Seminar No. 3.8.

Title: Editing Shakespeare's Mediterranean Plays.

Leaders:

Jay Halio (University of Delaware, USA)
Charles Whitworth (University of Montpellier, France)

Participants:

Peter Alscher (Mentor, Ohio)
Tom Clayton (University of Minnesota)
Yuji Kaneko (Chuo University)
William Long (New York)
Barbara Mowat (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Michael Skovmand (University of Aarhus)
Tiffany Stern (Merton College, Oxford)
Richard Weisberg (Cardozo School of Law, New York)

Abstract:

This seminar on editing and textual criticism will focus on a selection of Shakespeare's plays which have a Mediterranean
setting, and in which that setting is particularly prominent. We have selected plays whose earliest texts are of various
provenance and which pose a range of problems and questions, not only for editors but also for commentators and
annotators (realizing that the same person will frequently be wearing all of those hats). We invite papers on the following
works, with some reference to textual/editorial matters: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The
Merchant of Venice, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, The Tempest. Contributions on editorial matters which
deal primarily or exclusively with other 'Mediterranean' plays may be considered -- but be prepared to defend your
choice.