1623-2023: Shakespeare’s First Folio across the Ages
International Conference – June 2 & 3 2023, Arras & St Omer, France – Université d’Artois & Bibliothèque d’Agglomération du Pays de St Omer – Congrès parrainé par la SFS
June 2
Université d’Artois, Arras, Maison de la recherche
9:00 Opening of the conference
Chair: Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Université, Paris)
9:20 Ben Higgins (Lincoln College, Oxford): “Alternative Collections: Shakespeare in Sammelbände around 1623”
10:00 Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham): “First Folio Blunders”
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
Chair: Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford)
11:00 Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Université, Paris): “Reading the Folio(s) Abroad: Shakespeare and the Dramatic Culture of English Catholic Colleges in the Spanish Low Countries in the Seventeenth Century”
11:40 Keynote address. Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada): “Passage to India: a Shakespeare Folio’s Long Strange Trip”
12:40-14:10 Lunch break
Chair: Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
14:10 Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa): “Shakespeare’s Corpse”
14:50 Laura Cleaver and Danielle Magnusson (School of Advanced Studies, London): “The First Folio and the Transatlantic Trade in Early Drama c. 1900-1929”
15:30-15:50 Coffee break
Chair: Sonia Massai (King’s College, London)
15:50 Noriko Sumimoto (Meisei University, Tokyo): “On Meisei First Folios”
16:30 Andrew Murphy (Trinity College, Dublin): “Shakespeare's Irish Folios”
17:15 End of the first day
June 3
Bibliothèque d’agglomération du pays de St Omer, chapelle des jésuites
Chair: Andrew Murphy (Trinity College, Dublin)
9:00 Emma Depledge (Université de Neuchâtel): “The Print Afterlives of Plays First Published in Shakespeare’s First Folio”
9:40 Sonia Massai (King’s College, London): “ ‘If we do not succeed in solid folio, let us excel in light duodecimo’ (William Hazlitt, 1823). The (Editorial) Value of Shakespeare’s First Folio: A Short Historical Survey”
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
Chair: Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada)
10:40 Matthias Bauer & Angelika Zirker (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen): “The First Folio as a Sacred Text”
11:20 Keynote address. Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford): “How the First Folio Became the First Folio”
12:30-15:00 Lunch break
15:00 General lecture, in French. Guillaume Winter (Université d’Artois) : « Le premier folio de Shakespeare : petite histoire d’un grand livre ».
16:00 Round table discussion, in French. « Autour du Folio de St Omer » with Gisèle Venet (Professor Emerita at the Sorbonne Nouvelle), Line Cottegnies (Professor at the Sorbonne) and Rémy Cordonnier (Head of Rare Books at the BAPSO), moderated by Guillaume Winter.
17:15 End of the conference