11th World Shakespeare Congress, 18-24 July, 2021 (and raspberry picking time)
The 11th World Shakespeare Congress takes place this year from the 18th through the 24th of July. (Many thanks to a member of the Facebook “Shakespeare and Early Modern friends” forum for alerting readers to this.)
On Monday, July 19, this will include a panel/Q&A on Hamlet, from 11:10-11:40 Singapore Time. (Times on the program are all listed in Singapore Time, UTC+08).
There will be a Pre-Congress opening on July 1 which will feature
14 recorded panels,
10 online performances,
and 8 watch parties “with directors sharing and discussing clips.”
Register at http://www.wsc2021.org/registration.html
Program image (below raspberry pics) from http://wsc2021.org/wsc.pdf
My son is visiting from out of town, so we are doing some special activities with our son and daughter this week.
Also, it is raspberry-picking season in our backyard (we have 4 varieties of reds, one of blacks, and one of purples, all ripening and ready to pick each day, yielding many quarts for fresh eating and for use in jams).
Added to this, sadly, we also have friends and family struggling with illness, so my attention is otherwise occupied this week.
But next week I will offer yet another installment in my Lazarus-in-Hamlet series, so check back then for more!
Program for 11th World Shakespeare Congress, July 2021:
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I presented a paper on Dumb Show by considering a division in Christiandom between Catholics and Protestant divide on uses and abuses of Eucharistic upon the act of poisoning.
ReplyDeleteI need more information on Lay Anointing. Can it be provided?
I am sorry to say that I am unaware of abuses of Eucharist as poisoning.
DeleteBut one of my college professors (Rob Foy) used to note that Claudius performs something like a black mass with the poison chalice:
Claudius offers Hamlet the poison chalice (a word related to Eucharist) and the pearl (a word visually and figuratively related to the host in Eucharist), but as poison, these are not life-giving, and therefore are the opposite of Eucharist.
There may be other instances where Eucharist is literally or figuratively associated with poison:
Certainly some recusant Catholics believed that receiving Protestant communion was spiritually poisonous, and some Protestants felt the same way about Catholic communion.
On "Lay Anointing" -
not sure what you mean by this:
- The Catholic church has a sacrament of the anointing of the sick. It should be easy to get more information on that from a Google search. Unless you are interested in some information more specific to attitudes in Shakespeare's England?
Via Wikipedia: On the Elizabethan English church and sacraments:
'"Of Common Prayer and Sacraments" taught that although only baptism and the Eucharist were sacraments instituted by Christ other rites such as ordination had a sacramental character.'
Marshall 2017, pp. 458–459.
Marshall, Peter (2017). Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300170627.
In other words, the English church did NOT believe the anointing of sick laity was a sacrament instituted by Christ, but on the other hand, in practice, the English had long treated the "monarch's touch" as something akin to a sacrament, where the king or queen would touch the throat of a sick person and bless them, and the recipient believed that the monarch was God's representative on earth.
In the Catholic church there is an anointing of the dying (in last rites)
and an anointing with Chrism as part of the baptism and confirmation rites.