Witnessing Early Drama: Spectating, from The Cycle Plays to Shakespeare

The Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture

A free public lecture hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen.
5.30 pm Thursday 28th February, 2013

‘Witnessing Early Drama: Spectating, from The Cycle Plays to Shakespeare’
Professor Greg Walker
(Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh)

Professor Greg Walker has written widely on late-medieval drama and poetry, Renaissance literature, the history of the stage in the period before the building of the professional playhouses, and the cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation. He is currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded 'Staging and Representing the Scottish Renaissance Court' project, with Professor Thomas Betteridge (Oxford Brookes University)

Venue: Meeting Room 1 (Rm 706), Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen

All welcome.

For more information or to reserve a place please contact the organiser Andrew Gordon: a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk

The Society for Renaissance Studies is a charitable body promoting the study of the Renaissance period. For more information on its activities and for details of membership go to: http://www.rensoc.org.uk/

From Mêlée to Opera: The Metamorphosis of the Chilvaric Tournament

Organised by Sydney Anglo-Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London

Friday 27th April 2012, Registration from 10:00 am

Speakers include:

DAVID CROUCH (Professor of Medieval History, University of Hull). A Facsimile of the Battlefield? What was at issue in the Mêlée Tournament, 1160-1260?

TOBIAS CAPWELL (Curator of Arms and Armour, the Wallace Collection). Violence and Elegance. ChangingPriorities in the Joust, c.1200-1625

NOEL FALLOWS (Professor of Spanish, University of Georgia). From Sport to Spectacle in Renaissance Iberia: Jousting, the Game of Canes, and Bull-Running

IAIN FENLON (Professor of Music. Fellow, King's College, Cambridge). Martial Monteverdi

HELEN WATANABE O'KELLY (Professor of German. Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford). 'The Invention of Tradition?' August the Strong and his historicisingTournaments

SYDNEY ANGLO (Emeritus Professor: University of Wales). The History of the History of Tournaments

Registration

£25 (£12 .50 for concessions) including coffee/tea, and a sandwich lunch

To register please contact: warburg@sas,ac.uk