Welcome to the home page of the Seventeenth Waterloo Conference on Elizabethan Theatre. The Conference will address the topic of Religion and Theatre, and will be held at the University of Waterloo Conference Centre from June 16-18, 2005. It will feature thirteen short-paper sessions and six plenary speakers:

Anthony Dawson (University of British Columbia)
Alexandra Johnston (University of Toronto)
Jeffrey Knapp (University of California, Berkeley)
Debora Shuger (University of California, Los Angeles)
Richard Strier (University of Chicago)
Paul Whitfield White (Purdue University)

Conference participants may also purchase group-rate tickets through the Conference for performances of The Tempest and As You Like It at the nearby Stratford Festival of Canada.

The links on this page will provide further information about the Conference. Follow the Program link for details about the plenary lectures and the thirty-nine short papers. To register, contact the organizers or mail the downloadable registration form to Kenneth Graham, Elizabethan Theatre Conference, Department of English, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1. To reserve accommodation at the University of Waterloo Conference Centre (Ron Eydt Village), follow the Accommodation link.

The Conference organizers gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of the Dean of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Waterloo, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), and George Hibbard. They also thank Maureen Fraser, Norma Snyder, Carol Kendrick, Ted McGee, Jessica Fuchs, and Kathy Acheson for practical assistance, moral support, and sage advice.