CfP: Shakespeare in the North

2 June 2016, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Keynote speakers: Professor Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam), Professor Richard Wilson (Kingston), Professor Peter Davidson (Aberdeen) The four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 will, more than ever, focus attention on this question: where and to whom does Shakespeare belong?  Much critical work has been done on Shakespeare’s …

Reform and Renewal: New Directions in Early Drama Research – A Round Table Discussion at Leeds IMC 2015

Sponsored by Medieval English Theatre and Early English Drama & Performance Network Tuesday 7th July 2015 7-8pm The last forty years have seen tremendous change and innovation in medieval drama research. During this time the field has gradually moved from the margins to hold a more central position in medieval studies, has shifted its focus …

London Renaissance Seminar: The Performance and Experience of Domestic Service

Saturday 18th July 2015, 2pm-6.30pm, Room 538, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX In early modern England, domestic conduct literature, legal treatises, and state-sanctioned homilies propagated the ideal of the home as a self-contained system of government; the loyalty of domestic servants was therefore of political significance. Performances of domestic service onstage explored early modern anxieties …