The academic journal Meridian Critic invites contributions which celebrate the global cultural legacy of Shakespeare and Cervantes, in a year which marks the fourth centennial of their death. Submissions might address any related issues including, but certainly not limited to, the following:
- The myth of authorship: Cervantes’s fictitious authorship (Mata, 2008) and the Shakespeare authorship question (Bradbeer and Casson, 2015)
- Shakespeare’s and Cervantes’s role in the genealogy of modern ideas regarding love and friendship (Donskis, 2008) as well as in the humanist educational revolution;
- The two writers’ concerns overlapping with our understanding of Green politics (Egan, 2006);
- Imitating and imitated: Shakespeare, Cervantes, and the dynamics of literary influence;
- Servants’ resistance (Shin, 2010) in Shakespeare’s and Cervantes’ works as a literary solution to the narrative and ideological problem of ineffectual or tyrannical authority;
- Popular historical and political appropriations of Shakespeare and Cervantes as part of wider popular culture practices of re-imagining the Renaissance (Semenza, 2010);
- Shakespeare, Cervantes, and the problem of adaptation: the wide variety of guises under which their work circulates;
- Shakespeare’s wife (Greer, 2008), Cervantes’s daughter, and the ‘problematic’ woman (Gay, 1994) in their life and works;
- The roots of political theory and the discourse of politics in the writings of Shakespeare and Cervantes (Cascardi, 2012).
Deadline for article submission: 1 June, 2016. Please send the abstracts (ca 200 words), the full paper (up to 7000 words), as well as a brief biographical note (ca 400 words) to the following addresses: l_turcu@yahoo.com, corneliamacsiniuc@yahoo.com.
For details regarding style, please visit the following page: http://meridiancritic.usv.ro/index.php?page=instructions-to-authors.
