Four Announcements
1. Today on SHAKSPER Peter Holland made the following announcement:
Renderings: Shakespeare across Continents. An international conference at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, 10-12th September 2008.
This conference explores current trends and possible shifts of paradigms in the translation, performance and teaching of Shakespeare. Paper sessions are 20-minute slots with 10 minutes for questions/discussion. Paper deadline is August 15, 2008. For details, see: http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/conference/shakespeare/
2. And speaking of China and Chinese:
The Banquet and Maqbool: A Review Cluster, edited by Alexander Huang for Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (http://www.borrowers.uga.edu). Reviews of The Banquet (Ye Yan), a 2006 Chinese film adaptation of Hamlet, and/or Maqbool (Macbeth, 2004), are invited. The films will be screened at the 2008 annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Dallas. Both films, with English subtitles, have been released on DVD in the U.S.
3. Early Modern Literary Studies 13.3, January 2008) was released today at:
If you are unfamiliar with this excellent electronic journal, drop what you are doing and visit the site. The featured articles in 12.2 are already indexed in the appropriate places on the Mr. Shakespeare web site.
4. Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch announced the festival's 2009 season. "The slate of 11 plays, anchored by four plays by Shakespeare, continues Rauch's agenda of producing non-western classics and dramas from other parts of the globe. The group of plays also demonstrates a renewed commitment to American classics and expanding the festival's boundaries -- in this case with the first non-Shakespeare classic in the New Theatre and the first play by an artist of color on the Elizabethan Stage." The lineup includes:
- Macbeth
- Death and the King's Horseman (Wole Soyinka)
- The Music Man
- Equivocation (by Bill Cain, a world premiere)
- Paradise Lost (Odets)
- Dead Man's Cell Phone (by Sarah Ruhl, West Coast Premiere)
- The Servant of Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni)
- All's Wll That Ends Well
- Henry VIII
- Don Quixote (a world premiere adaptation by Octavio Solis)
- Much Ado About Nothing
For dates and details, visit the OSF web site.
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