MORE PARTICIPANTS AT SAA DENVER 2026
MORE PARTICIPANTS AT SAA DENVER 2026 My previous post named members in my seminar (Shakespeare and the Forms of Religion), but I met many other wonderful scholars in Denver for The Shakespeare Association of America 2026 conference. Here are six more: TOP (L-R): EVELYN GAJOWSKI is an author and one of the most prolific Shakespeare essay collection editors today. [1] ARNIE PERLSTEIN has long been a strong supporter of my work, and was presenting in a workshop on the afterlives of The Taming the Shrew. His focus was on Shakespeare’s influence on Jane Austen in works like Pride and Prejudice and he has a blog about Jane Austen’s works. [2] RICHARD STRIER (emeritus, U. of Chicago) has written a number of books that have had a profound effect on my thinking [3]. Strier nicely distinguishes between common scholarly assumptions and facts related to texts: “Interpretive conclusions, even widely held ones, do not become facts. That Hamlet delays in killing Claudius is a...