Call for Papers Shakespeare Jahrbuch 157 (2021) “Shakespeare and Dance”
The 2021 volume of Shakespeare Jahrbuch will be a special issue on “Dance”. The editorial board invites essays from a variety of perspectives, including literary studies, cultural history, dance studies and the history of dance, performance studies, adaptation studies etc. Possible topics include:
• dances and dancing in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• dances on the Shakespearean stage
• dance in early modern masques
• dance as a trope in Shakespearean drama and poetry
• early modern dances (e.g. court dances, jigs etc.)
• the stage, performance, and the body
• dance and language and/or the rhetoric of dance
• dance and gender relations (in Shakespeare’s plays or adaptations of his plays)
• dance and social hierarchies (in Shakespeare’s plays or adaptations of his plays)
• Shakespeare as dance, i.e. adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays into dance and ballet
• dance and/as transcultural adaptation of Shakespeare
• choreographing Shakespeare / choreographers of Shakespeare adaptations
• …
For more information, please contact the general editor of Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Sabine Schülting (email: sabine.schuelting@fu-berlin.de). The deadline for submitting articles (of not more than 6000 words) is 31 May 2020.