Seminar No. 2.5.

Title:  "Here I am...yet cannot hold this visible shape": Early Modern Man.

Leaders:

Bruce Smith (Georgetown University, USA)
Martin Orkin (University of Haifa, Israel)

Respondent.

Avraham Oz (Universities of Haifa and Tel Aviv)

Participants:

Douglas A. Brooks (Texas A&M University)
Maurizio Calbi (Universita degli Studi di Salerno)
Casey Charles (University of Montana)
Charles R Forker (Indiana University)
Barbara Fuchs (University of Washington)
Judith Haber (Tufts University)
Ursula Hehl (Gladbach)
Andreas Hoefele (University of Heidelberg)
Richard Levin (University of California, Davis)
Simon Palfrey (University of Liverpool)
Jennifer Panek (University of Massachusetts)
Phyllis Rackin (University of Pennsylvania)
Craig Rustici (Hofstra University)
Alan Sinfield (Sussex University)
Ian Smith (Lafayette College)
James Stone (American University in Cairo)
Suzanne Trill ( Edinburgh University)
Jacqueline Vanhoutte (University of North Texas)
Jennifer Vaught (Northern Michigan University)

Abstract:

This seminar hopes to complement feminist projects by exploring, against assumptions about a uniform and consistent
patriarchy, the possibility of heterogeneity in constructions of masculinity in Shakespeare's plays and/or those of his
contemporaries. Concern with masculinity may involve a wide range of perspectives including subjectivity, sexuality,
the body, gender, transgression. How does this concern intersect with questions of nation, cultural difference,
twentieth-century notions of masculinity? Is the masculinity represented in Shakespeare's plays located in Mediterranean
countries different from Shakespeare's other plays or those of his contemporaries? How do countries in the
Mediterranean now read Shakespeare's construction of 'man'?.