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Event Series Conferences

Revels Office: New Voices in Early Modern Material Culture, Theatre, and Performance

Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

This June, the Revels Office, an international network of early career academics, will hold its first conference with the Society of Antiquaries of London. The conference showcases early career scholars working on the intersections between text, materiality, and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres in Great Britain and Ireland in the long early modern period (1500-1800).

Event Series Lunchtime Lectures

The Flipped Playhouse: Tracing an Early Shift in Tudor Era Playing Spaces

Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

Theatre historian and Shakespeare scholar Laurie Johnson will explain how the spatial logic of early playing spaces flipped during the uneven evolution of the Elizabethan playhouses. From Mankind (c. 1470) to Macbeth (1606), playwrights reversed the way their play texts referred to going in or going out. The shifting shapes of Tudor era playing spaces explain this reversal.