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Fourth Dutch Shakespeare Authorship Conference
in collaboration with Ons Middelbaar Onderwijs, OMO

‘Shakespeare in Italy’
June 8-9th 2007
Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht, Netherlands

This year's conference, organized by the Dutch members of the De Vere Society will address the Italian sources of Shakespeare’s plays and in particular the influence of Commedia dell’ Arte upon his works.

Saturday June 9th, venue: all performances will take place in the Theater Instituut Nederland (TIN), Herengracht 168, Amsterdam. Coffee at 10.00, first paper at 10.30 and finishing at 17.00. The day includes a guided tour through the Theatre Museum, where rare performances of Shakespeare plays will be on display and with the use of the mediatheque facility.

Juan Tages, stage director and Grainne Delaney, actress will stage a play about the authorship question. Tajes has worked in collaboration with the Italian Institute, is a theatre expert and accomplished maskmaker. We aim to have an exhibition of his collection of masks during the conference.

Frank Peereboom and Eveline Juten, dancer/theatreman and theatrewoman respectively will peform a commedia dell’arte play.

Alexandra d’Espinosa - mezzo soprano, will perform renaissance songs.

Floris de Rycker – accomplished lutist will also perform.

Negotiations with other artists are ongoing

Speakers and their papers
Mark Anderson – (title to be announced)
Dr. Charles Berney – Listening to “The Winter's Tale”
Kevin Gilvary – The Tempest as Italian Comedy
W. Ron Hess – Searching under the Lamp-posts for Dating the Sonnets
Jan van der Hurk and Catherine Putters, teachers of English, Tilburg, Odulphus Lyceum, and their students: the Authorship Project
Eddi Jolly - Hamlet, Henry and Henslowe – A Glance at Dates, Debates and Doubts
Dr. Noemi Magri - “Shakespeare’s Knowledge of the Rulers in the Balkan Peninsula. Orsino, Duke of Illyria: Historical Truth in Twelfth Night”.
Prof. Daniel Wright - Stratfordian Hypocrisy

Speaker profiles
Mark Anderson, writer, author of ‘Shakespeare By Another Name’, with his own website: www.ShakespeareByAnotherName.com. Mark has lectured to the Dutch Psychoanalytic Association on one year in Shakespeare’s life (1575/76) that inspired eightten of the plays.

Dr. Charles Berney, Watertown, Mass., Shakespeare Fellowship, a physicist recently retired from the research staff at MIT. Dr. Berney founded the Shakespeare Fellowship. Much of the action in Winter’s Tale takes place in Sicily, an island which Edward de Vere visited during his Grand Tour in 1575/76.

Kevin Gilvary, hon. Treasurer De Vere Society, member of the DVS for 10 years, former editor of the newsletter. Mr. Gilvary has a degree in the Classics and is particularly interested in tracing the influcence of Greek and Roman Literature through Italian Literature on Shakespeare.

Jan van der Hurk and Catherine Putters, both are teachers of the English language and literature, at St. Odulphus Lyceum, Tilburg and members of OMO , Our Secondary Education

Dr. Noemi Magri, (Mantua) is an independent researcher into the – renaissance and other - sources in Italy for Shakespeare’s plays.

Eddi Jolly, (Southampton) member of the De Vere Society, author of many papers on the authorsship question. She is a teacher of English Literature and Language at a Sixth form college. Her driving force is her fascination with the gulf between the 'facts' about William Shakespeare and the achievement of the plays.

Prof. Daniel Wright, (Portland, Or.) has a Ph.D. in Shakespearean Studies and is Director of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre at Concordia University? He founded, and has directed for 11 years, the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University and he is the first professor have inaugurated the teaching of a master’s degree program in Authorship Studies (the first of its kind anywhere in the world) for students seeking an M.A. in this field. He is the author of The Anglican Shakespeare: Elizabethan Orthodoxy in the Great Histories (1993).

W. Ron Hess, USA, writer, author of ‘The Dark Side of Shakespeare’, famous Oxfordian website editor.We cordially invite Startfordians or Orthodox persons tot participate and participate in the authorship debate.

Dance Performance
Sarabande, founded by Neela Mueler (formerly Scapino and Historical Dance Ensemble Volta, Rotterdam) in 1999, in order to stimulate the professional performance of the Historical Dance and to make this form of dance easier accessible to a broader, new and also younger public. Neela has specialized in Historical Dance since 1982 and was a dancer in a number of langer and smaller historical dance productions. Under her direction Eveline Juten and Frank Peereboom, will perform Renaissance dances.

Eveline Juten is a lute player educated at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and a singer from the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, who regularly performs with various ensembles and is a member of the Hemony Ensemble' dedicated to 17th century music from the Lowlands. Her special interests concern the casting of medieval and renaissance music in a theatrical form, 'A Courtier from Mantua' with early 16th ct. music and declamations from Baldasser Castiglione's 'The Courtier' (Il Libro del Cortegiano).

Frank Peereboom started his specialization in Historical Dance over twenty ears ago, is a dancers who is very much in demand in Western Europe for historical opera, dance- and theatrical productions, not only as a dancer buw also as a choregrapher en teacher. He is a member of music theatre and dance companies in London, Vienna and Berlin. He is also the author of a series of small shows, varying form children's performances to parodies of plays styled historically.

Conference organizers
Prof. Sandra Schruijer, schruijer@yahoo.com
Jan Scheffer, j.h.scheffer@hetnet.nl
Anne-Louise Plugge, alvolkenborn@tiscali.nl

Registration for the conference through: www.shakespeare-whowashe.nl

Conference Fee: €15 for Friday, €50 for Friday and Saturday or for Saturday only

Students: €10 for Friday, €25 for Friday and Saturday or for Saturday only

NH hotel Utrecht Centre
You may contact the hotel by telephone or e-mail yourself and claim the reduced rate for the Shakespeare Authorship Conference. Telephone: * 31 30 231 31 69 (fax: 231 01 48) , e-mail: nhcentreutrecht@nh-hotels.com. Should you find any difficulty please contact Mieke Breij or any of the organizers by e-mail.