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Utah Shakespeare Festival

Southern Utah University

Cedar City, Utah

The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring Medieval through Early Modern Studies, through the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays. 

The symposium is hosted by Southern Utah University, home of the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival. Scholars attending the conference will have the unique opportunity of immersing themselves in research, text, and performance in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the western U.S.

In support of SUU's mission to support undergraduate research, the Woodeno Symposium regularly includes at least one undergraduate panel as part of the program.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival is noted for its beautiful outdoor theater modeled after Shakespeare's Globe Theater, the original "wooden O." Their 2011 summer Shakespeare season will include, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, and Romeo and Juliet.  In addition, the festival will also produce The Music Man, The Glass Menagerie, and Noises Off!.

Finally, in celebration of their 50th anniversary the Utah Shakespear Festival and SUU's Sherratt Library will be hosting an exhibit featuring a First Folio (Folger Library) and other significant Shakespeare texts. In recognition of this singular event the Symposium is also encouraging authors to submit papers on subjects related to early Shakespeare texts.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Eric Rasmussen Professor of English University of Nevada Dr. Rasmussen is a scholar of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature and is co-editor of the 2006 Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works of William Shakespeare. He recently completed a world-wide survey of extant copies of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623). Select Publications The Royal Shakespeare Company's complete works of William Shakespeare. (Co-edited with Jonathan Bate). 2006. UK:Macmillan/Palgrave and US: Random House William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's The two noble kinsmen. (Co-edited with Richard Proudfoot). 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The norton anthology of English renaissance drama. (Co-edited with David Bevington, Lars Engle and Katharine Maus). 2002. The Malone Society. New York: W.W. Norton and Sons.