Colloquium on Richard II and Casting Diversity, at the Rose Theatre

Kingston Shakespeare Seminar with Global Shakespeare and Anərkē Shakespeare
March 24/25th 2018


Saturday March 24th  09.30 – 18.00

‘Political Theology and Shakespeare’s Richard II’

Richard Ashby (Royal Holloway University London): ‘Pierced to the Soul: The Sovereign Gaze in Richard II’

Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg University): ‘The Breath of Kings: Richard II in the Marlowe Aftermath’

Antonio Cerella (Kingston University): ‘The Sovereign Sacrifice: A Genealogy of Political Representation’

Guillaume Foulquie (University of Worcester): ‘Conceptions and Ideologies of Blood in Richard II’

Ronan Hatfull (Shakespeare Institute): ‘Hollow Crowns and Thrones: The Postmodern Celebrity Richard’

Eric Heinze (Queen Mary University London): ‘The Performance of Law’s Legitimacy in Richard II’

Edward Paleit (City University London): ‘Marlowe Never Dies: Deposing Sovereignty in Richard II’

Elena Pellone (Shakespeare Institute) and David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University London):

‘Breath of Kings: Political and Theatrical Power in Richard II’

Ildiko Solti (Kingston University): ‘Power Play: The Audience as Pawn in Richard II’

David Souden (British Museum) and Richard Foster (Independent Scholar): ‘Pamela Tudor-Craig and Richard II: A Memoir’



Sunday March 25th 10.30–1.00

‘‘‘Let me Play the Lion Too’’: Casting Diversity in Shakespeare’

Actors from Anərkē Shakespeare: ‘Gender and race-blind casting, and working without a director’

Anthony Howard: ‘The British Black and Asian Shakespeare Project’

Martin Wiggins: ‘Shakespeare’s Original Practice Without a Director’


‘Richard II’ performed by Anərkē Shakespeare in the Rose Studio on March 24 @ 2pm & 7pm; March 25 @ 2pm


Register for all or part of this free seminar and performance
at the Rose Theatre Kingston
24-26 High Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, KT1 1HL
Box Office (10.00 – 18.00) 020 8174 0090 / rosetheatrekingston.org

International Christopher Marlowe Conference: Registration now open

7th - 8th September 2015, University of Exeter.

'The International Christopher Marlowe' is a two day academic conference devoted to exploring the international contexts, both historical and contemporary, informing the work of the English poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe (c.1564).

Provisional Schedule

Monday 7th September

9.15-10.00 Registration, coffee

10.00-10.15 Edward Paleit (Exeter), Welcome

10.15-12.00 Session 1: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and the East
Simon May (Oxford), ‘Marlowe’s Tamburlaine: Ambiguity and the Near East’
Chloe Houston (Reading), ‘Valiant Tamburlaine, the man of fame’: gender, Persia and romance in Tamburlaine”
Professor Matthew Dimmock (Sussex), ‘Tamburlaine’s Material Worlds’

12.00-12.45 Lunch

12.45-14.00 Session 2: Provocation and Subversion in Marlowe
Professor Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Marlowe’s Provocative Play Names’
Vincenzo Pasquarella, ‘Italian Masks/Italianate Devils: The Metamorphic Deceptions in Marlowe’s Edward II’

14.00-14.15 Coffee Break

14.15-15.45 Session 3: Marlowe’s International Perspectives
Chloe Preedy (Exeter), ‘Europe by Air: International Flight in Marlowe’s Drama’
Barbara Wooding, ‘‘With twice twelve Phrygian ships I ploughed the deep’: Marlowe and journeys of the imagination.’

15.45-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.30 Session 4: Marlowe and European politics
Edward Paleit (Exeter), ‘Whose resistance theory is it anyway? The virtual excommunication of Marlowe’s Edward II’
Georgina Lucas (Birmingham/Shakespeare Institute), ‘ “An action bloody and tyrannical”: Tyranny and Resistance in Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris’

17.45-19.00 Keynote: Professor Alan Stewart (Columbia)

(Followed by Q&A)

20.00 Conference Dinner: Côte Brasserie, Cathedral Green, Exeter

Tuesday 8th September

9.00-10.45 Session 4: Religious Conflict in Marlowe
Professor Catherine Gemelli Martin (Memphis), ‘Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris and the Wars of Religion’
Killian Schindler (Fribourg), ‘Predestination and Religious Toleration: New International Contexts for Doctor Faustus’
Meadhbh O’Halloran (Cork), ‘Marlowe’s Mediterranean’

10.45-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.45 Session 5: Giordano Bruno, Philosophy and Religion
Professor Rosanna Camerlingo (Perugia), ‘Brunian Marlowe’
Luca Bocchetti (Verona), ‘Benvolio, Christ and Actaeon: the Italian Neoplatonic Legacy of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Giordano Bruno’s Spaccio de la bestia trionfante.’
Cristiano Ragni (Perugia) ‘ “What irreligious pagans’ parts be these?” Machiavelli, Bruno, Gentili and the idea of religion in Marlowe’s Massacre.’

12.45-13.30 Lunch

13.45-15.15 Session 6: Marlowe from Marlowe to modernity
Professor Richard Hillman (Tours), ‘Dr. Faustus and contemporary French translations of the Faustbuch’
George Oppitz-Trotman (UEA), ‘Doctor Faustus and the English Comedians’

15.15-15.30 Coffee

15.30-16.45 Session 6, continued
Conny Loder (LMU Munich), ‘Christopher Marlowe’s influence on literary, dramatic and intellectual trends in Germany in the seventeenth century’
Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen (Leiden), ‘Marlowe, Shakespeare & Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Two Dutch Case Studies’

17.00-18.00 Drinks reception

Places are limited so please register as soon as possible by visiting http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/conference/registration/

There are also a number of full postgraduate bursaries available, for more information see http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/conference/postgrad-bursaries/

Registration closes on 25 August 2015.

For further information about the conference and the International Christopher Marlowe Project please visit our website http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/ or contact us directly with any queries at InternationalMarlowe@exeter.ac.uk.

Edward Paleit, University of Exeter (Lead Researcher on ‘The International Christopher Marlowe’)

Nora Williams and Jasmine Hunter Evans, University of Exeter (Project Facilitators) 

NeMLA 2012 Conference: Christopher Marlowe in Performance

This panel will ask what can be learned from approaching Christopher Marlowe as a primarily dramatic writer. Papers will be asked to think about plays from a theatrical standpoint, examining the force of performance as a shaping factor in the reception of Marlowe’s plays. We encourage studies of the stage history of Marlowe’s works; additionally, plays that consider the texts within the context of Elizabethan stage history are also welcome. Please send abstracts of 250 words to Louise Geddes at LGeddes@adelphi.edu

The 43rd convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association will be held in Rochester, New York March 15 - 18, 2012. Our host institution this year is St. John Fisher College, and the convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency Rochester. The call for papers (CFP) is now available online and will appear in NeMLA’s summer newsletter by early June; abstracts are due to session chairs by 30 September 2011 unless otherwise noted in the CFP.

Marlowe Society Lecture

At the Rose theatre on Saturday 17th September. Dr. Andy Kesson of Kent University will speak on

'Every merry word a very witchcraft: Dr. Faustus and the supernatural in the early commercial theatres.'

The talk will place the Globe and Rose Theatre stagings of this play in context.

As usual the charge for students will be reduced to £5, the full charge being £10, and coffee and tea will be available at the Rose Theatre from about 10.30, with the lecture commencing at 11 a.m.

Full details will be posted shortly on the Society website Marlowe Society and while payment can be made on the day, it is helpful to have advance notice of attendees, so please notify Events secretary, Barbara Wooding - contact details on the website.

Marlowe Society of America - Free Copy of the Annual

The Marlowe Society of America now has a plan in place to give its current members a free copy of the inaugural issue of the forthcoming annual, Marlowe Studies: An Annual. You will need to request a copy, and the procedure is below.

Here’s what you need to do:
-- Be sure that your membership is current; if you have a question, check with our membership chair, Sarah K. Scott (sscott@msmary.edu)

-- Send an e-mail both to Sarah (sscott@msmary.edu) and Roslyn Knutson, the MSA president (rlknutson@ualr.edu) in which you provide the following information:

1. Your request for a copy
2. The status of your membership (provide the year you joined the MSA if you know that)
3. Your current address

Here’s the most important thing:
-- We need your request by Monday, May 9, 2011
-- If your membership is not now current, you have until 15 April to get it current. You can now become a member or renew your membership online, at http://users.ipfw.edu/stapletm/msa/Membership.html

The press will send you the copy of MS:A at its publication around June 1.

Colloquium on the 'Legacy of the Will' - Call for Papers

Organised by The Early Modern Seminar in Scotland (EMSIS)
in conjunction with the School of Humanities at Strathclyde
University.  Saturday, 26th March 2011

Will's semantic slipperiness fascinated the Renaissance: in all manner of
English and Scots texts of the period we find 'Will too boote, and Will in over-
plus'. The structural conceit of the opening line of John Donne's poem, 'The
Will' exemplifies a key thematic construct to be found in much early modern
literature and a prevalent  intellectual thread in the culture from which this
literature emerges. Donne's poem - this willed enactment of the speaker's last
will and testament to the world he will shortly leave behind in death -
encapsulates the polyvocal qualities of the human 'will' and all that it signifies.
The rich intellectual legacy of the European Renaissance that we, as critics
and researchers, struggle to understand is constructed from the physical and
literary legacies that writers such as Donne, Erasmus, Calvin, Elizabeth I,
Miarlowe, Middleton and others have bequeathed us. It is from these legacies
of authorial 'will' that our very idea of what represents or constitutes the early
modern period has been shaped.

This colloquium will explore the extraordinary malleability of the 'will' and its
various semantic permutations in the context of such issues as subjectivity,
power,  logic, desire, freedom, volition, wit, wisdom, theology and metaphysics.
One of its main purposes is to to investigate what power and significatory
force the 'will' possesses, its limitations and the consequences of its lack of
a stable or fixed location, viewed in the context of the aesthetic, political,
theological and philosophical traditions that informed early modern
literature.

We would welcome 20 minute papers on the early modern 'will' followed by 10
minutes for questions. Various facets of the 'will' that might be investigated are
listed below, though this is not intended to exclude other perspectives on this
topic.

Will as desire or volition: wilfulness, will as voluntas, will as membrum
pundendum (male or female), possession of one's will, excessive willing,
transgressive will.

Theological and philosophical wills: freedom of the will, the negation or
undoing of the will, will as futurity, theological debates on the relationship
between the 'will' and fate or predestination; volition and animality.

Literary and legal wills: the exercise or abdication of authorial will or
intentionality, will as testament, framing legal wills, the interplay between
'will' and 'wit'; w/Will as a proper name and authoritative mark.

You are invited to submit an abstract of not more than 250 words
by 14th February, 2011, to a.thorne@strath.ac.uk<mailto:a.thorne@strath.ac.uk>. You will be notified whether your paper has been accepted by 21st February.