Program: Presentation of Papers, The Ashland Authorship Conference

September 16–19, 2010

Ashland Springs Hotel

Daily Schedule

Thursday: September 16

10:00 - 10:15 Welcome and Introductions

10:15 – 11:15 Music by Mignarda:with Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart

11:15 – 12:00 Prof Tom Gage: The Bone in the Elephant's Heart

12:00 – 1:00 No-Host Lunch in local restaurants

1:00 – 2:00 Dr. Tom Hunter: The Invention of the Human in Shylock

2:00 – 2:45 Dr. Earl Showerman: Shakespeare’s Shylock and the Strange Case of Gaspar Ribeiro

2:45 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 3:45 Cheryl Eagan-Donovan: Shakespeare’s Ideal: Sexuality and Gender Identity in “The Merchant of Venice”

3:45 – 4:30 Dr. Marty Hyatt: Teaching Heavy Ignorance Aloft to Fly

4:30 – 5:00 Music by Mignarda

5:00 – 7:00 Conference Opening Reception - Ashland Springs Hotel Conservatory & Garden

8:00 Merchant of Venice performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Elizabethan Theatre

Friday: September 17

8:00 – 9:00 Shakespeare Fellowship Annual Meeting

9:00 – 9:45 Richard Whalen: ‘Goats and Monkeys!’ Othello’s Outburst Recalls a Fresco in Bassano, Italy

9:45 – 10:30 Dr. Frank Davis: The “Unlearned” versus the “Learned” Shakespeare

10:30 – 10:40 Break

10:40 – 11:10 Prof Jack Shuttleworth: “Hamlet” and Its Mysteries: An Oxfordian Editor’s View

Merchant of Venice

11:10 – 12:00 Merchant of Venice Panel: Tom Hunter, Tom Regnier & OSF Actors

12:00 – 1:00 Hosted Lunch – Ashland Springs Hotel Conservatory & Garden

1:00 – 2:00 Welcome by Bill Rauch: Artistic Director of OSF and Director of Hamlet and Merchant of Venice

2:00 – 2:45 Prof Roger Stritmatter: The “Little Eyases” and the “Innovation” of 1589

2:45 – 3:15 Katherine Chiljan: Twelve "Too Early" Allusions to Shakespeare's “Hamlet”

3:15 – 3:30 Break

3:30 – 4:30 Tom Regnier: “Hamlet’s” Law

4:30 – 4:40 Break

4:40 – 5:20 Prof Sam Saunders: The Odds on Hamlet’s Odds

5:20 – 6:00 Prof Helen Gordon: The Symbols in “Hamlet”: An Oxfordian Interpretation

8:00 Hamlet performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Bowmer Theatre

Saturday: September 18

8:00 – 9:00 Shakespeare-Oxford Society Annual Meeting

9:00 – 9:45 Hank Whittemore: The Birth and Growth of Prince Hal: Why did Oxford write “The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth?

9:45 – 10:30 Marie Merkel – "In the Fit of Miming": A brief history of Sir John  Falstaffe and the “whole school of tongues" in his belly

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:15 Lynne Kositsky: The Young Adult Novel “Minerva's Voyage” and its Relationship to “True Reportory” and “Minerva Britanna”

11:15 – 12:15 Hamlet panel: Prof Ren Draya, Jack Shuttleworth & OSF Actors

12:15 – 1:15 Hosted Lunch – Ashland Springs Hotel Conservatory & Garden

1:15 – 1:30 Music by Mignarda

1:30 – 2:30 Robin Goodrin Nordli: Bard Babes

2:30 – 2:45 Coffee, Tea & Cookie Break

2:45 – 3:00 Music by Mignarda

3:00 – 4:00 Keir Cutler: Is Shakespeare Dead?

4:00 – 5:00 “Declaration of Reasonable Doubt” Signing Ceremony with John Shahan, Paul Nicholson - Executive Director performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and other signatories

8:00 1Henry IV performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Elizabethan Theatre

Sunday: September 19

8:00 – 8:45 William Ray: Proofs of Oxfordian Authorship in the Shakespearean Apocrypha

8:45 – 9:30 Bonner Cutting: Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

9:30 – 9:45 Break

9:45 – 10:30 John Hamill – Bisexuality, Bastardy, Avisa and Antonio Perez Revisited

10:30 – 11:00 Michael Cecil: Revisiting the 1^st Baron Burghley’s “Precepts for the Well Ordering and Carriage of a Man’s Life”

11:00 – 12:00 Henry IV Panel: Felicia Londré & OSF Actors

12:00 – 12:15 Break

12:15 – 2:00 2010 Annual Joint Conference Awards Banquet

2:00 Conference Closing

The 2010 Ashland Authorship Conference has been supported by a grant from the Shakespeare Fellowship Foundation through the Caldwell Trust Company, and the appearance of Mignarda by a grant from the Mary Ausplund Tooze Trust.

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