Globe Theatre Research in Action: Beds and Bedroom Scenes


Share the process of discovery as actors and practitioners explore performance in our indoor Jacobean theatre.

Our Research in Action workshops give you the chance to be part of our exploration into the indoor theatres of seventeenth-century London. The workshops mix theatre practice and scholarship in an engaging investigation of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’s theatrical capacities.

Using extracts from well-known and less-familiar plays, Globe actors and leading academics will test the dramatic and technical potential of our indoor space. Expect discoveries – and expect to be asked for your feedback!

Thursday 6 August

With Dr Will Tosh and Dr Elizabeth Sharrett.
Cast TBC.

Will Tosh and Elizabeth Sharrett (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) explore the performance of bedroom scenes in early modern drama. How did playwrights use the challenging intimacy of the indoor playhouse to highlight moments of seduction and delight, as well as threat, sexual violence and sexualised murder?


University of Sidney Lecture: “Farmyard choreographies in early modern England”, Professor Erica Fudge

Co-presented with HARN, the Human Animal Research Network at the University of Sydney

Date: 5 August, 2015
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Venue: Law School Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School, Eastern Avenue, the University of Sydney
RSVP: Free and open to all with online registration requested. To register, visit: whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-erica-fudge

How do we read animals that have left almost no textual traces? That is the central question here. Following a path from the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, and the work of John Law and Donna Haraway, through Renaissance dance manuals (encountering some drunks along the way), the paper ends up in the fields and farmyards of early seventeenth-century Essex, chasing glimpses of human-livestock interactions. The problem faced is that these relationships were largely tacit ¬ there is very little written record of what it was like to live with a cow; or what it was like to be a sheep in the early modern period.

The paper asks, then, what kind of reading might we do when we are engaging with texts that are not there? The evidence used to begin to answer these questions is early modern, but the hope is that some of the implications might have a wider resonance in animal studies.

Professor Erica Fudge is Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and is the Director of the British Animal Studies Network. Her publications are in two main areas: work written for a wider than academic audience on human/animal relations – Animal(2004) and Pets (2008) as well as articles in History Today magazine; and academic work on early modern culture – her books Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture (2000) and Brutal Reasoning: Animals, History and Humanity in Early Modern England (2006). She will be taking up an AHRC one-year research fellowship in September 2015 to undertake further work exploring the lives of the people and animals on early modern English smallholdings – she wants to know what it was like to be a cow in the early seventeenth century.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Shakespeare and War

Critical Survey Special Issue
Guest Editor: Patrick Gray, Durham University.

The tercentenary of Shakespeare's death fell in 1916, in the midst of the First World War, and the quartercentenary will fall next year, 2016, amid what looks likely to be continuing conflict in the Middle East, in the wake of more than two decades of intensive Western military engagement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Recent research on Shakespeare and war includes Franziska Quabeck, Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare (2013); Irena Makaryk and Marissa McHugh, eds., Shakespeare and the Second World War (2012); Paola Pugliatti, Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition (2010); and Ros King and Paul Franssen, eds., Shakespeare and War (2009).

Notable recent productions include Ivo van Hove's Kings of War (2015), re-imagining Henry V, 1-3 Henry VI, and Richard III, as well as the BBC’s acclaimed Hollow Crown mini-series (2012), presenting Shakespeare¹s second tetralogy of English history plays. If production plans hold, the second season of the series, The Wars of the Roses, presenting the first tetralogy, will appear next year in 2016.

In light of this critical and popular interest, as well as current events, Critical Survey invites essays in the range of 5,000 to 7,000 words, inclusive, on any aspect of the connection between Shakespeare and war, to be submitted by 15 January 2016. Innovative critical approaches will be considered, as well as historicist scholarship; in keeping with the aims of Critical Survey, the only core requirement is language that is clear, concise, and accessible.

Informal inquiries about possibilities for essays, as well as proposals for book reviews, performance reviews, and review essays, are welcome and encouraged. Please direct all correspondence to the guest editor, Patrick Gray, at patrick.gray@durham.ac.uk.

Submissions should be sent by 15 January, 2016 by email to the same address, patrick.gray@durham.ac.uk, as Microsoft Word documents. Two hard copies, anonymized for peer review, should also be sent, along with a separate cover letter, to the mailing address for Critical Survey:

Critical Survey
English Literature Group
School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire
De Havilland Campus
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB
United Kingdom

A style guide and additional submission information is available online: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/cs/

Patrick Gray
Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
Department of English Studies
Durham University
patrick.gray@durham.ac.uk

https://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/academicstaff/?id=11777

JOBS: Teaching Fellow in Italian (Part-Time), University of Oxford

Closing date 6th August 2015

Teaching Fellow in Italian (Part-Time), University of Oxford
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford
Grade 6: £27,057 - £32,277 with a discretionary range to £35,256 p.a. (pro rata)

The Faculty are seeking a part-time Teaching Fellow in Italian. The appointee will give 24 lectures on Dante and prelims set texts; and will be involved in the undergraduate admissions process and examining.

Applicants must possess a good undergraduate degree and Master’s degree in Italian, and should be pursuing (or have completed) a DPhil in Italian. They should have some relevant teaching experience at undergraduate level and be fluent in written and spoken English and Italian.

This post is fixed-term from 1 October 2015 to 30 June 2016.

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Thursday 6 August 2015. Further particulars for the post (which all applicants are advised to consult) are available below.

recruitment@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
For further details, see here

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Association for Robin Hood Studies: New Journal

The International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) is pleased to announce the creation of a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. The journal will be published bi-annually beginning in Spring 2016 and will be available on the IARHS’ website, Robin Hood Scholars: IARHS on the Web: http://robinhoodscholars.blogspot.com.

Scholars are invited to send original research on any aspect of the Robin Hood tradition. The editors welcome essays in the following areas: formal literary explication, manuscript and early printed book investigations, historical inquiries, new media examinations, and theory / cultural studies approaches.

We are looking for concise essays, 4,000-8,000-words long. Submissions should be formatted following the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions and queries should be directed to both Valerie B. Johnson (valerie.johnson@lmc.gatech.edu) and also Alexander L. Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu).
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