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2022 — Contributions sought for essays and video commentaries for this website — rolling submission deadlines — please contact us for details

News and Events

July 8, 2022 — Midsummer Virtual Gathering on Zoom

August 15, 2022 — CFP due for Renaissance Society of America conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 9-11, 2023

October 13-16, 2022 — Dance Studies Association conference in Vancouver, Canada

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Featured Publications

Heads up: The special issue of Shakespeare Jahrbuch on Shakespeare and Dance is out and will be posted online shortly (vol. 157, 2021)

Get your copy of Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporary: A Corpus-based Approach by Project Associate Fabio Ciambella (2021)

Check out the special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies on Shakespeare, Dance, and Music, edited by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/caea/102/1 (2021)

Get your copy of Choreographing Shakespeare: Dance Adaptations of the Plays and Poems by Project Associate Elizabeth Klett (2020)

Explore the Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance (2019) edited by Project Associates Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw with essays by many of our project associates. This beautifully illustrated collection is a major contribution to our growing field.

Featured Essays

“Choreographing the Sonnets: Volcano Theatre Company’s L.O.V.E.” by James Hewison (2022)
“‘Speechless Complainer’: Lavinia in Dominic Walsh’s Titus Andronicus” by Ilana Gilovich-Wave (2021)
“Shakespeare and Physical Theatre“ by Linda McJannet (2019)

Featured Video Commentaries

“Volcano Theatre Company’s L.O.V.E.” — James Hewison (2022)
“Amapola‘s Queen of Mambo” — Ilana Gilovich-Wave (2021)

Featured Bibliographies

Comprehensive Bibliography

Thematic Bibliographies

Featured Reference List

Updated June 23, 2022.