Shakespeare Quarterly

Original Call for Papers

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly, “Shakespeare and New Media,” edited by Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr College

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Shakespeare’s works have provided launch content for new media technologies since the seventeenth century, as Peter Donaldson has observed. At the turn of the 21st century, we are experiencing particularly rapid transformation of our basic tools for studying, teaching, learning, reading, performing, editing, archiving, and adapting Shakespeare.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Shakespeare Quarterly invites submissions of essays on the impact of media change, now, in all these arenas of Shakespeare studies. Submissions that make innovative use of new media publication modes, such as hyperlinks to the Folger Shakespeare Library’s digitized collections, are particularly welcome.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Some examples of possible approaches:

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• formalist analysis of Shakespeare’s works in new media formats (games, mash-ups, hypertext editions);
• readings of specific works (virtual performances of Shakespeare online; multimedia theater; “60-Second Shakespeare”);
• theoretical engagements with the costs and benefits of remediation and media convergence in the classroom, in performance, reading, archiving, and/or research;
• reviews of multimediated performances;
• accounts of the cultural values accruing to Shakespeare in new media, of Shakespeare’s changing (or timeless) “brand,” Bardolatry and media change.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Essays must be received by January 15, 2010. Please upload submissions to Editorial Manager, Shakespeare Quarterly’s online manuscript tracking system, at www.edmgr.com/sq.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For instructions on formatting your submission, please see our Contributor Guidelines.

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