{"id":42777,"date":"2016-10-17T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=42777"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:02:00","slug":"wright-state-hosting-shakespeare-conference-on-400th-anniversary-of-the-famous-playwrights-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/10\/17\/wright-state-hosting-shakespeare-conference-on-400th-anniversary-of-the-famous-playwrights-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State hosting Shakespeare conference on 400th anniversary of the famous playwright\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wright<\/a>\u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage.\u201d So writes William Shakespeare in his play \u201cAs You Like It.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare\u2019s death, Wright State University will become the stage for the latest scholarship on the famous English playwright as part of the 40th annual Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. Last year it was hosted by Bowling Green State University; the previous year by The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n

The \u201cEncountering Shakespeare\u201d conference Oct. 20-22 will include plenaries on literature and culture, teaching workshops and an array of artistic expressions engaging Shakespeare in musical and dramatic performances. It is designed to encourage educators to integrate performance teaching, digital media resources and reflective analysis of gender, race and class in Shakespeare’s plays.<\/p>\n

The presentations and workshops are free and open to the public. The conference runs throughout all three days in the Student Union from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A schedule of talks and workshops are posted at wright.edu\/shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to the intellectual energy and artistic pedagogy that comes from the speakers and from the Stratford actors\u2019 interactive material,\u201d said conference organizer Carol Mejia LaPerle, associate professor of early modern literature<\/a> at Wright State.<\/p>\n

Wright State won a highly competitive, $5,000 Ohio Humanities award<\/a> to host this year\u2019s conference and to offer a deeply discounted rate for K-12 schoolteachers to attend all of the events, including the much-anticipated Shakespeare Gala. The gala will take place from 5 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21, at the university\u2019s Creative Arts Center.<\/p>\n

\"Carol<\/a>

Carol Mejia LaPerle, associate professor of early modern literature, is organizing the \u201cEncountering Shakespeare\u201d conference at Wright State on Oct. 20-22. (Photo by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n

The plenary session speakers include Shakespeare scholars Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson, whose emphasis on American racial politics is expected to underscore Shakespeare\u2019s relevance in a diverse culture. Perry will outline the classical intertexts essential to understanding Shakespeare\u2019s plays and provide historical context to Shakespeare\u2019s humanist education.<\/p>\n

The teaching workshops are run by actors from the Canada\u2019s Stratford Theatre Festival, an internationally recognized repertory group from Stratford, Ontario, known for its production of Shakespearean plays. And the conference will be capped off with a reading by The American Shakespeare Collective from Michigan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is something for everybody,\u201d said Mejia LaPerle. \u201cShakespearean drama is some of the most compacted in terms of linguistic complexity, but it also provides an unusual enjoyment in figuring out something alien. If you can read Shakespeare, you can read anything. It taps into a skillset that is even more crucial today. That\u2019s an important 21st century skill \u2014 the ability to comprehend and make connections across complex, varied linguistic expressions.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the conference and gala, visit\u00a0wright.edu\/shakespeare<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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