Workshop on Shakespeare and Space

Saturday, June 9

8:30-8:40 Opening Remarks:  Michael Dobson;  Yuan Nan;  Cong Cong

8:40-9:40

Prelude: The Spatial Turn in Shakespeare Studies

   Michael and Cong: A Brief Introduction

9:40-10:00 Photo Taking and Tea Break

10:00-12:00

Session I: Early Modern Geographies

               Geopolitical Space

               Social/Gendered Space

1. Michael: “Sending Shakespeare to Coventry: Space, Time and the Places of English History.’

2. Hao Tianhu: The Geography of Difference in Pericles and Foure Prentises of London

3. Hybrid Spaces in Antony and Cleopatra

4. The Sea in Pericles

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-5:30 (with tea break)

Session II: Structural/Topological Space

Stage Space/Setting/Locality

Linguistic/Poetic Space

1. Tiffany Stern: “The Geographies of Stage and Page”

2. The Theatrical Topology of Tyranny in Richard III

3. Shakespeare’s Enclaves

4. Thickets and Beaches: Evoking Place in the Stories

5. Chris Laoutaris: Shakespeare among the Rebels: The Playwright, the Countess and the Battle for London’s Blackfriars

6. The Lady Shall Say Her Mind Freely: Shaspeare and the S/Pace of Blank Verse

Sunday, June 10 (with tea break)

9:00-12:00

Session III: Cultural Spaces/Contact Zones

The Material World/Cultural Imaginary

1. Universals in the Bush: The Case of Hamlet

2. The German Hamlet: Ghostly Encounters in the Space of the Stage and the Novel

3. “One Cannot Act Hamlet, One Must Be Hamlet”: The Acculturation of Hamlet in Russia

4. Hamlet’s Mobility: The Reception of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in US American and Canadian Narrative Fiction

5. Local Habitations: Hamlet at Helsingor, Juliet at Verona