The 13th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference Agenda
The 13th Annual SASC will begin at 7:30pm on Thursday, 16 April, with a performance of Hank Whittemore's acclaimed play, Shakespeare's Treason. The conference will close at 5:00pm on Sunday, 19 April.
The Awards Banquet will convene at 6:30pm on Saturday, 18 April at The University Club (1225 SW 6th Avenue).
The conference, at its awards banquet, will confer its Award for Distinguished Scholarship on two recipients this year: author Robin Williams and editor/librarian William Boyle. The annual Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award will be conferred on National Public Radio host, Renee Montagne.
The 13th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference
All sessions - with the exception of the Awards Banquet that will convene at the University Club (1225 SW 6th Avenue) - will take place in the Luther Hall Auditorium on the CU campus.
| Thursday, 16 April | |
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| 7:30 - 10:00 pm | Shakespeare's Treason - a dramatization of the story of Shake-speares Sonnets by Hank Whittemore (followed by Q&A with the playwright) |
| Friday, 17 April | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Lamberto Tassinari; Montreal, Quebec: "Shakespeare's Poetry in the Words of John Florio" |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Dr Peter McIntosh; Sydney, Australia: "A Scientist Looks at Shakespeare's Sonnets: Part One: Questions of Identity in Sonnets 1-126; Part Two: Sonnets to the Dark Lady" |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Lynne Kositsky; Toronto, Ontario: "The Mouse and the Lion: Responses from an Orthodox Source" |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Prof Roger Stritmatter; Baltimore, Maryland: "Where in the World? Geography and Irony in The Tempest" |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:45 | Keynote Address: Ramon Jimenez; Berkeley, California: "The Ur-Hamlet and its Seven Siblings: Explorations in Shakespeare's Dramatic Juvenilia" |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Dr Earl Showerman; Jacksonville, Oregon: "Bottom's Dream: Herculean Farce as Political Allegory" |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Break |
| 4:15 - 5:00 | Richard Whalen; Truro, Massachusetts: "Othello's Harbingers on Cyprus Suggest in Their Dramatic Poetry that the Dramatist Had Been There" |
| Saturday, 18 April | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Prof Ren Draya; Carlinville, Illinois: "Shakespeare's Songs, with Special Attention to Othello" |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Prof Michael Delahoyde; Pullman, Washington: "Lyric Poetry from Chaucer to Shakespeare" |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Jacob Hughes; Pullman, Washington: "Shakespeare the Chaucerian" |
| 11:30 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Hank Whittemore; Nyack, New York: "Love Triangle or Family Triangle? A Study of Sonnets 40, 41 and 42" |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | William Boyle; Boston, Massachusetts: "Shakespeare and the Royal Prerogative: A Never-told Tale of the Poet-Philosopher King and His Monarch" |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 - 4:30 | Prof Maurice Holland; Eugene, Oregon: "Misprision of Treason: A Look at Elizabethan Law in the Context of the Essex Rebellion" |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Prof Daniel Wright; Portland, Oregon: "Phoenix Rising: Recovering Authorial Intent in Interpreting Shakespeare's 'Phoenix and the Turtle'" |
| 6:30 - 10:00 | Awards Banquet The banquet will feature awards presented to, and remarks by, NPR “Morning Edition” host, Renee Montagne; librarian William Boyle; and author Robin Williams |
| Sunday, 19 April | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Robin Williams; Santa Fe, New Mexico: "Mary Sidney: The Sweet Swan of Avon" |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Dr Michael Egan; Honolulu, Hawaii: "Shakespeare's Authorship of The Tragedy of Richard II, Part One: Evidence and its Interpretation" |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Break |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Bill Boyle and Prof Daniel Wright: A 'SOAR'ing Demonstration |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Prof Sam Saunders; Kirkland, Washington: "Do Shakespeare's Sonnets Exhibit Harmonic Balance?" |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Alex McNeil; Newton, Massachusetts: "Sonnets 153 and 154" |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Announcements by Special Guests |
| 3:00 - 5:00 | Hardhat tours of the nearly-complete Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre |
| 5:00 | Closing of the Conference |
