[Candrama] CFP: ACCUTE Panel on Slings & Arrows

[Kailin Wright]

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Call for Papers: Panel on Slings & Arrows: Shakespeare and Canada

Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference, Toronto, 2017 https://accute.ca/accute-conference/accute-cfp-jointly-sponsored-panels/#CSA


Slings & Arrows: Shakespeare and Canada

Co-sponsoring Organization: Canadian Shakespeare Association (CSA/ACS)
Organizers: Kailin Wright (St. Francis Xavier University); Don Moore (University of Guelph); Andrew Bretz (Wilfrid Laurier University).

Slings & Arrows explores how Canadian theatre represents Shakespeare but also how Shakespeare represents Canada. The hit Canadian television series dramatizes the inner workings of Canada's Stratford Theatre Festival or what the show calls "the New Burbage Festival." In each of the three seasons, New Burbage mounts a Shakespearean tragedy-Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, respectively-as the backstage actors re-live the narrative. A popular series in Canada and abroad: the show won 22 television awards; received rave reviews in the United States; and the Brazil adaptation, Som e Fúria earned audiences of 18 million. Slings & Arrows performs national identity and in doing so satirizes both Canada as a nation and Shakespeare as a high-art object of veneration. This panel aims to examine this quintessentially Canadian television series in the context of intermediality, national identity, and Shakespeare studies. Papers on a range of topics related to Slings & Arrows are welcome, including the following:

·     Intermediality
·     Adaptation
·     Nationhood
·     Shakespeare
·     Hauntings
·     Culture
·     Audience
·     Satire
·     History

Please send the following: A file containing a 300 to 500-word paper proposal, without personal identifying marks; A file containing a 100-word abstract and a 50-word biographical statement; the 2017 Proposal Information Sheet<https://accutecanada.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/2017-proposal-info-sheet.docx> Proposal Information Sheet available on the ACCUTE website. All proposals should be sent to CSA.ACS.English at gmail.com<mailto:CSA.ACS.English at gmail.com>


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Kailin Wright, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
English Department
St. Francis Xavier University
PO Box 5000
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Canada, B2G 2W5
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