Saturday, April 19th, 2008
9:00-5:00
Worcester State College, Worcester, MA
Papers may explore:
- how Shakespeare and his contemporaries confirm,
interrogate, challenge sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century views of the natural and the unnatural.
- how stagings, criticisms, films, and interpretations of works
over time reflect
changing perspectives on what is natural or unnatural.
- how the supernatural, especially, embodies views on what is
natural or unnatural,
what is the proper order of creation.
- how do Gods, (Christian and PreChristian), wise/holy men and
women, mages,
visions and visionaries, demons, witches, and fairies embody or define
conceptions
of Self and Other, fears about gender, racial, national or religious
differences.
- how does the supernatural represent the power of the imagination
to serve as
a conduit to the transcendent or to the demonic.
Registration for conference: $10.00
