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Thursday, October 7<\/span><\/h1>\n

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Session 01: Forms of Heroism<\/span><\/h4>\n
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  • David George, Urbana University, “Gods with Clay Feet: Tamburlaine, Sejanus, Coriolanus”<\/span><\/li>\n
  • David Summers, Capital University, “Imitating the Sun: Selfhood and Narrative Fictions in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Marlowe’s Tamburlaine”<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Michael Young, La Roche College, “Accio Temptation: Sorcerers and Scarlet Women for Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s Time”<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Session 02: Witnessing Family and Community Dramas<\/span><\/h4>\n
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    • Edmund Taft, Marshall University, “Children as ‘Others’: Fathers on Trial in Measure for Measure”<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Anthony Funari, Lehigh Valley College, “‘Whether Spirit of Greatness or of Woman Reign Most in Her’: Redefining the Tragic Female Role in Duchess of Malfi”<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Russ Bodi, Owens College, “Shakespeare and Dekker, A Transubstantial View”<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.<\/span><\/h3>\n

      Session 03: Shakespeare and Twentieth Century Drama<\/span><\/h4>\n
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      • Angela E. Runciman, Binghamton University, “Hamlet’s Unsilent Lucidity; or, To Sleep! Perchance to Dream Like Pinnochio: Capek’s Hamlet Outside the Shakespeare Box”<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Gabriel Rieger, Case Western Reserve University, “Waiting for Cleopatra: Early Modern Drama and the Theatre of the Absurd”<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Session 04: The Work of the Audience<\/span><\/h4>\n
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        • Hillary Nunn, University of Akron, “Blinding Revelations: Sightlessness and Spectatorship in King Lear and Revenge for Honour”<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Krishna Wright, Marshall University, “Monstrous Others: The Moor and the Audience on Othello”<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Kara Northway, Xavier University, “Stephen Harrison’s Arches of Triumph: Putting Readers to Work in Pageant Drama”<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m.<\/span><\/h3>\n

          Special Event –\u00a0Sponsored by the Helen C. Weinberger Center<\/span><\/h4>\n

          Joseph McDonough’s Stone My Heart\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Stone my Heart is Joseph McDonough’s new theatrical adaptation of Othello. Mr. McDonough will discuss the challenges and problems of transforming Othello into a contemporary show. He will explore why anyone would attempt to contemporize Shakesepare. There will also be a reading of a scene, which will be the first time that any part of this play will be heard by an audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

          Joseph McDonough is the author of more than ten plays. Two have been nominated for the New Play Award of the American Theater Critics Association. His work has been produced in New York and California, and has had work performed by the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, and the Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati.<\/span><\/p>\n

          Mr. McDonough will be the 2004-2005 Weinberger Playwright in Residence.<\/span><\/p>\n

          7:15 p.m.<\/span><\/h3>\n

          Cocktail Party for the Holding Committee of the Ohio Shakespeare Conference.<\/span><\/h4>\n

          Friday, October 8<\/span><\/h1>\n

          8:30 a.m.-9:00a.m.<\/span><\/h3>\n

          Continental Breakfast at the Kingsgate<\/span><\/h4>\n

          9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.<\/span><\/h3>\n

          Welcome<\/span>
          \nPlenary Address<\/span><\/h4>\n