CFP: Shakespeare's Jests and Jesters (12/15/04; journal issue)
THE UPSTART CROW: A SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL
Call for Papers: "SHAKESPEARE'S JESTS AND JESTERS"
The Upstart Crow is currently accepting submissions for Volume XXIV
(2004), on "Shakespeare's Jests and Jesters." Diverse critical approaches
to this subject are welcome, especially performance-based, historical, and
theoretical methodologies. Relevant topics might include, but are not
limited to:
•the stage and performance history of jesters in Shakespeare's theater
•early modern actors who played jests and jesters
•modern and contemporary performance history of jests and jesters
•jest books and other sources for Shakespeare
•early modern royal and court jesters