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Shakespeare After Werstine: Editing Shakespeare Now
Shakespeare After Werstine will address the most urgent questions of editorial practice facing Shakespeare scholars today and celebrate the career of Distinguished University Professor Paul Werstine. Over the past three decades, through the work of Paul Werstine and other textual scholars, assumptions and practices that dominated twentieth-century editing have been overturned. Editors and textual theorists now work at a moment of uncertainty that demands new theories and practices for establishing and presenting Shakespeare's text. Paper sessions will collectively address three key current challenges. First, how may textual and documentary evidence bear on editorial decision-making? Second, how may new editions best serve a diverse modern readership? Papers may explore, for example, how obligations to equity and diversity may be better met through editorial strategies such as paratextual materials, decisions about the playtext, and innovative forms of annotation. Third, papers will also examine how accessibility and the possibilities for interactivity that come with digital publication have transformed the editor's work, the face of the edition, and concepts of what constitutes a work and a canon. Confirmed speakers include Freya Abbas, Brandi K. Adams, Heidi Craig, Alan Galey, Ashley Howard, Janelle Jenstad, Eric Johnson, Ian Lancashire, Zachary Lesser, James J. Marino, Sonia Massai, Rebecca Niles, James Purkis, Ian Rae, Eric Rasmussen, Blake Robertson, Scott Schofield, Robert Stagg, M. L. Stapleton, Misha Teramura, Jessica Tooker and Katayoun Torabi. Paper presentations will be livestreamed and captioned recordings of the paper presentations will be posted online after the event.
This conference was made possible through financial and in-kind support provided by:
English and Writing Studies
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
King’s University College
The Medieval Seminar
Performance Studies Research Group
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
深夜福利站 Early Modern Studies
