THURSDAY 20 MARCH
4.00 - 6.00 Registration: Arts Building, Trinity College, Main Concourse
Note: all of the conference events will take place in the Ernest Walton Theatre (room 2039),
Arts Building, unless otherwise indicated.
FRIDAY 21 MARCH
9.15 Opening of Conference: Welcoming Address.
9.30 - 10.30 Plenary Speaker 1: Philip Edwards (University of Liverpool), 'Shakespeare, Ireland,
Dreamland'.
11.00 - 1.00 Paper Session 1: Imperial Politics
Richard Abrams (University of Southern Maine), ' "English Egypt": The Topicality of
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra'.
Patricia A. Cahill (Columbia University), ' "We Had Beene Safe in Ireland"; Masculinity,
Captain Thomas Stukeley, and the Disciplines of War'.
Bernhard Klein (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit„t, Frankfurt), 'Shakespeare and the Map
of Ireland'.
Emma Smith (All Souls College, Oxford) ' "These Irishmen, some say, are great dissemblers":
Irishness as Disguise in Renaissance Drama'.
2.30 - 3.30 Plenary Speaker 2: Ania Loomba (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi),
'Shakespeare and the Location of Culture'
4.00 - 5.30 Paper Session 2: Colonial Perspectives
Jacqueline Belanger (University of Kent at Canterbury), ' "The wonderful philosophic
impartiality in Shakespeare's politics": Shakespeare, Coleridge and Ireland'.
Elizabeth Fowler (Yale University), 'Scenes of Colonial Jurisprudence'.
Thomas Herron (University of Wisconsin-Madison), ' "Where is Duncan's body?" Plantation
Politics and Irish Saints in Shakespeare's Richard II and Macbeth'.
SATURDAY 22 MARCH
9.30 - 10.30 Plenary Speaker 3: Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin), 'Yeats and
Shakespeare'.
11.00 - 1.00 Paper Session 3: Theatre History and Ireland
Chris Morash (Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth), 'Shakespeare and the Shape of Irish
History'.
Peter Raby (Homerton College, Cambridge), 'Harriet Smithson and the interpretation of
Shakespearean roles'.
Richard Schoch (University of Birmingham), ' "Chopkins Late Shakespeare": the Bard and
his Burlesques, 1811-1859'.
Patrick Tuite (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 'Parading Along the Parish Boundaries:
Identifying Institutions of Erasure in the Theatre of Seventeenth Century Ireland'.
2.30 - 4.00 Paper Session 4: Coming to Terms with Shakespeare
Margot Gayle Backus (St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY), 'McGuinness and the
Exorcists: Shakespearean Gothicism in Contemporary Irish Dramaturgy.
Eugene O'Brien (University of Limerick), 'Patrick W. Shakespeare and the Politics of Irish
Identity'.
Kiernan Ryan (New Hall, Cambridge), ' "Dreaming of Things to Come": the Burden of the
Bard in Wilde, Shaw and Joyce'.
4.30 - 6.00 Henry V Seminar (tabled papers)
Jean Feerick (Univesity of Pennsylvania), 'Henry V and national identity'.
Cherrie Gottsleben(Northeastern Illinois University), 'The Colonizing of Myth'.
Ted Motohashi (Tokyo Metropolitan University), ' "Remember Crispin": Henry V
and the Politics of Memory'.
Andrew Murphy (University of Hertfordshire), 'Editing Ireland: Henry V '.
SUNDAY 23 MARCH
9.30 - 11.00 Paper Session 5: Shakespeare, Canon and Postcoloniality
Claudia W. Harris (Brigham Young University), 'The Tempest as Political Allegory'.
Christina Hunt Mahony (Catholic University of America), 'Shakespeare and Dowden'.
Ramona Wray (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Shakespeare and the Sectarian Divide:
Teaching the English Renaissance in (Post) Post-Ceasefire Belfast'.
11.30 - 1.00 Contemporary Theatre Practice Session 1: Acting Shakespeare in and out of
Ireland.
2.30 - 4.30 Contemporary Theatre Practice Session 2: Producing an Irish Shakespeare.
A number of outstanding theatre professionals have accepted invitations to participate in these
two sessions on contemporary theatre practice, subject to other commitments. It is not possible at
this stage to confirm the names of those taking part.
This academic programme does not include details of social activities, receptions, exhibitions
and theatre events being planned in association with the conference.
Registration Fee. The registration fee should be received by 1 March 1997, after which a late
fee will apply. The fee should be sent by personal cheque or by banker's draft in one of the
following currencies only, payable to "Trinity College Dublin", and posted with the slip below (by
airmail, where appropriate) to:
Norah Crummy
School of English
Trinity College
Dublin 2, Ireland
by 1 March 1997 after 1 March 1997
FULL FEE
Irish 40 pounds 45 pounds
Sterling 40 pounds 45 pounds
US dollars 65 dollars 75 dollars
*Students must send with the fee a photocopy of a current student card or other document
certifying full-time enrollment in a college or university.
Accommodation. The conference hotel is the new Bewley's Hotel, 19/20 Fleet Street, Dublin
2, a short walk from the front gate of Trinity. All rooms are equipped with private bath,
telephone, TV, and tea/coffee-making facilities. Conference registrants should make their own
bookings directly with the hotel NO LATER THAN 1 FEBRUARY 1997, quoting the reference
"Trinity College". The special rates, which include full breakfast and taxes, are œ55 for a single
room and œ75 for a double.
Telephone +353 1 670 8122
Fax +353 1 670 8103
Because of the time of year no rooms in Trinity College will be available. Those who wish
alternative accommodation may contact Dublin Tourism, who will book rooms in guest houses and
other hotels. Website:
Arrival in Dublin. Taxis from Dublin Airport to city centre cost about œ12-14. Alternatively,
a frequent express bus is priced at œ2.50, and deposits passengers a ten-minute walk from Bewley's
Hotel and Trinity. Further information about the conference is available from Norah Crummy by
telephone on +353
1 608 2301 or by fax on +353 1 671 7114.
Postal address as below.
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Registration Form
(Must be received by 1 March 1997 to avoid the late fee)
Name
Mailing address
Telephone
Fax
email address
Institutional affiliation (for name badge)
Cheque or draft enclosed, payable to "Trinity College Dublin" in the amount of
___________
(Students must include proof of status)
Send to:
Norah Crummy
School of English
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland
