Seminar No. 3.7.

Title: Shakespeare’s Biography.

Leaders:

E.A.J. Honigmann (University of Newcastle, UK)
Lois Potter (University of Delaware, USA)

Participants:

Edward S. Brubaker (Franklin-Marshall College)
Agnes Fleck (College of St. Scholastica)
Reg Foakes (UCLA)
Park Honan (University of Leeds)
Jean-Marie Maguin (Université Paul-Valery, Montpellier)
Penny McCarthy (Glasgow University)
Charles Pastoor (Nyack College, New York)
Enno Ruge (Institut für Englische Philologie, Munich)
John Joseph Tobin (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Bruce Young (Brigham Young University)

Abstract:

The seminar will concern itself with Shakespeare, his family and associates, i.e. with the great variety of biographical
problems, and perhaps with biographical method in recent Lives. It may include papers on Shakespeare’s personality,
development, religion, his attitude to other writers, theirs to him, the dating of the plays and poems, and, if possible, things
unattempted yet in prose or rhyme by previous biographers.