Seminar No. 2.8.

Title: Creative and Critical Appropriations of Shakespeare.

Leaders:

Sonia Massai (St Mary's, Strawberry Hill, University of Surrey, UK)
Barbara Sebek (Colorado State University, USA)

Participants:

Linda Burnett (St Mary's University, Nova Scotia)
Walter W. Cannon (Central College, Iowa)
Aimara da Cunha Resende (University of the State of Minas Gerais)
Patty Derrick (University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown)
Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University)
Michael Anthony Ingham (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Maria Jones (University of Wolverhampton)
Elizabeth Klein (University of Illinois Urbana - Champain)
Kaori Kobayashi (Doho University)
Ruru Li (University of Leeds)
Zoltan Markus (New York University)
Clare McManus (Queen's University, Belfast)
Michael Shapiro (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Frances A. Shirley (Wheaton College, Massachusetts)
Brandie R. Siegfried (Brigham Young University)
Christel Stalpaert (University of Ghent)
Poonam Trivedi (University of Dehli)
Ramona Wray (Queen's University, Belfast)

Abstract:

Engaging recent work that regards performances and adaptations as critical appropriations on a level with materialist
and/or post-structuralist critical analyses, this seminar invites papers that analyse how a particular production or
adaptation speaks to the distinctive interests or perspectives of a given audience. Participants may focus on a stage or film
appropriation, drawn from any period -- Restoration and early Augustan, Victorian, twentieth-century, etc. Papers should
reflect on how the writers’ own critical practices speak to a particular set of interests, or wrestle with the premise that all
creative appropriations are ‘interested’ ones. We also invite papers that challenge or problematise this premise.