The International Shakespeare Association

NINTH WORLD SHAKESPEARE CONGRESS

PRAGUE 2011

‘Renaissance Shakespeare / Shakespeare Renaissances’ 17 –22 July 2011 Arranged by The International Shakespeare Association and Charles University, in co-operation with The National Theatre in Prague Under the auspices of Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic

The International Shakespeare Association

The Ninth World Shakespeare Congress in Prague will mark the next phase in a journey through four continents. Beginning in Vancouver, this international conference has travelled every five years since 1971 to share Shakespearean scholarship, performance, and pedagogy at another great site: Washington D.C., Stratford-upon-Avon, Berlin, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Valencia and Brisbane. The culturally rich city of Prague, a new setting for the Congress in central Europe, offers a wonderful opportunity to engage in dialogue about Shakespearean reception both here and throughout the world.

PROFESSOR JILL LEVENSON, University of

Toronto, Chair of the ISA Executive Committee

Dear Prague ISA Congress Participants Charles University, the National Theatre and other major Czech cultural and academic institutions are greatly pleased and honoured to be able to welcome you to Prague in July 2011. We hope that you will enjoy your stay and would like to offer you a rewarding academic programme as well as a rich choice of cultural events and excursions. We believe that The Ninth World Shakespeare Congress will become a major international academic, cultural and educational event, combining the general focus on Shakespearean revivals in diverse cultures with a special emphasis on Shakespeare’s reception in Central Europe and the roles of Shakespeare in the process of intercultural communication and national emancipation. On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee

Professor Martin Prochàzka and Professor Martin Hilský The International Shakespeare Association will fulfill the wish of one of its most enthusiastic supporters and a former member of its Executive Committee, Professor Zdenĕk Stříbrný, by accepting the invitation of Czech Shakespeare scholars to hold our meeting in Prague. Professor Stříbrný is delighted at the prospect of welcoming a world gathering of Shakespeareans to his home city.

The International Shakespeare Association

OUTLINE PROGRAMME Plenary meetings: Five internationally known speakers will give plenary papers. Plenary speakers already confirmed include Professor Martin Hilský and Professor Stanley Wells. Short papers: Over seventy-five speakers from many different countries will address the Congress. Although the majority will be by invitation, some space has been reserved for papers submitted for consideration. Seminars and Workshops: Almost forty seminars and workshops covering a wide range of topics will be held. The deadline for registration in a seminar or workshop is 15th March 2010. Registration for a seminar or workshop is not compulsory.

CONGRESS SOCIAL PROGRAMME In addition to the welcome reception and Congress dinner, other events include productions of Shakespeare’s plays in Czech translations during the Shakespeare Summer Festival at Prague Castle, as well as several concerts and exhibitions to be advertised in due course. EXCURSIONS The Congress will offer an exciting opportunity to experience some of the cultural and social life of Prague, and to see the sights of the city and its environs. •

Renaissance Castles of the Rosenberg family at Jindřichův Hradec, Třeboň and Český Krumlov: tracing the steps of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley: visiting a unique Baroque theatre at Český Krumlov.

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Edmund Campion in the Jesuit colleges of Prague, Brno and Olomouc.

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Last Years of Edward Kelley visiting the Křivoklát Castle.

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Vestonia in Prague: places connected with the life and death of Elizabeth Weston, a stepdaughter of Kelley and an English poetess writing in Latin.

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Prague of Rudolph II and Frederic of Palatine

THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION President: Dame Judi Dench Honorary Vice-Presidents: Werner Habicht, Dieter Mehl Vice Presidents: Ann Jennalie Cook Stanley Wells

Vanderbilt University Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Chair: Jill Levenson

Trinity College, University of Toronto

Vice Chair: Tetsuo Kishi

University of Kyoto

Executive Committee: Clara Calvo Sukanta Chaudhuri Rafik Darragi Carla Dente Andreas Höfele Peter Holbrook Ton Hoenselaars Tetsuo Kishi (Vice Chair) Akiko Kusunoki Jill Levenson (Chair) Roger Pringle Chee Seng Lim Lena Cowen Orlin José Roberto O’Shea Martin Procházka Hanna Scolnicov

Universidad de Murcia Jadavpur University University of Tunis University of Pisa University of Munich University of Queensland University of Utrecht University of Kyoto Tokyo Woman’s Christian University Trinity College, University of Toronto The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust University of Malaya Shakespeare Association of America Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina Charles University Tel-Aviv University

Congress Committee: Chair: Jill Levenson Vice Chair: Tetsuo Kishi Martin Hilský Andreas Höfele Ton Hoenselaars Peter Holbrook Peter Holland Christina Jansohn M. J. Kidnie

Trinity College, University of Toronto Shakespeare Society of Japan Charles University University of Munich University of Utrecht University of Queensland University of Notre Dame University of Bamberg University of Western Ontario

Akiko Kusunoki C. S. Lim Kate McLuskie Lena Cowen Orlin Martin Procházka Roger Pringle Jesús Tronch Pérez

Tokyo Woman’s Christian University University of Malaya Shakespeare Institute Shakespeare Association of America Charles University Shakespeare Birthplace Trust University of Valencia

978-161149461-7 • eBook December 2013 Pages: 470 Edited by Martin Procházka; Michael Dobson; Andreas Höfele and Hanna Scolnicov Series: The World Shakespeare Congress Proceedings

Part 1 Renaissance Shakespeare: Interpretations, Performance, Contexts Chapter 1: Shakespeare: the Man of European Renaissance Stanley Wells Chapter 2: Talbot, Incorporated Joel Rodgers Chapter 3: Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion Elizabeth Pentland Chapter 4: Ecology, Evolution, and Hamlet Randall Martin Chapter 5: The Anticipatory Premise of History in the Reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Robert Darcy Chapter 6: The Balance of Power in King Lear’s Kingdoms Atsuhiko Hirota Chapter 7: “Here’s a strange alteration”: Contagion and the Mutable Mind in Coriolanus Darryl Chalk Chapter 8: Making Visible: Afterlives in Shakespeare’s Pericles Supriya Chaudhuri

Chapter 9: A Legal Assessment of the Circumstantial Evidence in The Winter’s Tale Kimberly R. West Chapter 10: Shakespeare’s Lost Pastorals Sukanta Chaudhuri Chapter 11: Shakespeare and Festival Margaret Shewring Chapter 12: Using On-screen Modeling to Examine Shakespearean Stage Performance Richard Fotheringham Chapter 13: What Are We Doing When We’re ‘Doing Shakespeare’? The Embodied Brain in Theatrical Experience Ros King Chapter 14: The Queen of Bohemia’s Wedding James J. Marino Chapter 15: The Puritan Widow and London Parishes Brian Walsh Chapter 16: Old Repertory, New Theatre: Expectation and Experience in Christopher Beeston’s Cockpit Eleanor Collins Chapter 17: “A plague o’ these pickle herring”: From London Drinkers to European Stage Clown M.A. Katritzky Part 2 Shakespeare Renaissances: Appropriations, Adaptations, Afterlives Chapter 18: Shakespeare’s Theatre of Language: Czech Experience Martin Hilský Chapter 19: Directing Shakespeare: The Cold War Years Ann Jennalie Cook, Vlasta Gallerová, Karel Kríž and Robert Sturua Chapter 20: Shakespeare’s Undiplomatic Readers Jean-Christophe Mayer Chapter 21: Shakespeare: The Unmaking of a National Poet Balz Engler Chapter 22: Shakespeare in Habsburg Transylvania Madalina Nicolaescu Chapter 23: Between the East and the West: Tsubouchi Shoyo’s Production of Hamlet in 1911 Kaori Kobayashi Chapter 24: “The Chap That Writes Like Synge”: Shakespeare at the Abbey Theatre Patrick Lonergan Chapter 25: “Ease and Deliciousness”: The Merchant of Venice and the Performance of Ethical Continuity in National Socialist Germany Zeno Ackermann Chapter 26: Shakespeare in Extremis: The Staging of the Classics by Greek Political Exiles (19511953) Tina Krontiris Chapter 27: Reasoning the Need: Shakespeare Performance in Reunified Berlin Emily Oliver

Chapter 28: Hamlet in Venice: An Anthropology of Italian Theory Shaul Bassi Chapter 29: Robert Lepage among the Huronne-Wendat: An(other) Aboriginal Treatment of La Tempête Barry Freeman Chapter 30: Shakespeare and American Bilingualism: Borderland Productions of Romeo y Julieta Carla Della Gatta Chapter 31: The Brazilian Accent of Othello Cristiane Busato Smith Chapter 32: Tragedy’s Honor, and Ours Sharon O’Dair Chapter 33: The Politics of Rape in Nahum Tate’s The History of King Lear, 1681 Emma Depledge Chapter 34: (Re)touching: Shakespeare and Cinematic War Narratives Anna Cetera Chapter 35: Happily Never After? Women Filmmakers and the Tragedy of Macbeth Courtney Lehmann Chapter 36: Singing to Shakespeare in Omkara Poonam Trivedi Chapter 37: Renegotiating Female Power: Shakespearean Productions in Taiwan 2000-2010 Bi-qi Beatrice Lei Chapter 38: Stratford Revisited Graham Holderness Chapter 39: Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Stoppard Hanna Scolnicov Chapter 40: The Stoppard Chronicles Jill L. Levenson Chapter 41: Stoppard and Shakespeare Hersh Zeifman Appendix A: Complete List of Papers from the Conference Programme Appendix B: Seminars, with Their Leaders and Registered Participants Notes on Contributors Index