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
