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To view any of our past lectures please visit our YouTube channel.
To view any of our past lectures please visit our YouTube channel.
Organised by Juliana Beykirch, Dr Bethan Davies, Mirjam Haas, Maria Maciejewska, and Dr Gina Walter
“Make you to ravel all this matter out” (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.4)
Within early modern studies, there has been a growing interest in the intersections between text, materiality, and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres. The Revels Office, an international research group comprised of early career academics, has always been fascinated by the relationship between textual, visual and material cultures and the material realities of theatre and performance.
Our first conference showcases emerging scholars working on early modern culture, materiality, and theatre, focusing on the long early modern period in Great Britain and Ireland (1500-1800). Papers explore objects, clothing, and bodies in various kinds of performance spaces, from streets to tiltyards to playhouses.
Confirmed speakers include Dr Alexandra Collinson (Newcastle University), Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), Alessandra Curtis, Patrick Durdel (University of Lausanne), Kristen Vitale Engel (University of Connecticut), Dr Meryl Faiers (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), Lizzie Conrad Hughes (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), Hannah Merlander (King’s College London), Michelle Michel (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), Emma Mitchell (Brunel University of London), Dr Robert Stearn (Mary Ward Centre), Dr Lydia Valentine (Shakespeare’s Globe), and Raghav Verma (Universität Tübingen).
Our keynote speaker, Professor Catherine Richardson FSA (University of East Anglia), will share her research on Shakespeare’s Objects (forthcoming, Arden Shakespeare).
The conference will take place at Burlington House and will be live-streamed and recorded for online audiences.
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Concession tickets are available for anyone requiring a reduced rate, such as attendees who are students, retired, precariously employed, on a low income, or who have a disability.
The Revels Office would like to thank the Bibliographical Society for their generous support of the conference.
Please note that booking closes at 5pm (BST) on Monday 8 June.
