Pulpit, Playhouse, and Page: Theatrical and Non-theatrical Exchange in Early Modern England
University of Sheffield, Friday 12th November 2021, HRI Institute
11 am – 4.30 pm
As a follow up to our 2020 seminar series and online conference in May, we are delighted to be hosting a one-day series of workshops and discussions to take place both in-person and online. Further exploring the connections between theatrical and non-theatrical texts in Early Modern England, this day will be a chance to grapple with some of the specifics of cross-genre performance and to follow up the new avenues of research which have arisen from our many wonderful speakers over the last two years.
The day will include:
Workshop 1: Dialogues and didactics: Brinsley, Textor, and The Disobedient Child
Dr Cathy Shrank (Sheffield), Dana Key (UCL), Dr Emma Whipday (Newcastle), and Dr Freyja Cox Jensen (Exeter)
This session explores the connections between pedagogical dialogues and playtexts, through excerpts from schoolroom dialogues by John Brinsley and Ravisius Textor, and of scenes from Thomas Ingelend’s play, The Disobedient Child (1570). Ingelend bases his play on Textor’s dialogue Iuvenis, Pater, Uxor, translated into English as Pater, Filius, et Uxor, or, The Prodigal Son (1530), and refashioning it into an interlude, complete with songs, probably intended for performance in schools. The session begins with an introductory talk on the use of dialogues in the early modern schoolroom; it then builds on Practice-as-Research work staging The Disobedient Child in 2019, and on the Exeter Digital Humanities project, Early Modern Dialogues in Performance (2019 onwards), testing the ways in which the play and the dialogues function in performance and in relation to one another. Participation encouraged!
Workshop 2: Devils in the Pulpit, Prayers on the Stage
Dr Emma Rhatigan (Sheffield)
This workshop will explore the echoes of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1604) in two of Donne’s Jacobean court sermons in order to open up questions about the rhetorical traffic between pulpit, playhouse, and page. The session will provide an opportunity to think about the ways in which we need to qualify the antipathy between the pulpit and the theatre described by antitheatrical writers, the relationship between theatrical and non-theatrical performance, and the complex ways a text might move between performance and print.
Roundtable Discussion
To end the day, we will be inviting the workshop leaders, Dr Hannah Yip (Saskatchewan), and Dr Simon Smith (Birmingham) to discuss some of the themes and issues which have arisen during the course of all the Pulpit, Playhouse and Page events.
University of Sheffield, Friday 12th November 2021, HRI Institute
11 am – 4.30 pm
As a follow up to our 2020 seminar series and online conference in May, we are delighted to be hosting a one-day series of workshops and discussions to take place both in-person and online. Further exploring the connections between theatrical and non-theatrical texts in Early Modern England, this day will be a chance to grapple with some of the specifics of cross-genre performance and to follow up the new avenues of research which have arisen from our many wonderful speakers over the last two years.
The day will include:
Workshop 1: Dialogues and didactics: Brinsley, Textor, and The Disobedient Child
Dr Cathy Shrank (Sheffield), Dana Key (UCL), Dr Emma Whipday (Newcastle), and Dr Freyja Cox Jensen (Exeter)
This session explores the connections between pedagogical dialogues and playtexts, through excerpts from schoolroom dialogues by John Brinsley and Ravisius Textor, and of scenes from Thomas Ingelend’s play, The Disobedient Child (1570). Ingelend bases his play on Textor’s dialogue Iuvenis, Pater, Uxor, translated into English as Pater, Filius, et Uxor, or, The Prodigal Son (1530), and refashioning it into an interlude, complete with songs, probably intended for performance in schools. The session begins with an introductory talk on the use of dialogues in the early modern schoolroom; it then builds on Practice-as-Research work staging The Disobedient Child in 2019, and on the Exeter Digital Humanities project, Early Modern Dialogues in Performance (2019 onwards), testing the ways in which the play and the dialogues function in performance and in relation to one another. Participation encouraged!
Workshop 2: Devils in the Pulpit, Prayers on the Stage
Dr Emma Rhatigan (Sheffield)
This workshop will explore the echoes of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1604) in two of Donne’s Jacobean court sermons in order to open up questions about the rhetorical traffic between pulpit, playhouse, and page. The session will provide an opportunity to think about the ways in which we need to qualify the antipathy between the pulpit and the theatre described by antitheatrical writers, the relationship between theatrical and non-theatrical performance, and the complex ways a text might move between performance and print.
Roundtable Discussion
To end the day, we will be inviting the workshop leaders, Dr Hannah Yip (Saskatchewan), and Dr Simon Smith (Birmingham) to discuss some of the themes and issues which have arisen during the course of all the Pulpit, Playhouse and Page events.
Tickets
For those interested in attending in person or online, please register here. Tickets are £6 and include light refreshments. Online attendance will be free. *Thanks to a grant received from the Society for Renaissance Studies, we are able to offer a number of bursaries to help with travel costs for PGRs, ECRS and low-waged attendees. These bursaries will be distributed on a first come first served basis, so please do get in touch as soon as possible.* Note on COVID-19 We are aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and evolving. We will be monitoring both government guidance and advice from SAGE to ensure that it is appropriate to proceed with the workshop. To help keep everyone safe, we are asking all attendees to take a lateral flow test in the 24 hours before attending the workshop. The number of attendees at the workshop will be capped, and it will take place in a well-ventilated space with room to keep socially distanced. |