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Centre for Renaissance Studies Annual Conference
(in association with the National Centre for Research in Children's
Literature)
SHAKESPEARE'S CHILDREN /CHILDREN'S SHAKESPEARES
11 OCTOBER 2003
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY ROEHAMPTON, LONDON UK
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: CATHERINE BELSEY
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The child as agent, symbol, witness or victim is a recurrent
preoccupation in Shakespeare's work. Children also occupied a pivotal role
in the cultures of performance of early modern England. This conference will
explore these matters in both historical and modern settings. It will
investigate what the child meant and what it meant to be a child for
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and trace the ways in which Shakespeare
has functioned subsequently in education, performance and popular culture.
Proposals are invited for short papers (20 minutes), panel presentations and
workshops on all aspects of the subject of Shakespeare and childhood
worldwide. Topics for consideration might include:
- Representations of the child in Shakespeare's plays
- Early modern constructions of childhood and youth
- Boy actresses/children's playing companies
- Child performers on stage and screen
- Adults playing children
- Shakespeare in primary and secondary education
- Shakespeare and Theatre-in-Education
- Narrative treatments of Shakespeare
- Illustrated editions and versions
- Abbreviation, bowdlerisation and abridgement
- Shakespeare and the changing curriculum around the world
- Shakespeare in youth culture: allusions, citations, spin-offs and parodies
- Cartoon Shakespeares
- Shakespeare and Writing for Children
- Shakespeare on the Internet
- Shakespeare and Childhood in the Novel
- Shakespeare and Children's/Youth Theatre
- Shakespeare, Childhood and the Visual Arts
Informal enquiries and abstracts (no more than 300 words) plus a brief CV, by
31 May 2003, to:
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