Past Celebrations (1992-2018)
Subjects and Guest Speakers by Year:
1992 -- "Interpretative Choices in the Theatre"
Guest Speaker: David Bevington, University of Chicago
1993 -- "The Tempest"
Guest Speakers: Loyola professors
1994 -- "The Faces of Shylock"
Guest Speaker: Michael Shapiro
1995 -- "The Choices of Desdemona, Emilia, and Othello"
Guest Speaker: Carol Thomas Neely, University of Illinois
Champagne-Urbana
1996 -- "Shakespeare's Fools"
Guest Speaker: Susanne L. Wofford, University of Wisconsin
1997 -- "Performing the Politics of Gender: Men + Women in Shakespeare's History Plays"
Guest Speaker: Jean E. Howard, Columbia University
1998 -- "Coming of Age in Verona: Manhood and Womanhood
in Romeo and Juliet"
Guest Speaker: Coppélia Kahn, Brown University
1999 -- "Acting (un) Shakespeare; or, Hamlet, Bad Quarto,
Good Play?"
Guest Speaker: William B. Worthen, University of California
2000 -- "Dream or Nightmare: Light and Dark in A Midsummer
Night's Dream, or A Good Bottom is Hard to Find"
Guest Speaker: Barbara Covington Hodgdon, Drake University
2001 -- "Girls May be Boys: Desiring Shakespeare's
Cross-Dressed Heroines"
Guest Speaker: Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University
2002 -- " 'Thy Speaking of My Tongue" The Languages of
Shakespeare's Plays"
Guest Speaker: Marvin Carlson, The City University of New York
2003 -- "Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Undead"
Guest Speaker: Frances E. Dolan, Miami University, Ohio
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2004 -- "Bangs & Whimpers: Scenes from two versions of
King Lear"
Guest Speaker: Richard Strier, University of Chicago
2005 -- "Shakespearean Laundry, or the Power of
Domestic Fantasy"
Guest Speaker: Wendy Wall, Northwestern University
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2006 -- "The Gravedigger's Forceps: Shakespeare on Beckett on Shakespeare"
Guest Speaker: Andrew Sofer, Boston College
2007 -- " 'Where Lies Your Text': Shakespeare in American Sign Language"
Guest Speaker: Peter Novak, University of San Francisco
2008 -- "An Islamic Othello: Shakespeare's Noble Moor and the Performance of Religious Difference"
Guest Speaker: Daniel Vitkus, Florida State University
2009 -- "Shakespeare! The Musical"
Guest Speaker: David Bell, Northwestern University
2010 -- "Dead Meat: Shakespeare Permutations of a Theatrical Moment"
Guest Speaker: Lois Potter, University of Delaware
2011 -- "Much Ado About Adapting Shakespeare"
Guest Speaker: M.J. Kidnie, University of Western Ontario
2012 -- "Performing the Storm in The Tempest"
Guest Speaker: Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame
2013 -- " 'What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?'; Spooky Shakespeare, Memory, and 9/11"
Guest Speaker: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University
2014 -- "Mistress Machiavel: Gender, Policy, and War in Henry V"
Guest Speaker: Donald Hedrick, Kansas State University
2015 -- "Green Creating Nature: Dynamic Ecologies in The Winter's Tale"
Guest Lecturer: Steve Mentz, St. John's University
2016 -- "Resurrecting Shakespeare's Clowns"
Guest Lecturer: Richard Preiss, University of Utah
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2017 -- "'This Borrow'd Likeness': Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Representation in Casting Shakespeare"
Guest Lecturer: Janna Segal, University of Louisville
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2018 -- "Upstart Crowds: Incitement and Control on Shakespeare's Stage"
Guest Lecturer: Sarah Neville, Ohio State University
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