London Renaissance Seminar: The Violent Household

Friday 24 May 2-5.30pm /2-7.30pm, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck


1.30-2 Coffee

2.00 Iman Sheeha ‘“My master’s kindness pleads to me for life”: servants in the violent household’

2.25 Emma Whipday, ‘Deadly domesticity: violent homes on the early modern stage’

2.50 Lucy Clarke, ‘“I saw him come into your house an hour ago”: the (in)observable household and the state in Arden of Faversham and A Yorkshire Tragedy

Discussion

3.30 Tea

4.00 Rachel Holmes, ‘The violation of clandestine marriage’

4.25 Laura Seymour, ‘Non-conformist gestures and violent households’

4.50 Sarah Birt, ‘“I did think her to be a humane good woman”: serving apprenticeships in violent households in early modern London’

Discussion

5.30 Break

6.00 ‘Cry up Liberty!’

Eleanor Warr directs her play re-animating records of Milton’s conflicts with his daughters

Panel and Discussion

7.30 Close

Organisers: Rebecca Tomlin & Sue Wiseman



Contact: Sue Wiseman or Elizabeth Scott-Baumann