CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

 

                    Boğaziçi University

Department of Western Languages and Literatures

May 12-14, 2004

Istanbul, Turkey

 

(Re)reading Shakespeare: Text and Performance

 

                   Soule of the age,

The applause, delight, the wonder of our Stage…

Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to shewe

To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.

He was not of an age, but for all time …”

 

Ben Jonson’s prophecy foretelling the eternal nature of Shakespeare’s drama seems to have been completely fulfilled as we still read the great bard’s works and watching them on the stage with renewed enthusiasm. This conference seeks to offer fresh perspectives and critical renderings of Shakespeare’s works on the domains of both text and performance.

Topics include but are not limited to:

*Contemporary Shakespeare criticism

*Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism

*Shakespeare and Feminism

*Adaptations of Shakespeare

*Shakespeare and Film

*Shakespeare and Culture(s)

*Shakespeare and Language

*Shakespeare and Appropriation/Rewriting Shakespeare

*Shakespeare in Translation

 

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: January 16, 2004

Please send a one-page proposal and a short bio to “Shakespeare Conference”

by fax [ 90-212-287 24 70] or e-mail [shakespeareconf@boun.edu.tr].

 

*** You may also visit our website at www.shakespeareconf.boun.edu.tr