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Conference 2005!

ome One, Come All! The 4th Annual Conference of the Shakespeare Fellowship, co-sponsored by the Shakespeare Oxford Society, will be held September 29-October 2, 2005, in Ashland, Oregon, home to much of America's last great wilderness, as well as the world-renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

The program includes tickets to 12th Night and Richard III as well as a back stage tour and presentations by OSF company members.

To Register by mail, please print and mail our Registration form. To Register online, please visit our online Shopping Cart.

Register now to reserve your space!

shland is located in southern Oregon, midway between Portland and San Fransisco Bay, only a 15 minute drive from the Medford - Rogue Valley airport. Crater Lake and the spectacular Oregon coast are only 2-3 hours drive from Ashland. Please join us for a weekend of scholarship, theatre, and wilderness charm in Ashland.

Local Oxfordians, including OSF headliner James Newcomb, who stars in the title role in the 2005 production of Richard III, will welcome conference attendees to this picturesque Oregon townlet. The conference is co-sponsored by the Shakespeare Oxford Society.

The roster of Conference speakers, listed below, is already full.

If you wish to be considered as a backup speaker, Please email us with an abstract or paper proposal topic.

 

Richard III Panel James Newcomb, Robin Goodrin-Nordli, Ren Draya
12 th Night Panel Ken Albers, Linda K. Morris, Ren Draya, Michael L. Hays
Allusions to Edmund Campion in 12 th Night Dick Desper
Approach to Richard III James Newcomb
True Tragedy of Richard III Ramon Jimenez
King John and the Bastard Prince Dan Wright
Shakespeare and the Voyagers Lynne Kositsky-Roger Stritmatter
The “Spanish Maze” and the Date of the Tempest Lynne Kositsky-Roger Stritmatter
Richard III and the Law of Treason Thomas Regnier

Bermoothes: An Intriguing Enigma

Paul Altrocchi

Orestes-Horestes-Hamlet : Myth to Masterpiece

Earl Showerman
Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance Michael L. Hays
Romeo and Juliet Blair Oliver
Love's Labour's Lost vs. 12 th Night Stephanie Hughes
Discovering The Monument Hank Whittemore

Unmuzzle Your Wisdom: Shakespeare, Not Brooke, Wrote Tragicall Historye of Romeus & Juliet

Paul Altrocchi
Shakespeare, Oxford and Music Elisabeth Sears
Emaricdulfe Derran Charlton
The ‘Dark Lady' John Hamill
Cardenio and Theobold's Double Falsehood Ernest Rehder
Shakespeare's Bible: A 15 Year Retrospective

Roger Stritmatter
Oxfordian Jeopardy Alex McNeil
Shylock:  Jew and No Jew Tom Hunter
Two New Oxford Documents Katherine Chiljan

Oxford 's Year's at Cecil House: The Making of a Divided Mind

Peter Austin-Zacharias
Preference Model for a Second Best Bed Marilynn Loveless
Stratford Monument and Christopher Marlowe Mary Berkowitz
Psychology of Authorship and Biography Kevin Simpson
Strategy: Raising the Shakespeare Authorship Question Matthew Cossolotto
Charles Dickens and Shakespeare Michael Dunn
Film: Scott Rowan Is William Shakespeare Scott Rowan

 

Accomodations Update, August 5, 2005


The Ashland Springs Hotel is now fully booked during the conference.  At this there are, however, still a limited number of rooms available in the conference block at the Plaza Inn www.plazainnashland.com .

The accommodations page at www.osfashland.org   lists every good housing option around Ashland.  These are the hotels, inns, and B&B's in similar price ranges, all within 2-4 blocks of the Ashland Springs, Plaza Inn, and the festival theatres.  The Columbia Hotel (541-482-3726)  The Columbia is a budget hotel right next door to the Ashland Springs.  These rooms have a shared bathroom.  Other larger motel/inns within walking distance: The Bard's Inn Motel (541-462-3259) - 2  blocks to theatres, 3 to the Ashland Springs Hotel Stratford Inn - (541-488-2151) - 3 blocks to hotel, 4 to theatres    Finer Inns and B & B's within comparable walking distances: Winchester Inn Peerless Hotel Chanticleer Inn McCall House Ashland Creek Inn The Woods House Cowslip's Bell Fadden's Inn Descriptions of these are all available at www.osfashland.org under 'Your Visit' and linking to 'Accomodations'.  Winchester Inn and McCall House are the closest to the hotel and theatres.