S H A K S P E R:
The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference

SHAKSPER is the international electronic conference for Shakespearean
researchers, instructors, students, and those who share their academic
interests and concerns.  It currently includes more than 1,400
SHAKSPEReans, from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Finland,
France, Germany, Great Britain, Guam, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel,
Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain,
Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United
States.

Like the national and international Shakespeare Association conferences,
SHAKSPER offers announcements and bulletins, scholarly papers, and the
formal exchange of ideas-but SHAKSPER also offers on-going opportunities
for spontaneous informal discussion, eavesdropping, peer review, and a
sense of worldwide scholarly community.  In addition, the SHAKSPER
Fileserver offers conference papers and abstracts, an International
Directory of Shakespeare Institutes, biographies of conference members,
and a variety of announcements, texts, and bibliographies.

The daily SHAKSPER digests are organized by subject for the reader's
convenience.  SHAKSPER digests include conference announcements, member
notes and queries, book and theatre reviews, textual debate, discussion
of lecture strategies, and much more. The Editor normally publishes
contributions to SHAKSPER lightly edited and grouped according to topic
for readers' convenience.  Contributions that are clearly irresponsible,
offensive, or apart from SHAKSPER's purpose will be returned unpublished
as will submissions concerning the so-called "Authorship Question."

Technically, SHAKSPER is a LISTSERV "list" running under UNIX on an Sun
work station (a Sparc 4, running Solaris 2.5) at Bowie State University
in Bowie, Maryland.  The list editor, Hardy M. Cook, is a Professor of
English at Bowie State University and can be contacted at
<SHAKSPER@ws.BowieState.edu>.

No academic qualifications are required for membership in SHAKSPER, and
anyone interested in English Literature, the Renaissance, or Drama is
welcome to join us.  Write to the editor or send a one-line e-mail
message, reading "SUB SHAKSPER firstname lastname" to
LISTSERV@ws.BowieState.edu, and you will receive detailed information
with further instructions for becoming a SHAKSPERean.

[SHAKSPER is edited/moderated and is not open to automatic
subscription.]