Richard III: Histories — Transformations — Afterlives – Call For Papers

Richard III: Histories — Transformations — Afterlives
A one-day conference at De Montfort University, Leicester
Trinity House, The Newarke, Leicester
25 March 2015

Coinciding with the interment of King Richard III in Leicester, De Montfort University’s Centre for Textual Studies and Centre for Adaptations are co-hosting a one-day conference called “Richard III: Histories–Transformations–Afterlives”.

20-minute papers are invited on all topics related to:

  • The historical King Richard III
  • Dramatic/fictional Richards onstage and elsewhere
  • The genre of the history play in its own time and after
  • Textual problems in the editions of Shakespeare’s history plays
  • The relationship between history and tragedy then and later
  • How Richard III changes in adaptations
  • History plays and the shifting geographies of England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom and beyond.

Please send proposals for papers comprising titles and abstracts (100-300 words) to Prof Deborah Cartmell (djc@dmu.ac.uk) and Prof Gabriel Egan (gegan@dmu.ac.uk) by 15 January 2015.

The conference day programme and the registration fee include a private guided tour of the newly opened King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester city centre, which commemorates the discovery in 2012 of Richard III’s remains, just 200 metres from the De Montfort University campus.