Call for Papers for Proposed Volume: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Its Afterlives

Co-editors: W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State University (wrampone [at] scsu.edu)

Molly Hand, Florida State University (mhand [at] fsu.edu)

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has inspired wonder since its initial performance. One of Shakespeare’s most lyrical comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is also a play that invokes international trade and pre-modern colonial contact zones, and it continues to both trouble and fascinate across global contexts. A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s global reception has provoked a wide array of adaptations and appropriations. This collection of essays seeks to explore A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s critical reception in primarily non-Anglophone/non-Western contexts including Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, South America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and other cultures and countries. 

Topics might include (but are by no means limited to):

• Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Past and Present on Stage in the non-Anglophone World
• Films, Adaptations, and Appropriations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Global Arena
• Post-coloniality and the Indian Boy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Premodern Critical Race Studies
• The Meanings and Representations of the Magic and Sorcery in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Problematics of Pedagogy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Undergraduate Classroom
• Animal Studies, Posthumanism, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Homosociality and Queer Affiliations in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Trans-formations: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Early Modern Trans Studies
• Disability in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Cultural Function of the Masque in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Green World and Beyond: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Ecocriticism
• Digital Appropriations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Please email abstracts of 500 words along with brief bio (50 words) to W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State University (wrampone [at] scsu.edu) and Molly Hand, Florida State University (mhand [at] fsu.edu) by January 15, 2025.