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 23^rd 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)