Call for papers deadline — 30 November 2014

A conference to mark the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Samuel Johnson’s The Plays of William Shakespeare Plenary speakers will be Jenny Davidson, Joseph Roach, and Henry Woudhuysen. Other speakers will include Michael Caines, Robert DeMaria Jr, Jack Lynch, Fiona Richie, Adam Rounce, Peter Sabor, Philip Smallwood, Marcus Walsh, and Howard Weinbrot. Panels currently planned include Johnson and eighteenth-century Shakespeare Johnson and Shakespeare’s language Johnson and eighteenth-century editing Johnson and Shakespeare criticism Johnson and theatricality Shakespeare’s women and Johnson Johnson’s Shakespeare in print Afterlives: the legacy of Johnson’s edition Johnson and Shakespeare’s endings Johnson, Shakespeare, and the sense of history. Further information is to be found here http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/content/johnson-and-shakespeare