SHAKESPEARE MAN OF THE THEATRE I SECOND CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 1 - 7 AUGUST 1981 Hosts The International Shakespeare Association The Shakespeare Association of America The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham The Royal Shakespeare Theatre PRINTED BY fO,ot STRATFORD - UPON - AVON THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION President: Sir John Gielgud Vice-President: Maynard Mack (Yale University) Chairman: Kenneth Muir (University of Liverpool) Vice-Chairman and Secretary: Levi Fox (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Treasurer: Roger Pringle (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Executive Committee: ]. Leeds Barroll (Shakespeare Association of America) Michel Grivelet (University of Dijon) S. C. Sen Gupta (Calcutta) Werner Habicht (Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West) THE SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA G. R. Hibbard (University of Waterloo) Eldred Jones (University of Sierra Leone) OFFICERS 1980-1981 Nico Kiasashvili (Tbilisi State University) Jung-hwi Kwon (Shakespeare Society of Korea) Martin Lehnert (Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft) D. F. McKenzie (Victoria University of Wellington) President: S. Schoenbaum (University of Maryland) Jiro Ozu (Shakespeare Society of Japan) Executive Secretary: Ann Jennalie Cook (Vanderbilt University) Administrative Assistants: Nancy Elizabeth Hodge (Vanderbilt University) Rosemary Allen (Vanderbilt University) Trustees: John Andrews (Folger Shakespeare Library) CONGRESS COMMITTEE Stephen Booth (University of California, Berkeley) Joan Hartwig (University of Kentucky) Chairman: Kenneth Muir (University of Liverpool) Jill Levenson (University of Toronto) Secretary: Levi Fox (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Jeanne Roberts (American University) Treasurer: Roger Pringle (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Charles Shattuck (University of Illinois) Nigel Alexander (University of London) Susan Snyder (Swarthmore College) David Brierley (Royal Shakespeare Theatre) R. W. Van Fossen (University of Toronto) Philip Brockbank (Shakespeare Institute) Gareth Lloyd Evans (University of Birmingham) ]. R. Mulryne (University of Warwick) D. ]. Palmer (University of Manchester) R. L. Smallwood (Shakespeare Institute) Stanley Wells (Oxford University Press) Congress Office Assistants: Marjorie Lea (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Marcia McDonald (Belmont College) Marian]. Pringle (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Jenny Robinson (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Members of the Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon 2 3 GENERAL INFORMATION Except for the two Plenary Sessions, only registered delegates may attend the proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association Congress. Registration is open to members of the Interna­ tional Shakespeare Association, the Shakespeare Association of America and all other affiliated Shakespeare associations. Delegates are asked to wear their badges whenever they attend sessions of the Congress. Unless this is done, difficulties concerning admission may arise. Seminars The Seminars are open only to those listed in the programme. However, a limited number of LOCATION OF EVENTS auditors may attend by arrangement with the Congress Office though auditors may not par­ ticipate in the discussion. Delegates will receive a map of the town on which locations for Congress events are marked. These are as follows: Forums Forums on Shakespeare in the Theatre are being held on Thursday, 6 August, and will base their The Congress Headquarters at the Stratford Hilton, Bridgefoot discussion on questions submitted in writing before 7.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 5 August. Ques­ tions, which must be signed, may be placed in the box provided on the Congress Office desk. The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street Please note that entrance to the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Wolfson Hall is via the Workshops with Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company Visitors' Centre entrance. The entrance nearest to Shakespeare's Birthplace should be used only for the Shakespeare Centre Library and for the exhibition, All the The Chairmen of the Workshops on the afternoons of 3, 5 and 6 August will be Ronald Bryden World's a Stage. (University of Toronto), Maurice Daniels (Royal Shakespeare Theatre) and J. R. Mulryne (University of Warwick). Delegates wishing to attend a Workshop session should obtain a pass The Shakespeare Institute, Church Street from the Congress Office. As numbers have to be restricted, early application is advised. The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Waterside Meals and Coffee/Tea Breaks The Other Place, Southern Lane Coffee and biscuits will be available free to delegates at the Stratford Hilton (Foyer) and at the Shakespeare Centre (King James I Lounge) from 10.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. on Monday to Thurs­ Hall's Croft, Old Town day. Tea and biscuits will be provided at 3.30 p.m. each day at the various venues being used for the Seminars. Holy Trinity Church, Old Town The Congress Luncheon on Friday, 7 August, is included in the Congress registration fee. No other meals are covered by the fees paid to the Association. King Edward VI School, Church Street 4 5 PROGRAMME Session 2 (Shakespeare Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall) Chairman: Ruth Nevo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Historic and Iconic Time in Late Tudor Drama. Bernard Beckerman (Columbia University) Shakespeare Imagines a Theatre. Stephen Orgel (The Johns SATURDAY, I AUGUST Hopkins University) 10.30 a.m. Coffee 1.00 p.m. Registration (Stratford Hilton, Foyer) 8.00 p.m. Reception for all delegates (Stratford Hilton, Ballroom) 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Session 3 (Stratford Hilton, Ballroom) Chairman: G. K. Hunter (Yale University) Drama and Society in Shakespeare 's Theatre. SUNDAY, 2 AUGUST Robert Weimann (Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin) 9.00 a.m. Registration (Stratford Hilton, Foyer) Session 4 (Shakespeare Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall) Chairman: Eldred Jones (University of Sierra Leone) 11.00 a.m. Congress Service at Holy Trinity Church: Morning Prayer based 'To the judgement of your Eye ': Emblems and the on the Elizabethan Prayer Book (1559) Theatrical Art of 'Pericles'. Mary Judith Dunbar Preacher: The Reverend Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant (University of Santa Clara) 2.30 p.m. Plenary Session 1 (Royal Shakespeare Theatre) Shakespeare and a Cry of Players. John Russell Brown Presiding: Kenneth Muir (Chairman of the International (University of Sussex) Shakespeare Association) S. Schoenbaum (President of the Shakespeare 2.30 p.m. Workshop with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company under Association of America) the direction of John Barton and Trevor Nunn (Shakespeare Cen­ Inaugural Lecture: John Mortimer, Shakespeare and a Playwright tre, Queen Elizabeth Hall) of Today 4.00 p.m. Garden Parties (Hall's Croft and the Shakespeare Institute) 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Seminars I-VI Delegates will receive an invitation card admitting them to one or other of the venues. Seminar I: 'Bad Quartos' as Documents of the Theatre (Shakespeare Centre, Wolfson Hall) 8.00 p.m. William : the Conqueror (Royal Shakespeare Theatre) Chairman: Paul Werstine (King's College, University of Western A Shakespearian recital, devised by Roger Pringle and presented by John Gielgud, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Richard Pasco and Robert Ontario) Spencer (lute and songs) John F. Andrews (Folger Shakespeare Library); David George (Fisk University); Brian Gibbons (University of York); Gerald D. Johnson (University of Alabama, Birmingham); T. J. King (City College of New York); William B. Long (A.M.S. Press); Randall McLeod (University of Toronto); S. W. Reid (Kent State Universi­ MONDAY, 3 AUGUST ty); Marvin Spevack (University of Munster); Gary Taylor (Oxford SHAKESPEARE AND THE THEATRE OF HIS TIME University Press); Sidney Thomas (Syracuse University); Steven Urkowitz (State University of New York, Maritime College) 9.00 a.m. Registration (Stratford Hilton, Congress Office) 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. Session 1 (Stratford Hilton, Ballroom) Chairman: Philip Brockbank (Shakespeare Institute) The Many-beaded Audience. Andrew Gurr (University of Reading) 6 7 Seminar II: The Court Theatres (Stratford Hilton, Conway Seminar V: Elements of Liturgy and Ritual in Shakespearian Room) Peiformance (Shakespeare Institute, Lounge) Chairman: Glynne Wickham (University of Bristol) Chairman: R. Chris Hassel, Jr. (Vanderbilt University) Herbert Berry (University of Saskatchewan); Ian Burton Roy Battenhouse (Indiana University); Hoyt E. Bowen (Western (University of Bristol); Sheila Fulton (University College of North Kentucky University); Dolora Cunningham (San Francisco State Wales, Bangor); William Ingram (University of Toronto); Roslyn University); David 0. Dickerson (Seattle Pacific University); L. Knutson (University of Arkansas); Richard C. Kohler Hugh L. Hennedy (St. Francis College, University of New (University of San Diego); Oliver Neville (University of Bristol); England); F. G. Laroque (University of Montpellier); John John Orrell (University of Alberta); Don Rowan (University of William Mahon (lona College, New York); Hassell B. Sledd New Brunswick); Andrew Sabol (Brown University) (Slippery Rock State College); George W. Slover (University of Massachusetts, Boston); Carolyn Ruth Swift (Rhode Island College); W. B. Thome (Queen's University, Ontario) Seminar III: The Playwright in his World: Patterns in Shakespeare 's Transformation of Sources (Stratford Hilton, Seymour Room) Seminar VI: Pageantry in the Shakespearian Theatre (Stratford Chairman: Meredith