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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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