Upcoming
19th November - Professor Michelle O'Callaghan (University of Reading)
"'Trim songes of love they wyll compile”: Reforming verse and godly recreations’
Abstract: Anthologies and the poems they gathered had rich social lives. This paper will focus on how John Hall read Songes and Sonettes alongside The Court of Venus in his Courte of Vertue, recrafting and reforming these ’Trim songes of love’ into lyrics suitable for godly recreation.
Past seminars
9th July
Mary Morrissey – Prosopopoeia and Performance
30th July
Elizabeth Sandis - Dramatists and clergymen at Oxford and Cambridge: the role of theatre in an early modern university education
13th August
Arnold Hunt – Preaching and Gesture
10th September
Rosamund Oates - Title TBC
15th October
William Green - Printed News and the Public Sphere
All seminars on Thursdays at 3-4 pm BST, please email [email protected] for the zoom link
19th November - Professor Michelle O'Callaghan (University of Reading)
"'Trim songes of love they wyll compile”: Reforming verse and godly recreations’
Abstract: Anthologies and the poems they gathered had rich social lives. This paper will focus on how John Hall read Songes and Sonettes alongside The Court of Venus in his Courte of Vertue, recrafting and reforming these ’Trim songes of love’ into lyrics suitable for godly recreation.
Past seminars
9th July
Mary Morrissey – Prosopopoeia and Performance
30th July
Elizabeth Sandis - Dramatists and clergymen at Oxford and Cambridge: the role of theatre in an early modern university education
13th August
Arnold Hunt – Preaching and Gesture
10th September
Rosamund Oates - Title TBC
15th October
William Green - Printed News and the Public Sphere
All seminars on Thursdays at 3-4 pm BST, please email [email protected] for the zoom link