{"id":202,"date":"2012-10-01T17:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2012-10-19T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:41:33","slug":"from-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/issues\/volume-i-2007\/from-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the first volume of the new online journal <em>Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare\u00a0Conference<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Nearly 70 papers were read at the 2007 Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference at the\u00a0University of Akron, and the eight essays contained here represent the editorial board\u2019s\u00a0selection of the best scholarship from the 2007 conference, whose theme was \u201cAppropriating Shakespeare.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The conference considered this theme in its broadest outlines: Shakespeare\u2019s appropriations\u00a0and those who have appropriated Shakespeare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first four essays in this collection represent long\u2010standing, traditional approaches to\u00a0the question of appropriation.\u00a0\u00a0David George examines some of the major adaptations of <em>Coriolanus<\/em>\u00a0throughout the ages and what they tell us about the nature of adaptations and the play itself.\u00a0\u00a0Robert B.\u00a0Pierce re\u2010\u00a0examines how Shakespeare used <em>Holinshed<\/em> in <em>Richard II<\/em> and what this reveals about\u00a0Shakespeare\u2019s conception of history.\u00a0\u00a0Peggy Russo shows us how two great Shakespearean actresses\u00a0rebelled against standards of \u201cwomanhood\u201d during the nineteenth century. And Paul Weinhold\u00a0compares Bandello to <em>Much Ado<\/em> to demonstrate the importance of words and speaking in\u00a0Shakespeare\u2019s play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The second group of four essays\u00a0\u00a0is more wide\u2010ranging in their examination\u00a0\u00a0of appropriation.\u00a0\u00a0Amelia Bitely looks closely at how internet \u201cfanfiction\u201d uses Shakespeare, and Jason Demeter\u00a0explores the many connections between Gladys Vaughn\u2019s 1964 production of <em>Othello<\/em> and Amiri Baraka\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dutchman<\/em>, performed in the same year.\u00a0\u00a0Grant Williams investigates how Tony Kushner and\u00a0Shakespeare both employ the topos of disease, though in radically different ways, in <em>Angels in America<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Troilus<\/em>, respectively.\u00a0\u00a0Finally, Patrick Lawrence uses Bakhtin to examine comic devices in two tragedies: Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Lear<\/em> and Hardy\u2019s <em>The Mayor of Casterbridge<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The editor wishes to thank all those who made this volume possible, especially his editorial\u00a0board members, his technical editor, Sandee Lloyd, and his editorial assistant, Ryan Sarver.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first volume of the new online journal Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare\u00a0Conference.\u00a0\u00a0Nearly 70 papers were read at the 2007 Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference at the\u00a0University of Akron, and the eight essays contained here represent the editorial board\u2019s\u00a0selection of the best scholarship from the 2007 conference, whose theme was \u201cAppropriating Shakespeare.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1384,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ovsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}