Research Seminars and Symposia
Outside In / Inside Out: Shakespeare, the Globe and the Blackfriars
Organised by Shakespeare’s Globe and The American Shakespeare Centre
Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 October 2008
Shakespeare’s Globe and the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia are delighted to invite you to join the first of a two-part conference to celebrate the work of Professor Andrew Gurr.
This first section of the conference will also mark the 400th anniversary of the re-acquisition of the Blackfriars Playhouse and will take place at Shakespeare's Globe from 24 to 26 October 2008. To launch the weekend, Professor Gurr will deliver the 2008 Theo Crosby Fellowship Lecture at 19.00 on Thursday 23 October.
Scholars and theatre practitioners of international renown will present papers and explore issues under three areas of focus: Repertory and Space; Staging; and Reconstruction.
The conference programme will include contributions from: John Astington, Ralph Cohen, Franklin J. Hildy, David Lindley, Rosalyn Knutson, Lucy Munro, Patricia Parker and Bruce Smith.
This two-part conference will also initiate discussion and research into the Shakespeare Globe Trust's next theatre building project, the Indoor Jacobean Theatre and the discussions will continue at the Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, Virginia in autumn 2009.
Conference fees for 23/24/25/26 October 2008: £85.00 (£25.00 post-graduate concession). Booking through box office: + 44 (0)20 7401 9919
Blackfriars Conference Schedule
For further details, please contact Deborah Callan.
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Role and Rule: History and Power on Stage
Friday 6 to Sunday 8 February 2009
Shakespeare’s Globe
Organised by Globe Education and the Università di Padova,
with the support of the Fondazione Cariparo
This conference means to discuss the various modes of representation of monarchy in Tudor and Stuart England: more specifically, it focuses on how Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists staged England’s historical past and its political present by examining, through representations of past English monarchs, the role of Majesty and the relationship between subjects and power. This conference will highlight the celebration and praise lavished upon early modern monarchs in masques, triumphal processions, allegorical representations, and other theatrical forms such as public speeches.
The conference will be opened by Professor Stephen Orgel (Stanford University).
You are invited to submit a proposal for a twenty-minute paper.
Suggested topics:
1. Shakespeare’s history plays:
- revisiting the past: the English fifteenth century as a model for contemporary politics
- ostlers and courtiers: high and low in the Henry IV plays
- “Know you not I am Richard?” Shakespeare’s kings and the “mirror for princes” tradition
- the role of the populace in Shakespeare’s history plays
2. Political self-fashioning and the Tudor monarchy:
- Elizabeth and her writings
- Processions, progresses and pageants
- Elizabethan political theory
3. Staging queenly:
- Jacobean drama and its representation of female rule
- representing female monarchy in the Jacobean masque
- the shadow of Elizabeth: the memory of the Queen on the Jacobean stage
- the erasure of female power in Jacobean England
Other topics may include:
- Shakespearean responses to female monarchy or the presence and/or erasure of Elizabeth in non-history plays (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest)
- The relationship between staged witches, demons and amazons in Renaissance drama and Tudor/Stuart monarchy
Proposals should not exceed 500 words and should be accompanied by a short CV and a list of publications. Please send your proposals by Tuesday 15 July 2008 to the following email addresses:
Prof Alessandra Petrina, Università di Padova
Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, Lecturer, Globe Education