MLA Sessions Fall 2005

MLA 2005—Washington, D.C.

• Session 507 (MRDS)
Watching the Noonday Demon: Representing Depression and Despair on the Early Stage
Thursday, 29 December
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Monroe East, Washington Hilton

“Depression, Despair, and Victimization in Early English Drama,”
Victor Ivan Scherb, Univ. of Texas, Tyler

“ ‘Dolefull News’ or ‘Joyfull News’? Staging Despair in the Two Endings of Nathaniell Woodes’s Conflict of Conscience,”
Erin E. Kelly, Nazareth Coll.

“Staging Despair in Elizabethan Drama: Wapull, Marlowe, and Shakespeare,”
Alan Charles Dessen, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Other Sessions of Interest

• Session 64
Shakespeare’s Music
Tuesday, 27 December
7:00-8:15 p.m.
Carolina, Marriott

“The Tabor and the Church: Music, Festivity, and Religion in Twelfth Night,”
Phebe Clare Jensen, Utah State Univ.

“Scoring the Text: Stanley Cavell and Musical Aesthesis,”
Theodore Wesley Folkerth, McGill Univ.

• Session 121
Gender in Arab Shakespeare Appropriations
Wednesday, 28 December
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Hamilton, Washington Hilton

“Glaring Stare: Ophelia on the Arabic Stage,”
Yvette Khoury, King’s Coll. London

“Ophelia Was Pushed: Arab Women on the Edge,”
Margaret Litvin, Univ. of Chicago

“Shakespeare vs. Sheherazade: Arab Women Writers and Selective Literary Lineage,”
Zahr Said Stauffer, Columbia Law School

Respondent: Ferial Ghazoul, American Univ. in Cairo

• Session 346
Insult, Invective, and Satire
Wednesday, 28 December
7:15-8:30 p.m
Eisenhower, Marriott

“Representing the ‘Scottis Natioun’ to London: Populism and Propaganda in Satirical Broadsides,”
Tricia A. McElroy, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“The Marprelate Controversy and the Menippean Tradition,”
Joseph Navitsky, Boston Univ.

“The Plots of Late Elizabethan Satire,”
Matthew A. Greenfield, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York

• Session 353
Global Contexts for Teaching Othello
Thursday, 29 December
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Embassy, Marriott

“Othello and Race,”
Michael Neill, Univ. of Auckland

“Othello as an Adventure Play,”
Jean Elizabeth Howard, Columbia Univ.

“Looking for Othello,”
Joyce Green MacDonald, Univ. of Kentucky

• Session 481
Language and Shakespeare: Beyond Formalism
Thursday, 29 December
1:45-3:00 p.m.
Delaware Suite B, Marriott

“Shakespeare and the Linguistic Market,”
Douglas S. Bruster, Univ. of Texas, Austin

“ ‘That Every Word Doth Almost Tel My Name’: An Examination of Periphrastic Do in Shakespeare’s Sonnets,”
Gregory Foran, Univ. of Texas, Austin

“Haggard Desdemona: Metaphor and Marriage Discourse in Othello,”
Maria Fahey, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

• Session 540
Marlowe’s Literary and Biblical Influences
Thursday, 29 December
3:30-4:45 p.m
Roosevelt, Marriott

“How Marlowe Read Spenser: Tamburlaine and The Faerie Queene,”
Steven William May, Georgetown Coll.

“Violence, Love, and Strife: Lucan’s Cosmology and Marlowe’s Hero and Leander,”
Pamela Royston Macfie, Univ. of the South

“Apocalypse and Marlowe’s Tragic Vision,”
Patrick Ryan, Texas A&M Univ., Texarkana

• Session 546
3-D Shakespeare: An American Sign Language Multimedia Event
Thursday, 29 December
5:15-6:30 p.m.
Maryland Suite B, Marriott

Program sponsored by Gallaudet University. Presiding: Peter Novak, Univ. of San Francisco

Speakers: Catherine Rush, Philadelphia, PA; Adrian Blue, Philadelphia, PA

• Session 577
Shakespeare’s Audience Now
Thursday, 29 December
7:15-8:30 p.m.
Delaware Suite A, Marriott

“What’s the Matter with Shakespeare in Kansas? Regional Sainthood versus NEA Management,”
Donald K. Hedrick, Kansas State Univ.

“Holding the Mirror Up to Shakespeare: Bald Pate or Pierced Punk?”
Elizabeth A. Charlebois, Saint Mary’s Coll. of Maryland

“Film Reception and Its Discontents,”
Katherine A. Rowe, Bryn Mawr Coll.

Respondent: Barbara Hodgdon, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Session 628
Prison Shakespeare
Thursday, 29 December
9:00-10:15 p.m
Delaware Suite A, Marriott

“Shakespeare Behind Bars,”
Curt L. Tofteland, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival

“Adapting Shakespeare: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison,”
Jean Trounstine, Middlesex Community Coll., MA

“Performing ‘To Be’: The Hamlet Project of Prison Performing Arts,”
Margot Sempreora, Webster Univ.

“ ‘Shakespeare Saved My Life’: Voices from a Segregated Housing Unit,”
Laura Bates, Indiana State Univ.

• Session 660
Radical Theatricality and the Baroque Body
Friday, 30 December
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Map, Washington Hilton

“Theatricality, Legalism, and the King’s Two Bodies: The Execution of Charles I,”
Julie Stone Peters, Columbia Univ.

“Shaking, Quaking, Ranting: Spectacular Dissent,”
Katherine M. Romack, Stanford Univ.

“Kicking Around the Sun King: Molière’s Tartuffe and the Absolutist Body,”
Matthew Buckley, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

• Session 661
Shakespeare and the Reformation
Friday, 30 December
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Virginia Suite C, Marriott

A special session. Presiding: Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

Speakers: Elizabeth A. Charlebois, Saint Mary’s Coll. of Maryland; Brett Foster, Wheaton Coll., IL; Louise Geddes, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York; Elizabeth Williamson, Evergreen State Coll.; William Rogers, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Respondent: Glyn Parry, Victoria Univ.

• Session 710
Constructing Marlowe
Friday, 30 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Wilson A, Marriott

“Straightening Out Christopher Marlowe,”
Jeffrey A. Masten, Northwestern Univ.

“Marlowe and the World Picture,”
Douglas S. Bruster, Univ. of Texas, Austin

“Barabas and Charles I,”
John L. Parker, Harvard Univ.