2004 WV Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Conference Schedule
Renaissance Politics
Chair: Ed Taft
“Crafting Politics: Royal Shipbuilding at the Court of Prince Henry”
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Greg McNamara,
“Gender, Identification, and the Role of Defense in Elizabeth Carey’s Edward II”
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“Facts Against Faction: The Implicit Politics of Bacon’s New Organon”
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Sight
and Insight in Renaissance Literature
Chair: Kateryna Schray
“The Gift of the Magus: Mystical Glasses in Renaissance Drama”
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Aaron Butler,
“Telescopic Vision, the Heavens, and The Winter’s Tale”
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Christina Cottrill,
“Fooled by the Footnotes: A Fresh Look at Wyatt’s Use of Petrarch”
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8:30- Happy Hour (Calamity Café)
Friday, 23 April Alumni
Lounge (
Coffee and Pastries
Good
and Evil in the Renaissance
Chair: John McKernan
“Conjurations and Condemnations in Othello”
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Casey Rudkin,
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“The Importance of Retaining Fortinbras in Hamlet”
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Melanie Rowand,
Nelson, Editor of Conference Journal: SRASP.
Rhetoric
and Allegory in Renaissance Texts
Chair: James H. Forse
“Spenser’s Use of The Book of Tobit in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene”
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Paul Kane,
“”The Landscape of Exhortation in John Knox”
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Rudolph F. Almasy,
“Pulpit and Print: The Six Sermons Published in John Donne’s Lifetime”
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Byron Nelson,
Meeting of WEVSARA Executive Committee,
Byron Nelson, Executive Director, Presiding
Early Theatre Research and History
Chair: Gwenyth Hood
“Purim Celebrations in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Periods”
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Rebecca Gavrila,
“The Life and Death of Biblical Drama in the Sixteenth Century”
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John Ellis,
“Performance Equals Privilege”
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James H. Forse,
3:15-4:45 Session Six
Shakespeare’s
Problem Comedies
Chair: Mary Moore
“The Power of the Ring: Overcoming the Problems in The Merchant of
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Sarah Kiepper,
“Nunn’s Twelfth Night and Voyeurism”
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Alicia Sutliff,
“The Twelfth Night of Maria and Olivia”
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5:15-6:15 Keynote Address
Chair: Ed Taft
“When a Kiss Isn’t
Just a Kiss: Some Thoughts on Osculation in Shakespeare”
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Tom Stoppard’s “15-Minute Hamlet”
Saturday, 24 April Alumni
Lounge (
Coffee and Pastries
New
Interpretations of Shakespeare
Chair: Bob Hong
“The Two Gentlemen of
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John Rooks,
“Shrieking Harbinger: Irony and Historicity in The
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Clifford Stetner,
“A Picture in Little is Worth A Thousand Words”
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Thomas W.
Shakespearean Comedy and Romance
Chair: Tim Burbery
“The Utilitarian Morality of Petruchio’s Actions”
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Joseph Tobini,
“Wonder, Imagination, and the Matter of Theatre in The Tempest”
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Mary Moore,
“A Father’s Voice: Textual Variants in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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Christina Reiswig,