Centre for Renaissance Studies Annual Conference SHAKESPEARE'S CHILDREN / CHILDREN'S SHAKESPEARES   11th and 12th OCTOBER 2003   AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY ROEHAMPTON, LONDON UK sponsored by The Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies / The National Centre for Research in Children's Literature / The Schools of Arts, English and Modern Languages, and Humanities and Cultural Studies   CONFERENCE SCHEDULE   Saturday 11 October 9.00-10.00 Registration (Adam Room, Grove House, Froebel) 10.00-10.15 Welcome (The Portrait Room, Grove House) 10.15-11.15 (The Portrait Room, Grove House) The Turner Annual Renaissance Studies Lecture Catherine Belsey (University of Cardiff, UK): Shakespeare and the Boys 11.15-11.30 Coffee 11.30-1.00 Panels (Seminar Rooms, Grove House) SESSION A: Shakespeare for Children 1: The Lambs Davood Khazaie & Morteza Khosronejad (Persian Gulf University/Shiraz University, Iran) Techniques of Decentration in Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare Boika Sokolova (Birkbeck College, London University, UK) Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare in Bulgaria Winifred. F. Yin (Tunghai University, Taiwan) A Polished Diamond: The Thurston- Thompson-Chiswick Shakespeare SESSION B: Shakespeare, Childhoods, Performance I Daryll Grantley (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK) Perilous Childhood in the Tudor Interlude Edel Lamb (Queen's University, Belfast, UK) Theatrical Training, Education and Identity in the Children's Playing Companies of Renaissance London Lucy Munro (King's College London, UK) 'His begging trade, and bastard faculty': Children's Companies and the Boy Actor in Early Modern England Travis D. Williams (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Anti-Theatricalism and the Shakespearean Child Character SESSION C: Shakespeare and Early Modern Childhoods I Penny McCarthy (University of Glasgow , UK) 'I remember': The Prince in the Tower, Puck and Shakespeare's Childhood Mark Lawhorn (University of Hawaii, USA) The Authority of Youth in Love's Labour's Lost Joseph Campana (Cornell University, USA) King John: Or, Five Reasons to Kill a Child Sudeshna Kar Barua (University of Calcutta, India) Poor prattler? A Study of the Child and Power in Shakespeare Claire Busse (La Salle University, USA) ' Too Mean a Subject': Child Murder in Early Modern English Literature 1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.15 (The Portrait Room, Grove House) Panel: Reimagining Shakespeare for Children: authors discuss their work Chair: Naomi Miller (University of Arizona, USA) Michael Rosen (UK, Shakespeare: His Work and World, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) Introducing Shakespeare's Worlds Marcia Williams (UK, Mr William Shakespeare's Plays, Tales from Shakespeare: Seven Plays, Bravo, Mr William Shakespeare!) Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare! Geraldine McCaughrean (UK, Stories from Shakespeare) Killing Shakespeare Bruce Coville (USA, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night) Nutshells and Infinite Space: Stages of Adaptation 3.15-3.30 Tea 3.30-4.30 (The Portrait Room, Grove House) Plenary Lecture Richard Burt (University of Florida US): Shakespeare and Child Culture 4.45-6.15 Panels Session D: Shakespeare for Children 2: After the Lambs Angela Courtney (Indiana University, USA) Orson Welles's Everybody's Shakespeare Ursula Schmidt ( Johannes- Gutenburg University, Mainz, Germany/University of Glasgow, UK) Pedagogy, Poetry and Politics: Romeo and Juliet for Children Jim Casey (University of Alabama, USA) I'll met by moonlight, proud Tinkerbell': Community Theatre and the Disneyfication of A Midsummer Night's Dream Jessamy Harvey (Birkbeck College, University of London UK) Translating, adapting and censoring Shakespeare for Spanish children during the Francoist Regime (1939-75) Session E: Filming the Shakespearean Child James Brown (Middlesex University, UK) Sweet Dreams: Children in films of A Midsummer Night's Dream Jennifer Flaherty (University of North Carolina, USA) Through a Child's Eyes: Children in Julie Taymor's Titus Marta Minier (University of Hull, UK) Chewing on Shakespeare: A Case Study of Jimmy Neutron: Child Genius Janice Wardle (University of Central Lancashire, UK) The Semiotics of Anxiety: An investigation of the representation of childhood absence and loss in Shakespearean film   Session F: Shakespeare and Early Modern Childhoods 2 Rodolphe Blet (University of Tours, France) Pathos and Revelation through Childhood in Coriolanus Jennifer Higginbotham (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Shakespearean Girlhoods: Gender and Childhood in Shakespeare's England Patricia Lennox (New York University, USA) Remembering Hamnet: Shakespeare's Mourning Memorial Patricia Phillippy (Texas A&M University, USA) 'To eat the world's due': Procreation, Child-Loss and the Gendering of the Sonnet Manuela S. Rossini (University of Basel, Switzerland/University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Inventing the 'innocent child': The Winter's Tale 6.30-7.30 Drinks Reception Sunday 12 October 10.00-11.00 Plenary Lecture: (Kate Chedgzoy, University of Newcastle, UK) The Lonely Boys: Love, loss and redemption in narratives of the Shakespearean surrogate family 11.00-11.15 Coffee 11.15-12.30 Panel/Workshop; Shakespeare in Practice Session 1: Patrick Ryan and James Mayhew: Paint a Story, Tell a Picture: Shakespearean Storytelling Session 2: (Sam Robinson and Colin Cox (Will & Company), Ed Wilson (National Youth Theatre) Peter Reynolds) Royal National Theatre/University of Surrey Roehampton): Shakespeare and Theatre for Young People: A Transatlantic Dialogue SESSION 3: Kate May (USA): Screening of Shakespeare's Children, a documentary film 12.30-1.30 Lunch 1.45-2.45 (The Portrait Room, Grove House) Plenary Lecture: (Carol Chillington Rutter University of Warwick, UK) 'Remind Me: How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?' 2.45-3.00 Coffee 3.00-4.30 Panels Session G: Shakespeare, Childhoods, Performance 2 Pascale Aebischer (University of Leicester, UK) Growing up with Shakespeare: the Memoirs of the Terry Family Claire Hind (University of Hull, Scarborough, UK) Narrative Treatments of Shakespeare in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Signing The Tempest Peter Lubrecht ( New York) 'Creating a New Social Reality for Shakespeare: A Directorial Method for Youth Theatre using Patrick Tucker's 'Acting Cues' Session H: Shakespearean Pedagogies Amanda Piesse (Trinity College Dublin, Eire) Grammatical facts and textual truth in Titus Andronicus Janet Bottoms (Homerton College, Cambridge, UK) How Shakespeare Became a Subject Ros King (Queen Mary's College, University of, London, UK) The Impact of the Literacy Hour and of Ten Years of the National Curriculum on Shakespeare Teaching in British Primary and Secondary Schools Sergio Amigo and Luis Gayol (London, UK) Stormy Shakespeare in the Pampas Session I: Shakespeare in Children's Literature Charles Cathcart: "Enghles & Plaiers-Boyes": Antonia Forest and Shakespeare's Apprentice. Chris Clark (University of Sunderland, UK) King of Shadows: Dream, Reality and Selfhood Pat Pinsent (University of Surrey Roehampton, London, UK) Not for an age but for all time: The Depiction of Shakespeare in a Selection of Children's Fiction 4.40-5.15 Concluding Session: Feedback by Panel Chairs and open discussion 5.15 End of Conference   Dr Robert Shaughnessy Reader Drama, Theatre and Performance Drama, University of Surrey Roehampton Roehampton Lane London SW15 5PH Tel: 0208 392 3414 Fax: 0208 392 3289 R.Shaughnessy@roehampton.ac.uk Susanne Greenhalgh Senior Lecturer Theatre and Performance University of Surrey Roehampton Roehampton Lane London SW15 5PH Tel: 0208 392 3334 Fax: 0208 392 3289 S.Greenhalgh@roehampton.ac.uk For further information on the Centre for Renaissance Studies, go to http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/renaissance/