Richard III: Histories--Transformations—Afterlives
Call for Papers
Date: 25 March 2015
Venue: De Montfort University, Leicester
Coinciding with the interment of King Richard III in
Leicester, De Montfort University's Centre for Textual Studies and Centre for
Adaptations are co-hosting a one-day conference called "Richard III:
Histories--Transformations--Afterlives".
20-minute papers are invited on all topics related to:
* The historical King Richard III
* The various dramatic/fictional King Richard IIIs
onstage and elsewhere
* The genre of the history play in its own time and
after
* Textual problems in the early editions of
Shakespeare's
history plays
* The relationship between history and tragedy in
Shakespeare's
time and after
* How Richard III changes in adaptations
* History plays and the shifting geographies of
England, Great
Britain, the United Kingdom and beyond
Please send proposals for papers comprising titles and
abstracts (100-300 words) to Prof Deborah Cartmell
by 15 January 2015.
The conference day programme and the registration fee
include a private guided tour of the newly opened King Richard III Visitor
Centre in Leicester city centre, which commemorates the discovery in 2012 of
Richard III's remains just 200 metres from the De Montfort University campus.
