Session Details

Monday, 29 December

580. Shakespeare’s Polite Fictions: Civility and Ideology in Macbeth, Hamlet, and the First Henriad

1:45–3:00 p.m., Union Square 2, Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Katherine M. Ibbett, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “Pains to Please in Macbeth,” Jeffrey Knapp, Univ. of California, Berkeley

2. “Hamlet’s Diplomacy,” Timothy Hampton, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3. “Can Artificial Persons Have Bad Manners? Countenancing the King’s Two Bodies in the First Henriad,” Oliver Maxwell Arnold, Princeton Univ.

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