Thursday 16 June 2011

Final programme


North West Renaissance Drama Colloquium
John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, Thursday 23rd June 2011

9:15-10:00 Registration/Welcome
10:00-11:00 Panel 1 Chair: Roger Holdsworth (Manchester)
Eoin Price (Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham), ‘The Phoenix and Political Privacy’
Lynsey Blandford (Kent), ‘Middleton and the Symbolism of Trees’
11:00-11:15 Convenience break

11:15-12:30 University of Manchester Undergraduate Presentations
Chair: James Smith (Manchester)
Laura Swift, ‘Travel and the ship of fools in The Antipodes’
Tristan Burke, ‘The Second Maiden’s Tragedy and the Uncanny’
Jack Sullivan, ‘Othello and the State’
Rosie Rees-Bann, ‘The Epitaph in Cervantes and Shakespeare'

12:30-12:50 Refreshment Break

12:50-1:50 Keynote Lecture Chair: Matthew Frost (Manchester University Press)
Professor Nicholas Royle (Sussex), ‘Miracle Play’

1:50-2:50 Lunch
2:50-3:50 Panel 2 Chair: Naya Tsentourou (Manchester)
Sophie Gray (Liverpool), ‘Embodied Texts and Textual Bodies in Doctor Faustus
Gwilym Jones (QMUL), ‘“Play out the Play! I have much to say”: Parts of Falstaff and Hal in 1Henry IV
3:50-4:10 Refreshment break
4:10--5:10 Panel 3 Chair: Jerome de Groot (Manchester)
Brian Schneider (Manchester), ‘“Sit, See and Hear”: The Visual and the Aural in Early Modern Prologues and Epilogues’
Mark Robson (Nottingham), ‘Surviving Truth’

5:10-5:20 Wine service
5:20-5:50 Renaissance Poetry Reading
Verity Emmanuel and Louise Machen (Manchester)

William Shakespeare, from Love’s Labours Lost
John Donne, ‘A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day’
Thomas Middleton, from The Revenger’s Tragedy
Hester Pulter, ‘On the Same’
John Donne, ‘The Blossom’
Christopher Marlowe, from ‘Hero and Leander’
William Shakespeare, from Twelfth Night

5:50-6:45 Wine reception followed by informal dining and drinks in Manchester

Wednesday 15 June 2011

logistics

John Rylands Library, Deansgate
The venue for the colloquium is the historic John Rylands Library, located on Deansgate in the heart of Manchester. The main entrance to the building is just off Deansgate, in the modern extension to the Library. From Deansgate, walk along the side of the Historic Building to the main entrance.

The John Rylands Library,
150 Deansgate,
Manchester,
M3 3EH

A map is available from the link below:
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/deansgate/visitus/howtofindus/

By Metro-Shuttle Bus/Train

The easiest way to reach the Library from Piccadilly, Oxford Road and Victoria railway stations is via the free Metro-Shuttle buses.
The number 1 Metro-Shuttle runs from the forecourt of Piccadilly station every few minutes. Alight on John Dalton Street at stop WX, turn left onto Deansgate and you will see the Library in front of you.
The number 2 Metro-Shuttle runs from Victoria station every ten minutes. Alight on Deansgate, opposite the John Rylands Library.
http://www.tfgm.com/buses/metroshuttle.cfm

By car

Parking in the centre of Manchester is notoriously difficult. The nearest NCP car parks are on Watson Street, New Quay Street and Blackfriars Street.

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Registration is now open for the inaugural
 North West Renaissance Drama Colloquium, a one-day event to be held at

John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, Thursday 23rd June 2011

A keynote lecture will be given by
Professor Nicholas Royle
(University of Sussex), author of The Uncanny, How to Read Shakespeare, After Derrida and Quilt
Admission: £10/£5 for students

To express interest, email
Naya Tsentourou and James Smith at:

renaissance.drama@manchester.ac.uk

Registration ends Friday 10th June

Texts under discussion at the NWRDC

If you are interested in preparing for the colloquium by revisiting any of the texts under discussion on the day, here is a brief list, along with suggested editions (except for the easily available Marlowe and Shakespeare). This is obviously by no means compulsory.
  
Texts principally under discussion at the colloquium
Shakespeare, 1HenryIV (the subject of Nicholas Royle’s keynote)
                      Measure for Measure (the subject of Mark Robson's paper)
Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Middleton, The Phoenix and Women Beware Women
(both Middleton plays appear in Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, available in paperback; Women Beware Women is available in editions by Revels and by Oxford)
Texts under discussion in the University of Manchester undergraduate panel
Richard Brome, The Antipodes (available online at Royal Holloway’s “Richard Brome online” project)
Shakespeare, Othello and Hamlet
Middleton, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy (appears as The Lady’s Tragedy in Middleton The Collected Works and as The Maiden’s Tragedy in Martin Wiggins (ed.), Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies)