CALL FOR PAPERS: Perdition Catch My Soul - Shakespeare, Hell and Damnation

Saturday 8 December 2018, 10.00am
Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre
Tickets: £55 (£45 Members and £25 Students)


Synopsis

This one-day symposium will examine the dramatization of early modern philosophies of hell and damnation. We will ask how Renaissance drama explored the hazards of judgement, damnation, and perdition.

• What did playwrights think it meant to sell one’s soul to the devil?
• What was their definition of sin?
• What role did the devil play in theatre – and in people’s everyday lives?

Papers are invited on (but not limited to) topics such as: hell, damnation, sin, the devil, the demonic, Satan, witchcraft, the supernatural, prophecy, and theological disputes .

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to research@shakespearesglobe.com by Monday 15 October.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultures of Mortality: Death on the Shakespearean Stage

1-3 December 2016
Shakespeare’s Globe

2016 sees the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, the theatrical entrepreneur Philip Henslowe and the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Globe Education is marking this memorable year with an international conference that explores death, rituals of dying and the experience of loss on the early modern stage.

This conference invites papers that explores these themes and more. It is particularly interested in:
rituals of death; artistic representation; shifting practices from Medieval to Renaissance/early modern; loss and bereavement; performativity of death- performing death on the early modern stage; commemoration: textual, artistic and dramatic; philosophical, religious and social attitudes to death and dying; wills and legacies.

Please submit a 150 word abstract/proposal tofarah.k@shakespearesglobe.com by 1st of March 2016

Farah Karim-Cooper
Head of Higher Education & Research
Globe Education
020 7902 1439

Shakespeare, The Earls of Derby & the North West

An International Symposium with leading scholars of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre culture, marking the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Knowsley Hall. 

19th October, 2016

To purchase tickets, visit Shakespeare Symposium or call 0151 489 4827

This symposium is being held at Knowsley Hall, tickets are £75 and include; refreshments throughout the day and a 2 course hot and cold buffet lunch. Places for this event are limited and can be booked online by clicking here.

PROGRAMME

9.00am - Registration 9.20am - The Earl of Derby: Welcome

9.25am - Dr Stephen Lloyd (Curator of the Derby Collection and Chair of the morning Session)


SESSION 1: SHAKESPEARE

9.30am - Professor Richard Wilson (Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Kingston University and the Rose Theatre): The Only Shake Scene in a Country: William the Conqueror

10.00am - Dr David George (Emeritus Professor of English, Urbana University, Ohio) The youthful Shakespeare: out of the shadows

10:30am - Anthony Holden (Writer and Biographer) The 1590s: Shakespeare’s formative years

11.00am - Coffee Break


SESSION 2: THE DERBY COMPANIES

11.30am - Professor Lawrence Manley (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven) Magical Plays of the Derby Companies

12.00pm - Dr Edel Lamb (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, School of Arts English and Languages, Queen’s University, Belfast) Patronage and Plays: The Revival of the Children of Paul’s in 1599

12.30pm - Professor Sally-Beth MacLean (Professor Emerita of English and Director of REED, University of Toronto) The 6th Earl of Derby and his touring Players: an illustrated overview

1.00pm - Lunch

Chair for afternoon sessions: Professor Elspeth Graham (Professor of Early-Modern Literature, Liverpool John Moores University)

SESSION 3: LITERATURE, MASQUE & PERFORMANCE

2.00pm - Dr Vanessa Wilkie (William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval and British Historical Manuscripts, The Huntington Library, California) ‘To the Right Honorable...’: The Literary Patronage and Masque Culture of the Stanley Women

2.30pm - Dr Rebecca Bailey (Lecturer in English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University) ‘Your name shall live / In the new yeare: as in the age of gold’: The Staging of Sir Thomas Salusbury’s Twelfth Night Masque, performed for the Stanley Household at Knowsley Hall in 1640/1, and its contexts

3.00pm - ‘Discoveries in Practice’: a short discussion with actors and director Professor Kathy Dacre on the first performance of the Knowsley Masque since 1641; part of the ‘Voicing Shakespeare’ research project at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance

3.15pm - Tea

SESSION 4: SHAKESPEARE NOW IN THE NORTH WEST

3.30pm - Julian Bowsher (Senior Archaeologist, Museum of London Archaeology) The Playhouse in Prescot as seen from the London Theatreland

4.00pm - Patrick Spottiswoode (Director, Globe Education, Shakespeare’s Globe) Education and Shakespeare’s Globe

4.30pm - Dr Nicholas Helm (Helm Architecture, London) Shakespeare and Architecture: What sort of a Replica?: The Playhouse in Prescot

5.00pm - Discussion 5.30pm - Closing Remarks


Liverpool John Moores University

Meta-Play: Early Modern Drama and Metatheatre

Meta-Play: Early Modern Drama and Metatheatre

University of Kent
13-14 June 2015

Saturday 13 June
10.30-11.00: Registration

11.00-12.00: Keynote Lecture Professor Robert Shaughnessy (University of Kent)

12.00-1.30: Panel 1

• Contemporary Practice at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
• 'Then draw the model': theatre architecture as metatheatre in Elizabethan/Jacobean performance spaces- Ildiko Solti (Independent Scholar)
• Across the Ages: Child Players and Reconstruction of Original Practice – Mark Hamilton (Regent’s University London)
• Meta-play and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse – Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe)

2.30-4.30: Panel 2

Embodying Metatheatre: Now and Then

• Gesture and social cognition in Shakespeare’s theatre - Darren Tunstall (Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey)
• Matter-Theatre: Cymbeline’s Rhetoric and Conspicuous Construction – Callan Davies (Exeter)
• Levels of communication in a Norwegian A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Lars Harald Maagerø (King’s)
• Touching the other in Cheek by Jowl’s Measure for Measure – Pascale Aebischer (Exeter)

4.45-6.15: Performance Workshop

Directed by Emma Whipday (Oxford), including Roundtable Discussion

Sunday 14 June
9.45-11.15: Panel 3

Theorizing Metatheatre:

• Metatheatre Via Comedy and Tragedy: Comedy and Tragedy Via Metatheatre - John Kerr (Minnesota)
• Are Shakespeare’s plays always metatheatrical? – Steve Purcell (Warwick)
• All ‘Metatheatre’ is Not Created Equal: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Navigation of the Spectrum of Dramatic Representation - Nathaniel C. Leonard (Westminster College, Missouri)

11.30-1.00: Panel 4

Social Life, Social Spaces

• This is the night that I must play my part’: Metatheatricality as a Trope for The Socially Corrective Power of Theatre in Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) - Iman Sheeha (Warwick)
• Playing with(in) London spaces: new meanings of metatheatre behind the dramatic success of the Restoration libertine – Gabriella Infante (King’s)
• Pleasing Fantasies: Metatheatre as Political Fiction in Othello – Ben Morgan (Oxford)

2.00-3.30: Panel 5

Engaging Audiences

• ‘A stranger Pyramus than e’er played here’: some uses of metatheatre in A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Trevor R Griffiths (Exeter)
• ‘A frightful pleasure’: metadrama, malcontents, attraction and repulsion in The Changeling’ – Jan Doorly (King’s)
• “So Much For My Happy Ending”: Avoiding The Happy Ending in Twelfth Night - Mary Way (Kent)

3.45-4.45: Performing Gender Practitioner Panel

Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe)
Kirsty Bushell (RSC)
Jimmy Tucker (Propeller)

4.45-5.45: Keynote Speaker: Dr Bridget Escolme (Queen Mary, University of London)

Register at

http://store.kent.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=26&catid=98&prodvarid=100

For questions please email s.dustagheer-463@kent.ac.uk and h.r.newman@kent.ac.uk

British Academy Shakespeare Lecture: ‘The two hours’ traffic of our stage’: Time for Shakespeare

Professor Tiffany Stern

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 6-7.15pm
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London

When the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet announces that the performance will last two hours, what does Shakespeare mean? Join Professor Tiffany Stern at the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, as she asks how time was understood in an age of sandglasses, sundials and inaccurate clockwork. Considering the sound and the look of the instruments of time, this event will ask about Shakespeare’s works ranging from the practical to the editorial and to the analytical. How long did Shakespeare’s plays take to perform? Why are Shakespearean characters associated with ways of measuring time? What textual cruxes in Shakespeare’s plays relate to timepieces? And what did terms like an hour, a minute, or a second actually convey to a Shakespearean audience?

About the Speaker:
Tiffany Stern is Professor of Early Modern Drama at the University of Oxford. Her books include Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (2007) and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009). She has edited a number of plays and written over forty articles and chapters on 16th, 17th and 18th century literature.

Admission to this event is Free but you are required to register on the British Academy website in order to book online.

Victoria and Albert Study Day: An Audience with Shakespeare

Saturday 3 May 2014, 11.00 – 16.30, Seminar Room 3

11.00 – 11.45 ‘Life on the Southbank’
Professor Andy Gurr, University of Reading

11.50 – 12.35 ‘Into the Playhouses’
Professor Andy Gurr, University of Reading

12.35 – 13.35 Lunch

13.35 – 14.20 ‘Audience Comforts and Goodies’
Professor Tiffany Stern, University of Oxford

14.20 – 15.05 ‘Stagecraft & Special Effects’
Dr Will Tosh, Shakespeare’s Globe

15.05 – 15.35 Tea and Coffee

15.35 – 16.20 ‘Before the First Act; After the Last’
Professor Tiffany Stern, University of Oxford

16.20 – 16.30 Q&A

£45, £35 concessions, £15 students Including V&A students
Call V&A Bookings 020 7942 2525 or visit www.vam.ac.uk/courses

Shakespeare’s Globe: Globe Education Teaching Associate

Globe Education is seeking a part-time teaching associate to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in its thriving higher education and postgraduate programme. The candidate should have a Ph.D. or be close to finishing one. The post is available from the 1st of October and interviews will be held the week of the 24th of September.

If you are interested in applying, please send a CV and cover letter, including the name of two referees to Robert Norman,robert.n@shakespearesglobe.com by Wednesday the 19th of September.

Farah Karim-Cooper Head of Research & Courses, Globe Education
020 7902 1439

Shakespeare and the Banquet of the Senses at The Globe

A season of events consisting of academic conferences, lectures and staged readings around the theme of the senses in early modern culture and performance. Please follow the link to see the brochure and book tickets or to register for the postgraduate forum and/or the international conference at Shakespeare’s Globe: http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/education/events

Speakers throughout the season (lectures and conferences) include: 

Dr Tarnya Cooper (National Portrait Gallery), 

Professor Evelyn Welch (QMUL), 

Dr Francois Quiviger (Warburg), 

Professor Stanley Wells and Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Centre, Stratford), 

Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones (Oxford), 

Professor Richard Wilson (Cardiff), 

Dr Margaret Healy (Sussex), 

Professor Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde), 

Dr Lucy Munro (Keele), 

Dr Joan Fitzpatrick (Loughborough), 

Dr P.A. Skantze (Roehampton), 

Professor Laura Farina (West Virginia), 

Professor Ayanna Thompson (ASU), 

Professor David Lindley (Leeds), 

Professor William West (Northwestern), 

Professor Erica Fudge (Strathclyde).

Readings:

George Chapman, Ovid’s Banquet of Sense (1595): Sunday 9 October
Tomas Tomkis, Lingua (1607): Sunday 23 October

We will also feature a reading of The History of Cardenio by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, recreated by Professor Gary Taylor: Sunday 20 November

For further enquiries, please contact Dr Farah Karim-Cooper farah.k@shakespearesglobe.com