26-28th May 2021, online on zoom
All times are BST
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All times are BST
Please sign up here if you wish to attend the conference:
https://forms.gle/3pEDe7uAFxgpMB5f9
See the abstracts for further details of the program
Wednesday 26th May
3.50 pm Welcome
4 – 5.15 pm Panel 1: Aurality
Chair: Catherine Evans
Drew Keane — The Usefulness of the Oral Qualities of the Prayer Book Catechism (1549-1604)
Aleksandra Throstrup – Auricular poisonings
Niall Allsop – Interregnum Marriage Rites: Ceremony and Allegiance in William Davenant and Margaret Cavendish
[15 min comfort break]
5.30 – 6.30 pm Research Mixer
Thursday 27th May
1:00 – 2:15 pm Panel 2: Composition and Commonplacing
Chair: Jane Rickard
Mary Morrissey – Donne’s missing pages
Beatrice Montedoro – Recovering Dramatic Extracting in Performance: Playgoers, Preachers and Commonplacing in Seventeenth-century England
Dana Key — “Gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized”: Commonplacing on the Sixteenth-Century Stage
[15 minute comfort break]
2.30 – 3.30 pm Panel 3: Performance, Text and Object
Chair: Tom Rutter
Anna Reynolds — ‘“Oh, sweete Doctor Almanacke”: Paper Props in Middleton’s Masques
Eva Lauenstein — Reading after death: The book on the Post—Reformation Funeral Monument
3.30 - 4 pm Coffee Break Mixer
4 - 5 pm Panel 4: Page and Stage I
Chair: Drew Keane
Stephen Watkins – Chasing Tempests
Jennifer Kraemer – Adapting Witchcraft: True Crime and Bigamy in Henry Goodcole’s Discouerie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch and Rowley, Dekker, and Ford’s The Witch of Edmonton
Friday 28th May
9.30 - 10.45 am Panel 5: Pulpit and Stage II
Chair: Mary Morrissey
Maria Salenius — “God made this World his Theatre”: John Donne Preaching on the Role of Princes.
David Fletcher — “A Stage-Sermon, Or A Pulpit-Play”: Theatricality and the liminality between the stage and in the pulpit, 1660-1714
Richard Meek — Empathy on the Stage and in the Pulpit
[15 min comfort break]
11 - 12 pm Panel 6: Performance and the Page
Chair: William Green
Tom Rutter — John Donne's Playgoing
Jane Rickard — ‘Plays or works?’ Ben Jonson's Workes (1616) as theatrical text
[15 min comfort break]
12.15 - 1.15 pm Panel 7: Page and Stage II
Chair: Catherine Evans
William Green — Fake News, 1624: English Corantos of the 1620s in the Drama of Thomas Middleton
Jean David Eynard — “A curious kind of perspective”: Gondibert and the visual politics of the early modern masque
1.15 – 2.15 Lunch break
2.15 - 3.15 Panel 8: Violent Performances
Chair: Emma Rhatigan
Andy Kesson – Early Modern Bear Bating
Cheryl Birdseye — Performative Confessions: Lessons in (in)sincerity
3.15 - 3.30 Concluding remarks and thanks; post-conference mixer
3.50 pm Welcome
4 – 5.15 pm Panel 1: Aurality
Chair: Catherine Evans
Drew Keane — The Usefulness of the Oral Qualities of the Prayer Book Catechism (1549-1604)
Aleksandra Throstrup – Auricular poisonings
Niall Allsop – Interregnum Marriage Rites: Ceremony and Allegiance in William Davenant and Margaret Cavendish
[15 min comfort break]
5.30 – 6.30 pm Research Mixer
Thursday 27th May
1:00 – 2:15 pm Panel 2: Composition and Commonplacing
Chair: Jane Rickard
Mary Morrissey – Donne’s missing pages
Beatrice Montedoro – Recovering Dramatic Extracting in Performance: Playgoers, Preachers and Commonplacing in Seventeenth-century England
Dana Key — “Gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized”: Commonplacing on the Sixteenth-Century Stage
[15 minute comfort break]
2.30 – 3.30 pm Panel 3: Performance, Text and Object
Chair: Tom Rutter
Anna Reynolds — ‘“Oh, sweete Doctor Almanacke”: Paper Props in Middleton’s Masques
Eva Lauenstein — Reading after death: The book on the Post—Reformation Funeral Monument
3.30 - 4 pm Coffee Break Mixer
4 - 5 pm Panel 4: Page and Stage I
Chair: Drew Keane
Stephen Watkins – Chasing Tempests
Jennifer Kraemer – Adapting Witchcraft: True Crime and Bigamy in Henry Goodcole’s Discouerie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch and Rowley, Dekker, and Ford’s The Witch of Edmonton
Friday 28th May
9.30 - 10.45 am Panel 5: Pulpit and Stage II
Chair: Mary Morrissey
Maria Salenius — “God made this World his Theatre”: John Donne Preaching on the Role of Princes.
David Fletcher — “A Stage-Sermon, Or A Pulpit-Play”: Theatricality and the liminality between the stage and in the pulpit, 1660-1714
Richard Meek — Empathy on the Stage and in the Pulpit
[15 min comfort break]
11 - 12 pm Panel 6: Performance and the Page
Chair: William Green
Tom Rutter — John Donne's Playgoing
Jane Rickard — ‘Plays or works?’ Ben Jonson's Workes (1616) as theatrical text
[15 min comfort break]
12.15 - 1.15 pm Panel 7: Page and Stage II
Chair: Catherine Evans
William Green — Fake News, 1624: English Corantos of the 1620s in the Drama of Thomas Middleton
Jean David Eynard — “A curious kind of perspective”: Gondibert and the visual politics of the early modern masque
1.15 – 2.15 Lunch break
2.15 - 3.15 Panel 8: Violent Performances
Chair: Emma Rhatigan
Andy Kesson – Early Modern Bear Bating
Cheryl Birdseye — Performative Confessions: Lessons in (in)sincerity
3.15 - 3.30 Concluding remarks and thanks; post-conference mixer