Shakespeare Quarterly is soliciting essays for the winter 1996 issue, a special issue on "Teaching Judith Shakespeare," to be guest-edited by Elizabeth H. Hageman and Sara Jayne Steen. Papers should address approaches to and/or implications of teaching sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women writers in conjunction with Shakespeare. Rather than simply providing useful readings of paired works, teachers might, for example, examine methods of teaching The Tragedy of Mariam with Othello, The Convent of Pleasure with Love's Labor's Lost, or Wroth's and Philip's poems with Shakespeare's sonnets; describe how students respond to Portia and Rosalind when Shakespeare's plays are juxtaposed with the writings of Aemilia Lanyer, Arbella Stuart, or Rachel Speght; suggest innovative reconfigurations of courses, treating issues such as language, spirituality, or the pastoral; or explore entirely new courses that emerge when these women's works join Shakespeare's as part of our cultural and literary discussions.

Articles (c. 20 pages, in SQ format) should be submitted to both Elizabeth H. Hageman, Department of English, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824-3574, and Sara Jayne Steen, Department of English, Montana State University-Bozeman, Bozeman, MT 59717-0230.

The deadline for submissions is 31 October 1995.
Inquiries are welcome and may be directed to either Professor Hageman or Professor Steen.

Elizabeth Hageman ehageman@christa.unh.edu

Sara Jayne Steen uenss@newton.math.montana.edu

[JM September 25 1995]