NW Drama Colloquium (tomorrow!)

Dear all,

I just wanted to send round the programme for next week's North West Renaissance Drama Colloquium (http://nwrdc.blogspot.com/) at the Rylands. The day includes a keynote by Nicholas Royle (Sussex) as well as presentations from four of our third year undergraduates, who some of you will have taught. Full registration is £10 (£5 students), but Manchester staff are very welcome just to drop by for individual panels if they are of interest. Just let us know via renaissance.drama@manchester.ac.uk or email me.

All best wishes,
James Smith


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)
Rosie Rees-Bann, Tristan Burke, Laura Swift, Jack Sullivan

12:30-12:50 Refreshment Break

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

1:50-2:50 Lunch provided by Katsouris Deli

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 1HenryIV’

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’ [on Measure for Measure]

5:10-5:20 Wine service
5:20-5:50 Renaissance Poetry Reading
5:50-6:45 Wine reception followed by informal dining and drinks in Manchester