You are cordially invited to attend the first conference to be held on Prof. Donald Foster's important discovery of a 578-line elegy published in 1612 by W.S., who, Prof. Foster has recently argued on historical and stylometrical grounds, was William Shakespeare. This attribution has gained general acceptance among Shakespeare scholars. Prof. Foster found the poem among UCLA's microfilm copies of the holdings of the Bodleian Library.

2:00-2:10 Prof. Robert Watson (UCLA), Welcome

2:10-2:30 Prof. David Holmes (University of the West of England),

"Authorship Studies Today."

2:30-3:00 Prof. Donald Foster (Vassar),

"W.illiam. S.hakespeare's 'Best-speaking witnesses': Trying the "Funeral Elegy" (with a reading of highlights of the poem).

3:00-3:20 Prof. Lars Engle (University of Tulsa),

"The Significance of 'A Funeral Elegy' for Our Understanding of Shakespeare's Life and Works."

3:20-3:30 Prof. Stephen Booth (University of California, Berkeley),

"Where Will We Go from Here?"

3:30-4:00 DISCUSSION

This conference has been organized by Prof. Bernard Frischer (UCLA) and is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, the UCLA Department of Classics, the UCLA Department of English, the UCLA Humanities Computing Facility, the UCLA Office of the Education Abroad Program, and the Dept. of English of Loyola Marymount University.

For further information please call ((310) 825-1867) or write (iddhbdf@mvs.oac.ucla.edu) Prof. Frischer.