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The Comic in Shakespeare Conference
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Conference Begins: | 2001-06-28 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2001-04-26 |
| Announcement ID: |
127667 |
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In this two day conference, academics from France, the
United States, Germany, Australia and England will
discuss various aspects of comedy in Shakespeare's
plays. The conference will also host an after-dinner
lecture by the comic novelist Howard Jacobson.
The Programme:
- Francois Laroque, `Saturnalian comedy: Falstaff and
Cleopatra'
- Scott Fraser: `Shakespeare's early Clowns'
- Carol Rutter: `Laugh? I could have cried'
- Beatrix Hesse: `Comic communication patterns in
Twelfth Night'
- Iain Tipliss: `Hamlet and Freud's joke book'
- Marvin Krims: `Laughter and Cruelty in The Shrew'
- Ann Blake: `The Taming of the Shrew: making fun of
Katherine'
- Molly Mahood: `Shakespeare's art of prior parody'
- Michael Cordner: `Actors, annotators and Shakespearean
comic dialogues'
- Howard Jacobson: `Hamlet or how to lighten up'
- Sue Wiseman: `Comic violence in The Comedy of Errors
and The Merry Wives'
- Bob Madison: `Killing Jack Cade'
- Emma Smith: `Mirth in funeral: laughter and excess in
Shakespeare's tragedies'
- David Ellis: `Black comedy in Titus Andronicus'
The full cost of this conference, including bed (two nights),
full board, entertainment and the conference fee, is £130.
Organized by: University of Kent at Canterbury
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Magali Raynaud,
School of English,
University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, UK
(email: M.J.Raynaud@ukc.ac.uk).
Email: m.j.raynaud@ukc.ac.uk
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