News: Upcoming Projects
A short post. I have two projects coming up, and some thanks to share:
First, thanks: Last week's post attracted many views from about 19 different countries. I'm very grateful for your readership. If you didn't get a chance to read it, here's the link to that "GREATEST HITS post:
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/12/top-20-hamlet-bible-posts.html
Two items of news:
1. At the spring, 2020 Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) conference in Denver, there will be a seminar called “Shakespeare and the Mind: Cognition, Emotion, Affect."
Those of you who follow my blog know I have been thinking about fear and dread (Laertes calling Claudius his “dread lord,” Hamlet fearing the ghost). Those of you who have read my fall series on “Labors of Gratitude and Regret” in Hamlet know that I have been pondering the transformative possibilities of gratitude and regret, and also their roots in biblical thought and Christian liturgy.
I will be a part of that seminar and am preparing a paper for it. That’s exciting.
I am working on my abstract for the paper. (Can Kandinsky help set the mood? Haha)
2. I have been thinking about some of the major authors who have written about Shakespeare and the Bible: Naseeb Shaheen draws in part on the work of his predecessors, Charles Wordsworth, Thomas Carter, and Richmond Noble. But there are a few other major authors such as William Burgess, Peter Millward, and Hannibal Hamlin.
I have often written of how I’m more interested in certain plot echoes in Hamlet than I am in some of the more superficial and obvious allusions, but these are not unimportant, and ideally the more subtle plot echoes and more difficult-to-spot allusions compliment those that are more explicit.
So I hope to take one scene at a time, and examine what each of the seven authors have to contribute, as well as other insights by certain other scholars, and my own:
Charles Wordsworth
Thomas Carter
William Burgess
Richmond Noble
Naseeb Shaheen
Peter Milward
Hannibal Hamlin
One scene at a time - how much do they agree upon? How do they differ? How do other insights round out, complete, or fill in gaps they left?
That will be my next extended series of posts.
But for the Christmas season, I hope to take a break and post a few links to a few other favorite sources.
Thanks for reading, keep tuned, and if you observe holidays in December, I hope they are happy.
First, thanks: Last week's post attracted many views from about 19 different countries. I'm very grateful for your readership. If you didn't get a chance to read it, here's the link to that "GREATEST HITS post:
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/12/top-20-hamlet-bible-posts.html
Two items of news:
1. At the spring, 2020 Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) conference in Denver, there will be a seminar called “Shakespeare and the Mind: Cognition, Emotion, Affect."
Those of you who follow my blog know I have been thinking about fear and dread (Laertes calling Claudius his “dread lord,” Hamlet fearing the ghost). Those of you who have read my fall series on “Labors of Gratitude and Regret” in Hamlet know that I have been pondering the transformative possibilities of gratitude and regret, and also their roots in biblical thought and Christian liturgy.
I will be a part of that seminar and am preparing a paper for it. That’s exciting.
I am working on my abstract for the paper. (Can Kandinsky help set the mood? Haha)
2. I have been thinking about some of the major authors who have written about Shakespeare and the Bible: Naseeb Shaheen draws in part on the work of his predecessors, Charles Wordsworth, Thomas Carter, and Richmond Noble. But there are a few other major authors such as William Burgess, Peter Millward, and Hannibal Hamlin.
I have often written of how I’m more interested in certain plot echoes in Hamlet than I am in some of the more superficial and obvious allusions, but these are not unimportant, and ideally the more subtle plot echoes and more difficult-to-spot allusions compliment those that are more explicit.
So I hope to take one scene at a time, and examine what each of the seven authors have to contribute, as well as other insights by certain other scholars, and my own:
Charles Wordsworth
Thomas Carter
William Burgess
Richmond Noble
Naseeb Shaheen
Peter Milward
Hannibal Hamlin
One scene at a time - how much do they agree upon? How do they differ? How do other insights round out, complete, or fill in gaps they left?
That will be my next extended series of posts.
But for the Christmas season, I hope to take a break and post a few links to a few other favorite sources.
Thanks for reading, keep tuned, and if you observe holidays in December, I hope they are happy.
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