SHAKESPEARE CONFIGURED: A Symposium

UNIVERSITY OF YORK, 9-10 October 2009

Conceived as the first in a series of symposia leading to a
collection of essays, this meeting will take a fresh look at
configurations—and reconfigurations—of Shakespeare from the
earliest editions to the latest adaptations. An invited group of
scholars will offer new materials and approaches for studying
the packaging of the plays and poems through time, between
cultures and across media (including early anthologies,
Restoration rewritings, modern performances, marginalia,
buildings, illustrations, sculptures, paintings and silent films).

REGISTRATION IS FREE BUT PLACES MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE
~CONTACT SALLY KINGSLEY (SK23@YORK.AC.UK)~

Sponsored by the Institutt for fremmedspråk, University of Bergen, and the Centre for
Renaissance & Early Modern Studies, University of York

FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER: KING'S MANOR

10:00-10:15 COFFEE AND WELCOME

10:15-11:45 PRINTERS, EDITORS, USERS (Sonia Massai, Chair)
Jeffrey Knight (Michigan), "Contingency and Collected Works: Reading the 'Pavier Quartos'"
Emma Smith (Oxford), "Antipholus of where?: reading without notes"

11:45-1:15 FROM COMMONPLACES TO COMMON READERS (Bill Sherman, Chair)
Jean-Christophe Mayer (CNRS/Montpelier), "Shakespeare's Commonplacing Readers"
Andrew Murphy (St Andrews), "Configuring Shakespeare for the Common Reader"

1:15-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:30 QUESTIONS OF PROPERTY (Chair TBA)
Marcus Nevitt (Sheffield), "Ciphers of Authority: William Davenant and Restoration
Shakespeare"
Erica Sheen (York), "'What's in a name?': 'Shakespeare' and the case for intellectual property"

3:30-4:00 TEA

4:00-5:30 PROBLEMS OF AUTHORSHIP (Chair TBA)
Varsha Panjwani (York), "'Hands off proud stranger': Shakespeare versus collaboration"
Bill Sherman (York), "Of Anagrammatology: Deciphering the Authorship Controversy"

SATURDAY 10th OCTOBER:
LECTURE HALL, BERRICK SAUL BUILDING, HESLINGTON CAMPUS

10:00-10:15 COFFEE

10:15-11:45 BODIES AND BUILDINGS (Mark Jenner, Chair)
Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse), "Shakespeare's Bodies"
Erin Blake (Folger Library), "Shakespeare Set in Stone: The Folger Shakespeare Library as
Architectural Reconfiguration"

11:45-1:15 WORD AND IMAGE (Stuart Sillars, Chair)
Ilaria Andreoli (Florida State), "Folly on the edge: Holbein’s drawings for Erasmus’s
Encomium Moriae"
Svenn-Arne Myklebost (Bergen), "Word, Image and Meaning in Manga Shakespeare"

1:15-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:30 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATION (Stuart Sillars, Chair)
Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont), "Extra-illustrating the early modern Bible"
Russell Jackson (Birmingham), "Glorifying the (Irish) American Girl"

3:30-4:00 TEA

4:00-5:30 FROM PAINTED IMAGE TO SILVER SCREEN (Chair TBA)
Stuart Sillars (Bergen), "Shakespeare and Visual Fragmentation"
Judith Buchanan (York), "Caesar's dull death and Viola the unconfigured: painterly
quotations in early silent Shakespearean cinema"

5:30-6:00 CLOSING RECEPTION (Berrick Saul Building 'Tree House')