July 22-25, 2019 | Ashland, Oregon
Join the SOF for our summer seminar in Ashland. We will focus on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s productions of As You Like It, All’s Well that Ends Well, and Macbeth, as well as recent Oxfordian publications. The seminar will take place in the beautiful Meese Room at Hannon Library on the campus of Southern Oregon University.
REGISTER
Seminar Registration
Full seminar and single day registrations are available.
(Tickets to OSF theatre productions must be purchased separately, see below.)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) Theatre Tickets
Registrants will be responsible for ordering their own theatre tickets for AYLI (7/23), AW (7/24) and Macbeth (7/25). Tickets may be ordered by calling the OSF Box Office at 800-219-8161 or online at the OSF website. As of May 1, 2019, there are a number of tickets available for As You Like It on 7/23, but All’s Well and Macbeth on the 24th and 25th are sold out. Seminar registrants who want tickets to sold-out shows can usually get them by checking frequently on the OSF website ticket purchase page – https://www.osfashland.org/en/ticketing/2019/july.aspx. A wait list for sold-out shows is also available to OSF Donor Members. To become a Donor member, go to https://www.osfashland.org/en/support/individuals/supporting-membership.aspx
PROGRAM
The seminar will be preceded by a free-to-the-public presentation by SOF seminar faculty on Monday, July 22, in Carpenter Hall at the corner of S. Pioneer and Hargadine Streets. The Carpenter Hall forum will be followed by an opening reception for seminar participants at the home of Carole Sue Lipman, President of the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable.
Daily sessions will convene at Hannon Library from 9:00 – 5:00 from July 23rd through the 25th with lunches included at Omar’s Restaurant, a short walk from Hannon Library. See http://omarsrestaurant.com/ for luncheon menus. A special exhibit of 16th and 17th century folio editions from the Margery Bailey Collection will be on display during the seminar.
Coppin State University Professor Roger Stritmatter will serve as the lead seminar instructor. Other presenters will include Bonner Cutting, author of Necessary Mischief, Steven Sabel, Producing Artistic Director of the Archway Theatre Company, Law Professor Bryan Wildenthal, Shelly Maycock of Virginia Tech University, and Dr. Earl Showerman, who has been teaching on the Shakespeare authorship question for a decade at the Osher Lifelong Learning program at Southern Oregon University. See below for instructor bios.
FEES
Tuition for the 2019 seminar is $150 for the three day program. Individual day registrations for $50/day are also available.
LODGING
For seminar attendees who will require accommodations in Ashland, a variety of hotels and bed and breakfast establishments may be booked, but availability in July may be limited. The inn nearest to Hannon Library is the Flagship Inn where rooms may be reserved for around $100/night — use this link to book your room at the special rate. Assistance in transfers to and from Hannon Library and OSF will be provided by the seminar organizers.
MORE INFORMATION
For further information on the seminar, theatre tickets, accommodations, or other questions, contact Earl Showerman at earlees@charter.net.
SEMINAR FACULTY
Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D., is a Professor of Humanities and Literature at Coppin State University. In 2009 he established Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies, serving as the general editor from 2009-2016. The 2015 third edition of the Index to Oxfordian Publications identifies 105 articles by him published between 1990 and 2014, many in orthodox academic journals including The Shakespeare Yearbook, Review of English Studies, Notes and Queries, and the Psychoanalytic Review. He is the author, with Lynne Kositsky, of On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (McFarland 2013) and, with Alexander Waugh, A New Shakespeare Allusion Book: Literary allusions to Shakespeare, 1584-1786 from Historical Principles (2019).
Bryan H. Wildenthal is Professor of Law Emeritus, Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. He received his A.B. (with honors) and J.D. (with distinction) from Stanford University, where he was an editor on the Stanford Law Review. He has been a law professor since 1994. Bryan is the author of a law textbook, Native American Sovereignty on Trial (2003), and numerous articles in leading law reviews. He was elected in 2016 to the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Board of Trustees, and now serves as vice president of the SOF. His first book on the subject, Early Shakespeare Authorship Doubts, is forthcoming soon.
Steven Sabel is the producing artistic director of Archway Theatre Company, headquartered in Burbank, Ca. He was the founder of the Redlands Shakespeare Festival, and served as producing artistic director of that organization for nine successful seasons, before moving to the Los Angeles area. He has produced more than 57 full-scale Shakespearean productions in both classical and conceptualized styles, including 21 different titles in the Shakespearean canon.
Bonner Cutting holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tulane University and a Master of Music in piano performance from McNeese State University. Her recent book, Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question, is a collection of essays on a wide range of subjects that shed light on the authorship debate. Her work on the Last Will and Testament of Stratford’s Shakspere is published, along with her transcript of this will, in the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition’s book Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Exposing an Industry in Denial.
Shelly Maycock has been teaching Composition and Professional Writing as an Instructor at Virginia Tech for the past decade. She has two MAs in English literature and creative writing from Virginia Tech and Hollins University. She developed authorship skepticism as an English major and grad student fascinated with Elizabethans but disenchanted with the traditional view of Shakespeare, and developed a strong interest in the Oxfordian position after teaching Hamlet.
Earl Showerman, M.D. graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Medical School. Over the past 15 years he has presented a series of papers and published on the topics of Shakespeare’s debt to Greek drama and his remarkable medical acumen. He contributed the chapter on Shakespeare’s medical knowledge in Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? – Exposing an Industry in Denial as well as several topics in Know-It All-Shakespeare. He serves as a trustee of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, and an Associate of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust of London.
