contact: James Loxley (james.loxley@ed.ac.uk)
and Mark Robson (mark.robson@nottingham.ac.uk)
