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he Shakespeare Association of America will celebrate its Thirty-Fifth Anniversary T at the Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego on Easter weekend, Thursday, 5 April through Saturday, 7 April. Special events include a Broadside Ballad performance by Lucie Skeaping and a screening of Kenneth Branagh’s new As You Like It, produced by HBO Films. Members may register for the Annual Meeting online at the SAA website,
■ THURSDAY, 5 APRIL 10:00 a.m. Registration opens. SHAKESPEARE 12:00 noon Book Exhibits open. 1:30 p.m. Two Sessions: “Shakespeare’s Audiences Now: A Roundtable” and “Embodiment, Sexuality, and Cognition in the Renaissance.” 3:30 p.m. Twelve Seminars. ASSOCIATION 6:00 p.m. Opening Reception at the Prado in Balboa Park. 9:00 p.m. Play Reading: Thomas Middleton’s No Wit, No Help Like a Woman’s.
OF AMERICA ■ FRIDAY, 6 APRIL 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast for Graduate Students. 9:00 a.m. Plenary Session: “Historical Formalism in Shakespeare Studies.” 11:00 a.m. Two Sessions: “Trans-Shakespeare: Temporality and Identity” JANUARY 2007 and “New Ways of Teaching Old Texts.” 1:00 p.m. The Annual Luncheon. 3:30 p.m. Twelve Seminars and One Workshop. BULLETIN 6:00 p.m. Broadside Balled Performance by Lucie Skeaping. ■ SATURDAY, 7 APRIL 9:00 a.m. Two Sessions: “Academic Publishing: A Roundtable” and “Early Modern How-To Books.” IN THIS ISSUE 11:00 a.m. Two Sessions: “Thresholds of Experience in Early Modernity” Letter from the President 2 and “Classical Associations.” 12:00 noon Workshop for Area Teachers. Meeting Schedule 3 2:00 p.m. Two Sessions: “Shakespeare and the Trace of Theology” and “Shakespeare, Law, and Genre.” Meeting Protocols 6 4:00 p.m. Twelve Seminars and One Workshop. Planning for San Diego 8 7:00 p.m. Film Screening: As You Like It directed by Kenneth Branagh. 10:00 p.m. The Shakespeare Association and Malone Society Dance. Associated Events 9
San Diego Attractions 10
Meeting Registration Form 11
Announcements 12
INCLUDED WITH THIS BULLETIN
Hotel Registration Form The courtyard of the to be submitted by 5 March House of Hospitality in Balboa Park where the SAA Opening Reception Ballot for SAA Officers will be held. Photo Courtesy of The Prado Restaurant. 81798.qxd:80124_newsletter.qxd 1/12/07 9:26 AM Page 2
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
rash of articles in the New York Times early this summer reminded the public again that we are all living in the midst of a cultural revolution. In May, Kevin Kelly Acelebrated projects to digitize vast libraries, predicting that reading and writing will OFFICERS become communal activities on the web. He was rebuked by John Updike, who decried the loss of intimacy found in the “encounter, in silence, of two minds, one following in the OF THE other’s steps” when a person reads a physical book. In June, Motoko Rich weighed in on SAA how digitization will affect the book publishing industry. None of this discussion is new—it has been circulating at least since the early ’90s in writings by Geoffrey Nunberg and Sven Birkerts, among others. But it strikes me that we, as students of the early modern period, are in a unique position to interpret and weigh what is happening around us, because we PRESIDENT study a culture engaged in the earlier transition from manuscript to print, in which the Georgianna Ziegler current revolution is fundamentally implicated. Folger Shakespeare Library I believe that most of us on either side of the library desk welcome the new technology as a way to make books—especially early ones that are often fragile and located VICE-PRESIDENT in few places—accessible to our students and to the public. At the same time, and I think Peter Holland not coincidentally, the migration of the book to a virtual landscape has led us to focus more University of Notre Dame on its physical aspects, its materiality. These need not, and should not be, mutually exclusive pursuits. What we learn about the form and function of early books can and TRUSTEES should inform the way we present them on the web. Most of all, we shouldn’t cheat. I know William C. Carroll Boston University of one website from a respected institution that has digitized a seventeenth-century book— but only the pages with illustrations and with a binding from another book because it was Lars Engle deemed more “attractive.” None of this bibliographic legerdemain is conveyed to the University of Tulsa viewer. There is nothing wrong with presenting pages with illustrations, or several stories Diana E. Henderson excerpted from a volume such as Holinshed’s Chronicles, but the viewer needs to know that Massachusetts Institute of this is only part of the whole book, and bits and pieces should never substitute for a body Technology of material that is actually useful to students and the general public. From a library’s point of view, it is also better for the book if the whole is digitized at the same time in high Mary Ellen Lamb Southern Illinois University resolution images, so that the physical object need not suffer repeated handling under bright lighting. Marianne Novy But what about Shakespeare? Surely the man University of Pittsburgh who wrote “Not marble nor the gilded mon- Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. uments / Of princes, shall outlive this Pennsylvania State University powerful rhyme” would not object to seeing his poetry mounted on the web. Paul Yachnin McGill University After all, he predicted that the praise of his lover “shall still find room / Even in the eyes of all posterity.” Putting it on EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR the web makes it accessible to a mul- Lena Cowen Orlin University of Maryland, titude of eyes in a posterity beyond his Baltimore County wildest imaginings. Sonnet 55 appears on “Today’s-Woman.net” as a place to ASSISTANT DIRECTOR bring poets together, where anyone Michele Osherow University of Maryland, can “add a comment” on the poem or Baltimore County send it to a friend; on a site in Colorado where people left memorial messages PROGRAM COORDINATOR Lee Tydings for their friend Bill; in the web-log of University of Maryland, Joel Dias-Porter, an African Ameri- Baltimore County can performance poet from DC who describes himself as living “on the streets for two years so I could go to the Library of Congress every- 2 day to read books,” and who 81798.qxd:80124_newsletter.qxd 1/12/07 9:26 AM Page 3
says, “I got serious about writing.” It also appears on a site devoted to ONFERENCE Shakespeare’s sonnets, offering all of C them, plus commentary that was CHEDULE subsequently gathered and republished THURSDAY, 5 APRIL DramaS and the Making of National in Oxford in book form; print-to-web- Identity in Early Modern England to-print, not unlike print-to-manu- 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Seminar Leader: LLOYD EDWARD KERMODE script-to-print found in Shakespeare’s Registration (California State University, Long Beach) time. The Semiotics of Stage Properties The web makes the poetry avail- 12:00 noon to 5:30 p.m. Seminar Leader: ARTHUR F. K INNEY able for others to use—to adapt, manip- Book Exhibits (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) ulate, riff. But that is precisely the Readings in Early Modern culture in which Shakespeare operated. 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Book History When his sonnets were circulated PAPER SESSIONS Seminar Leaders: ZACHARY LESSER (University “among his private friends,” they were of Pennsylvania) and ALAN B. FARMER read, copied, re-circulated, perhaps ■ Roundtable: Shakespeare’s (Ohio State University) even revised, as many recent studies of Audiences Now Shakespeare and Chaucer manuscript culture have shown. Chair: CHARLES JOSEPH DEL DOTTO Seminar Leader: DIETER MEHL Shakespeare himself borrowed what he (Duke University) (University of Bonn) needed, rewrote, and sent much of it BARBARA HODGDON (University of Michigan) Catholic Aesthetics and out in the “virtual” form of the theater, ELLEN MACKAY (Indiana University) Early Modern Drama where no two performances are ever Seminar Leader: SUSANNAH BRIETZ MONTA alike. It is thus true that if his friends KATHERINE ROWE (Bryn Mawr College) (Louisiana State University) had not pulled his plays off the virtual W. B. WORTHEN (University of Michigan) Shakespeare and the stage and onto the fixed page of print, Satiric Voice ■ many of them would have been lost to Embodiment, Sexuality, and Seminar Leaders: TOM BISHOP us, and perhaps he would not have Cognition in the Renaissance (University of Auckland) and MICHAEL NEILL become SHAKESPEARE. Understanding Chair: VALERIE TRAUB (University of Auckland) (University of Michigan) that and understanding the importance Shakespearean Attachments, of what materiality tells us can make us GRAHAM HAMMILL (University of Notre Dame) Part One The Marlovian Sublime especially suitable as gatekeepers of Seminar Leaders: KRISTEN POOLE the new technology. We can demand ELIZABETH D. HARVEY (University of Toronto) (University of Delaware) and DOUGLAS TREVOR that when early books (and manu- Imaginary Bodies (University of Iowa) scripts) move from paper to screen GAIL KERN PASTER (Folger Shakespeare Library) Locating Performance they are bibliographically honest. But The Pith and Marrow of our Attribute: Seminar Leader: ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY looking farther ahead, we might also Holbein, Hamlet, and the Force of (University of Kent) Temperament encourage our students to consider the Twelfth Night, Part One following: When a fine poet of the 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Seminar Leaders: PETER J. SMITH future writes in cyberspace, rethinking (Nottingham Trent University) and Shakespeare, making him new in her SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS GREG WALKER (University of Leicester) own verse, as so many earlier poets Shakespeare and Southern Italy have done, how will we know her Seminar Leaders: CATHERINE CANINO 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. name? Will we want to capture her (University of South Carolina Upstate) and IAN FREDERICK MOULTON (Arizona State OPENING RECEPTION works? Will anyone care if they live “in University) the eyes of all posterity”? Those are Open to all registrants for the 35th Annual questions for us and our scholarly heirs (Beaumont &) Fletcher & Colleagues Meeting and their guests. to ponder. & Collaborators Seminar Leader: SUZANNE GOSSETT 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. (Loyola University Chicago) Virtually yours, Shakespeare, Appropriation, PLAY READING and the Ethical No Wit, No Help Like a Woman’s by Thomas Middleton Seminar Leaders: TON HOENSELAARS (Utrecht University) and ALEXANDER C.Y. HUANG Open to all registrants for the 35th Annual (Pennsylvania State University) Meeting and their guests. 3 81798.qxd:80124_newsletter.qxd 1/12/07 9:26 AM Page 4
FRIDAY, 6 APRIL
8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Foreign Objects Seminar Leaders: BENEDICT S. ROBINSON Registration and Book Exhibits ANNUAL LUNCHEON (SUNY, Stonybrook) and DANIEL VITKUS (Florida State University) 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Presiding: GEORGIANNA ZIEGLER (Folger Shakespeare Library) Twelfth Night, Part Two Continental Breakfast for Seminar Leaders: PETER J. SMITH Open to all registrants for the 35th Annual (Nottingham Trent University) and Graduate Students Meeting; to purchase a ticket for your guest’s GREG WALKER (University of Leicester) Hosted by the Trustees of the Association luncheon, see page 11 of this bulletin. Editorial Theory and Practice in the 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Shakespeare Classroom Workshop Leader: M. L. STAPLETON (Indiana PLENARY SESSION SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne) ■ Historical Formalism in Shakespeare and Early Modern 6:00 to 7:15 p.m. Shakespeare Studies Textual Culture Chair: J. LEEDS BARROLL Seminar Leaders: PATRICK CHENEY PERFORMANCE (Folger Shakespeare Library) (Pennsylvania State University) and LUKAS ERNE (University of Geneva) The English Broadside Ballad: Street LORNA HUTSON (University of St. Andrews) Songs of the Seventeenth Century “What do these facts mean?”: Judicial The Presence of Shakespeare Performed by Lucie Skeaping with lutenist Narratio and Shakespearean Mimesis and War Robin Jeffrey. Seminar Leader: EVELYN GAJOWSKI ADAM ZUCKER (University of Massachusetts, For more information, see page 9 of this Amherst) (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) bulletin. Shakespeare’s Green Materials: Local Fantasy Shakespeare and the in The Merry Wives of Windsor Question of Time, Part One HEATHER JAMES (University of Southern Seminar Leader: LOWELL GALLAGHER SATURDAY, 7 APRIL California) (University of California, Los Angeles) Sentencing Ovid Talking About Sex 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Seminar Leader: STEPHEN GUY-BRAY Information and Book Exhibits 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (University of British Columbia) PAPER SESSIONS Shakespeare Between Religion 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. and Philosophy ■ Trans-Shakespeare: Seminar Leaders: KEN JACKSON (Wayne PAPER SESSIONS Temporality and Identity State University) and JAMES A. KNAPP Chair: JONATHAN GOLDBERG (Eastern Michigan University) ■ Roundtable: Academic Publishing (Emory University) Chair: KATHLEEN MCLUSKIE Performance Criticism: (Shakespeare Institute, University of KAREN NEWMAN (New York University) The State of the Art Birmingham) Vigny, Schakspeare’s Othello, and Cultural Seminar Leader: JEREMY LOPEZ Translation MMA ENNETT (Blackwell Publishing) (University of Toronto) E B MARCIE FRANK (Concordia University) Influence Studies after WILLIAM GERMANO (Cooper Union for the Fairie Time: Ann Radcliffe’s Shakespeare Advancement of Science and Art) Post-Structuralist Theory MADHAVI MENON (American University) Seminar Leader: SHANNON MILLER KAREN HENRY (Bedford Books) Coriolanus and I (Temple University) ANDREW MCNEILLIE (Oxford University Press) ■ Shakespeare and the Invention New Ways of Teaching Old Texts SARAH STANTON (Cambridge University Press) Chair: JEREMY EHRLICH of a Mass Audience (Folger Shakespeare Library) Seminar Leader: ANDREW MURPHY (University of St. Andrews) ■ Early Modern How-To Books MARGARET MAURER (Colgate University) Chair: EDWARD PECHTER Performance: Making the Best of a Good Idea Shakespearean Attachments, (University of Victoria) Part Two BRUCE R. SMITH (University of Southern Seminar Leaders: KRISTEN POOLE REBECCA BUSHNELL (University of Pennsylvania) California) Reading and Doing: Authority and Technical (University of Delaware) and DOUGLAS TREVOR Theory for Fun and Profit Knowledge in How-To Books (University of Iowa) KEVIN LAGRANDEUR (New York Institute of Representing Space SUSIE PHILLIPS (Northwestern University) Technology) Multi-lingual Wheeling and Dealing: Using Technology to Teach Shakespeare on the Stage Dictionaries and the Early Modern Seminar Leader: CATHERINE RICHARDSON Marketplace RUSS MCDONALD (Goldsmiths College, (Shakespeare Institute, University of University of London) Birmingham) WENDY WALL (Northwestern University) Planned Obsolescence Setting the Table of Contents 4 81798.qxd:80124_newsletter.qxd 1/12/07 9:26 AM Page 5
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ■ Shakespeare, Law, and Genre Shakespeare’s Antique Disposition: The Classical Tradition PAPER SESSIONS Chair: MARTIN ORKIN (University of Haifa) in Renaissance England ■ Seminar Leader: SEAN KEILEN Thresholds of Experience LUKE WILSON (Ohio State University) in Early Modernity Probability and Genre in the Age of Pre- (University of Pennsylvania) Chair: DEBORAH WILLIS Statistical Risk Shakespeare and the Supernatural (University of California, Riverside) CAROLYN SALE (University of Alberta) Seminar Leader: JESSE M. LANDER (University of Notre Dame) HARRY BERGER, JR. (University of California, “The King is a thing”: Plowden’s Report of Santa Cruz) the “Case of Mines” and Shakespeare’s Shakespeare’s Comedy on Screen “Fenced ears”: The King’s Body Impolitic in Hamlet Seminar Leader: PATRICIA LENNOX Gorboduc, Richard II, and King Lear KAREN CUNNINGHAM (University of California, (New York University) SU FANG NG (University of Oklahoma) Los Angeles) Richard Brome and Piracy, Conversion, and Religious Heterodoxy: “Grant me justice”: Ladies at Law in Twelfth Night in a Global Mediterranean Shakespeare Caroline Drama Seminar Leaders: ELEANOR LOWE (Royal ADAM RZEPKA (University of Chicago) Holloway, University of London) and 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. “Rich eyes and poor hands”: Theaters of Early LUCY MUNRO (Keele University) Modern Experience SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS Letterwriting in Early Modern England ■ Classical Associations Beyond the Metropolis: Seminar Leaders: LYNNE MAGNUSSON Chair: RAPHAEL FALCO Regional and Continental (University of Toronto) and ALAN STEWART (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Contexts for English Theater (Columbia University) Seminar Leaders: KAREN BRITLAND LAURIE MAGUIRE (Magdalen College, University Representing the Renaissance of Oxford) (Keele University) and CLARE MCMANUS Representing Helen of Troy; or, What Did You (Roehampton University) in Modern Popular Culture Do in the War, Mummy? Seminar Leader: GREGORY M. COLÓN SEMENZA (University of Connecticut) HENRY S. TURNER (University of Wisconsin) Of Dramatology Tudor and Jacobean Women’s Religious Writing REBECA HELFER (University of California, Irvine) Seminar Leader: MICHELINE WHITE Remembering Rome in Titus Andronicus and (Carleton University) Hamlet ShakespeareWiki: A New Internet Tool for Teaching 12:00 noon to 2:30 p.m. Workshop Leader: ROBIN FARABAUGH (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) WORKSHOP FOR AREA TEACHERS
Shakespeare Set Free: An Active 7:00 to 9:15 p.m. Workshop on Teaching Shakespeare FILM SCREENING Workshop Leader: La Jolla Beach. Photo courtesy of San Diego JEREMY EHRLICH (Folger Shakespeare Library) Convention and Visitors Bureau. As You Like It Directed by Kenneth Branagh, produced by Re-Sounding Shakespeare 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. HBO Films. Seminar Leaders: LESLIE DUNN (Vassar PAPER SESSIONS College) and WES FOLKERTH (McGill University) Open to all registrants of the 35th Annual Meeting and their guests. For more informa- ■ Shakespeare and the Trace of Shakespeare and the tion, see page 9 of this bulletin. Question of Time, Part Two Theology Seminar Leader: LOWELL GALLAGHER Chair: VALERIE WAYNE (University of California, Los Angeles) 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. (University of Hawai’i, M¯anoa) The Varied Politics of Early Modern SAA/Malone Society Dance BRIAN CUMMINGS (University of Sussex) with live music by Tom Berger and Loving Lear Historiography Seminar Leader: PETER C. HERMAN the Hey Nonny Nonnies. THOMAS FULTON (Rutgers University) (San Diego State University) Theocracy and the Bible in Measure for To purchase ticket(s), see page 11 of this Measure Biography and the bulletin. Early Modern Stage JAMES KEARNEY (University of California, Santa Barbara) Seminar Leader: DAVID KATHMAN A Surplus of Grace: The Impossibility of the (Chicago, Illinois) Gift and The Winter’s Tale 5 81798.qxd:80124_newsletter.qxd 1/12/07 9:26 AM Page 6
REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION
All current members of the Shakespeare Asso- ciation are welcome to register for the 35th Annual Meeting in San Diego. SAA membership dues are assessed by the EETING academic year and were payable in Fall, 2006. Membership may be renewed or initi- ated online at
SAA members receive deep discounts to the annual journals Shakespeare Studies (list price $60.00, SAA price $48.00); Shakespeare Survey (list price $95.00, SAA price $55.00), and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in Eng- land (list price $72.50, SAA price $65.00). To subscribe to these three journals or to Shake- speare Newsletter, please consult the Mem- bership Dues Form in the June 2006 bulletin or the SAA website. SAA members also receive a $5.00 discount off the regular subscription rates for Shake- speare Quarterly. Subscription orders should be placed directly with The Johns Hopkins University Press, by phone at 1.800.548.1784 or 410.516.6987, or by fax at 410.516.6968. Members should be sure to mention their SAA membership in good standing.
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PROTOCOLS FOR SAA PROGRAMS GRADUATE STUDENT MEMBERS IN MEMORIAM
Thomas Moisan, former chair of the English The Shakespeare Association of America takes department at St. Louis University, died 30 For Seminars and Workshops pleasure in welcoming dissertation-stage grad- July of cancer. Born in New York City, he uate students to its membership. In San Diego earned a BA from the College of the Holy Cross the Trustees of the SAA will host a Continental Shakespeare Association seminars and work- in Worcester, MA, and his doctorate from Breakfast for all graduate students attending shops are designed to serve as forums for fresh Harvard. He taught at Middlebury College, the conference. They welcome the opportu- research, mutual criticism, and pedagogical Arkansas State University, and the University nity to meet their future colleagues and to and technological experimentation among of Mary Washington before joining the SLU learn of any special needs and concerns grad- members with specialized interests and areas faculty to serve as chair in 1989. He held that uate students bring to the SAA. of expertise. Each program requires advance position for ten years. In recent years, Graduate Student Travel Awards are avail- work on the part of its members, and this Professor Moisan directed the department's able to support dissertation-level students work, which may include papers, bibliogra- graduate program and headed the College of whose research will be most enhanced by sem- phies, exercises, and other exchanges, must Arts and Sciences’ committee on academic inar participation. Awards have been made for be duplicated and circulated to the program’s honesty. He also served as president of the the 2007 conference. The application deadline full membership for receipt by 1 February Arts and Sciences faculty council. for the 2008 conference is 15 November 2007. 2007. Professor Moisan published essays on Application information will appear in the It is assumed that seminars and workshops numerous Shakespeare texts including Romeo June 2007 Bulletin. will be conducted as gatherings of professional and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Graduate students may volunteer to assist colleagues, in an atmosphere of shared Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and others, in conference administration. The meeting respect, and with balanced concern for both and edited the collection In the Company of registration fee is waived for those who work individual contributions and corporate Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of G. Blakemore for eight to ten hours at the registration tables endeavors. SAA policy is that all seminar and Evans (2002). He was editor of Allegorica, a and/or special events. These positions will be workshop members are entitled to receive journal of Medieval and Renaissance scholar- awarded on a first-come, first-recruited basis. comments on and discussion of their work, ship, and was active in RSA, MLA, the Malone Those interested should contact the SAA assuming that work has been submitted by the Society, and the South Central Renaissance offices. deadline and has been circulated to other Conference, in addition to his participation in members of the group. Every member of a SAA. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, T. seminar or workshop should be given a chance ROOM SHARE Christine Stevens. to speak, and no one should be allowed to monopolize the conversation. With few To help reduce lodging expenses, the SAA Sasha Roberts, Lecturer in the School of (announced) exceptions, seminars and work- assists members seeking roommates at the English at the University of Kent in shops are open to auditors. Auditors are per- conference facility. Inquiries should be made Canterbury, was killed in an auto accident on mitted to join the discussion only when invited by phone (410.455.6788), fax (410.455.1063), 7 September. Dr. Roberts earned her PhD and to do so by the seminar or workshop leader(s), or e-mail
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The Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, site of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Shake- speare Association of America, is located on San Diego Bay, offering stunning views of the bay and of the city skyline. The hotel houses guests in two towers and offers three swim- ming pools (one especially for children), ten- nis courts, a spa and health club, jogging trails, and bicycle rentals. All guest rooms are equipped with Internet access (a charge of $11.95 per day applies), as well as speaker phone, coffee maker, ironing board, iron, and hairdryer. The hotel provides free shuttle service from tower to tower as well as free service to and from the San Diego International Airport. A variety of dining options is found on the hotel grounds. The casual Tapatini’s offers tapas and drinks from 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. The Harbor’s Edge Restaurant, The Reflecting Pool in Balboa Park. Photo courtesy of San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau. famous for seafood and steaks, features a continental cuisine enjoyed on a terrace ■ CAR RENTAL DISCOUNT ■ GROUND TRANSPORT overlooking the marina. Alfiere’s offers Avis offers discounted rates to SAA members, The Sheraton Hotel and Marina offers free Italian and Mediterranean fare in the day valid 29 March through 14 April 2007. Cars shuttle service to and from the San Diego and evening. may be rented from any San Diego location. International Airport, departing from both the To reserve an Avis car, phone East and West Terminals. Shuttles depart 800.331.1600 and ask for Avis Worldwide Dis- every 15 to 20 minutes from 5:00 a.m. until count (AWD) number J626842. Reservations 11:30 p.m. From the Baggage Claim area, fol- may also be placed at
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A SSOCIATED
Thursday 6:00 p.m. VENTS Opening Reception: E The Prado at Balboa Park
To celebrate the Association’s 35th Anniversary, we’ll transport members and their guests to San Diego’s Balboa Park, to the ensemble of buildings designed by Bertram Goodhue for the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park in 1915. Goodhue's Spanish colonial designs helped to persuade the denizens of Southern California that they wanted their buildings to look like Spain and Mexico and not (as in San Francisco and the older parts of LA) like Atcheson and Topeka. Bryce Dallas Howard as Rosalind in Branagh’s As You Like It. Photo courtesy of HBO Films. The Opening Reception will be held in the Prado Restaurant, in spaces that recall the Friday 6:00 p.m. Saturday 7:00 p.m. refectory and cloisters of a Mexican convent. Performance: Film Screening: The award-winning Prado is celebrated for its Lucie Skeaping: The English Latin/Italian fusion cuisine and stunning Kenneth Branagh’s atmosphere. We will toast the SAA and one Broadside Ballad As You Like It another in the historic Grand Ballroom and in the Garden Courtyard. Join musician, writer, and BBC broadcaster The SAA proudly presents a screening of ★★★★ Lucie Skeaping for a 75-minute heady musical director Kenneth Branagh’s imaginative -California Restaurant Writers’ Assoc. mix of everything from political commentary adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic As You Like and religion to royal gossip, marital advice, It, which celebrates the enduring power of America’s Best Restaurant Award remedies, racism, and sex. English broadside love in all its many disguises. Witty, playful, -Gourmet Magazine ballads were both the popular songs and the and utterly magical, the story is a compelling Best New Restaurant, 2000 tabloid press of their day, and they were set romantic adventure in which Rosalind and -San Diego Magazine to some of the most delightful tunes England Orlando’s celebrated courtship is played out has ever produced. These ballads reveal a against a backdrop of political rivalry, Best New Restaurant, 2000 world remarkably similar to our own. banishment, and exile in the Forest of Arden— Best Casual Dining, 2004 Ms. Skeaping specializes in the reconstruc- set here in nineteenth-century Japan. -California Restaurant Association tion and performance of sixteenth- and sev- Marking Branagh’s fifth Shakespearean enteenth-century English popular music and screen adaptation, As You Like It features a performs throughout the world. This presen- Thursday 9:00 p.m. cast that includes Brian Blessed, Romola Garai, Play Reading: tation features musical examples and Bryce Dallas Howard, Kevin Kline, Adrian explores the context in which broadside bal- Lester, Janet McTeer, Alfred Molina, and David Thomas Middleton's lads were written and sold, their language, Oyelowo. The film is produced by HBO Films No Wit, No Help Like a printing, and musical references. Ms. Skeap- and will be released in theaters in August, Woman's ing will be joined by lutenist Robin Jeffrey. 2007. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the All registrants for the 35th Annual Meeting Has Philip Twilight married his own sister? door. To purchase tickets, see page 11 of and their guests are welcome. Will Master Low-water lose his wife to the this bulletin. adulterous advances of the lecherous Lambstone? And who is this gallant young Saturday 10:00 p.m. gentleman whom Lady Goldenfleece has fallen in love with? Find out when you join The SAA SAA members for a reading of Middleton’s and Malone Society Dance city comedy of incest, meteorology, and little Dutch boys. Read a part (or multiple parts), Last year’s event was such a blast, we’re or simply sit and listen. This event is spon- looking for more of the same. The SAA and sored by the Shakespeare Bulletin. Malone Society welcome back Tom Berger and the Hey Nonny Nonnies. If you missed All registrants for the 35th Annual Meeting their Philly gig, now’s your chance to see Tom and their guests are welcome. rock the house.
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■ MUSEUMS
The San Diego Museum of Art has been the region’s primary resource for exhibi- tions and collections of fine art for more than seventy-five years. Located in the heart of Balboa Park, the museum galleries offer opportunities for learning, introspection, and connection with cultures from around the world. On exhibit in April is “Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005,” which includes personal and professional images from the internationally renowned photogra- pher. The musuem’s permanent collection fea- tures European old masters, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art, and Latin American art. The museum is open until 9:00 p.m. on Thursdays. For additional museum hours and admission prices, phone 619.232.7931. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe. The San Diego Museum of Man is a cultural and physical anthropology museum ■ ■ dedicated to the collection, preservation, BEACH BABY THE OLD GLOBE interpretation, and communication of evi- San Diego has over seventy miles of beaches The internationally acclaimed Old Globe is dence of human development. The exhibit including some of the best in the world: Mis- one of the most renowned regional theaters in “Guatemala! Celebrations of Weaving” will be sion Beach, Pacific Beach, La Jolla, Coronado, the country (you saw it in Shakespeare In on display in April and features textiles made Del Mar, and North County beaches like Encini- Love). The Old Globe produces a year-round by women of the Mayan villages in Guatemala. tas and Carlsbad. (Mission and Pacific Beaches season of fifteen plays and musicals on its The clothing items shown in this exhibit were are a mere ten minutes from the conference three stages, including its highly-regarded chosen principally for their beauty. The hotel.) Surfers flock to San Diego, and they say Shakespeare festival. The Globe has become a museum is located in Balboa Park. For more it’s never too late to learn. For private lessons gathering place for leading theater artists information, phone 619.239.2001. try Menehune Surf Shop at 888.663.7299. from around the world, such as Tom Stoppard, Daniel Sullivan, and Chita Rivera (among many The Maritime Museum of San others). Numerous Broadway-bound premieres Diego enjoys a worldwide reputation for ■ WALK ON THE WILD SIDE and revivals have been developed at The Old excellence in restoring, maintaining, and Globe and have gone on to enjoy highly suc- operating historic vessels. The museum has San Diego’s World Famous Zoo is cessful runs in New York and at regional the- one of the world’s finest collections of historic home to 4,000 rare and endangered animals aters across the country. See the performance ships, including the world-famous Star of representing more than 800 species and sub- listings below for the theatre’s offering in India. In April the museum presents “Pirates of species, as well as a prominent botanical col- April. the Pacific,” highlighting the exploits of lection with more than 700,000 exotic plants. William Dampier, a sophisticated buccaneer Wild Animal Park is an expansive who mixed an interest in natural science and ■ PERFORMANCES geography with a lust for adventure. The wildlife sanctuary that includes more than museum is open daily (including holidays) and 3,500 animals representing more than 400 Enchanted April by Johanna McClelland, based is located at 1492 North Harbor Drive species. Over half of the Park’s 1,800 acres on the novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim and pre- (619.234.9153). have been set aside as protected native sented by Lamb’s Players Theatre, San Diego’s species habitat. leading ensemble theatre (619.437.0600). The Reuben H. Fleet Science Four disillusioned strangers rent a villa in Italy Center, located in Balboa Park, is home to Sea World San Diego is a unique com- to escape their grey lives and grey English the world’s first (and San Diego’s only) IMAX bination of adventure park and marine zoo, weather. Dome Theater. The Center’s “Sky Tonight” featuring animal exhibits and shows, educa- shows cover the sky in San Diego as it appears tional presentations, and waterpark rides. Restoration Comedy by Lynn Nottage, pre- on the night of the show as well as some addi- sented by the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa tional information on particular astronomy Park (619.238.0043). A bawdy new romantic topics. In April the Center hosts “Grossology: comedy that mines the wit, style, and sexual The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body.” 3-for-1 Pass intrigues of late seventeenth-century London. For showtimes, tickets and exhibit informa- The San Diego 3-for-1 Pass offers unlimited tion, phone 619.238.233. San Diego Symphony Winter Pops: A Gershwin admission to the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Salute (619.235.0804). Conductor Marvin Wild Animal Park, and Sea World for up to five Hamlish leades the orchestra and welcomes consecutive days for less than the price of one For more information pianist Kevin Cole in a performance of Gersh- day’s admission to each park. on these and other San Diego win favorites. For more information, visit sites and activities, visit
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Photo at right: The Albin O. Kuhn Library, home of the SAA office on the campus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
O UR HOSTS IN SAN DIEGO The SAA is grateful to these generous sponsors of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting: Chapman University; University of California, Davis; University of California, Irvine; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, San Diego; Pepperdine University; University of Southern California; and Stanford University. Local Arrangements have been directed by Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California) and Peter C. Herman (San Diego State University). E NGLISH BROADSIDE BALLADS On Friday evening, 6 April, British singer and broadcaster Lucie Skeaping will present a 75-minute illustrated lecture-recital on “The English Broadside Ballad: Street Songs of the Seventeenth Century.” The program will be based on Ms. Skeaping’s book Broadside Ballads (Faber Music) and her CD Penny Merriments (Naxos). Presenter of BBC Radio 3’s “Early Music Show,” Lucie Skeaping will be joined by lutenist Robin Jeffrey. For more information, see page 9 of this bulletin. B OOK HOTEL BY 5 MARCH The Sheraton Hotel and Marina guarantees the special SAA discounted room rate through 5 March 2007 only. Reserve your accommodations immediately. See page 8 of this bulletin for more information on reserving a room by phone or online. A Hotel Reservation Form is also enclosed and may be sent by mail or fax to the Sheraton. B ALLOTS IN 2007 Members in good standing may participate in the 2007 election by voting either online at
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