Programme
Conference organised by
Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle) & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS Lyon)
Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle
4, rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris
Salle du Conseil
Friday 25 November
9.15 : welcome
9:30-11 : panel 1 : Unstaged plays : Chair: Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris-Cité)
- Patrick Durdel (University of Lausanne): “Before Closet Drama: Jasper Heywood and Translation as Genre”
- Christine Sukic (Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne): “‘when perform’d/ Will this dull vow be?’: George Chapman’s Unstaged Plays 1605”
- Sarah Knight (University of Leicester): “No Plays for the Stage”: Fulke Greville and Closet Drama”
11:00-11:30 : pause
11.30-12:30: keynote 1:
Ramona Wray (Queen’s University Belfast): “Women Writers and the Early Modern Closet: Classification, Performance and the Dramatic Canon”
Chairs: Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard
12:30 -14:00 : buffet lunch
14:00-15.30: panel 2 : The Tragedy of Mariam as Closet Drama : Chair: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Judith Hudson (Birkbeck College, University of London): “‘Shows and proofs uneven’: Women, evidence and uncertainty in The Tragedy of Mariam”
- Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon) & Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle): “Learning and Teaching in The Tragedy of Mariam”
15.30-15:45: pause
15:45-17:15: panel 3 Closet drama & court masques: Chair: Guillaume Coatalen (CYU)
- Emma Whipday (Newcastle University): “Closet Dramas and Court Masques: Embodiment, Agency, and Female Performance”
- Caitlin Hubbard (Yale University): “Out of the Closet and Onto the Public Stage: Henrietta Maria, William Davenant, and Overcoming English Cultural Resistance to the Staged Woman”
- Bethany Mayo (director, Baltimore Shakespeare Factory) : “Staging Mariam for the Zoom Age”
17:15-18:00: Round Table: “Closet Drama: For the Stage or Not for the Stage?”:
with Ramona Wray, Marion Wynne-Davies, Emma Whipday, Bethany Mayo, Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard
19:00: Conference Dinner
Saturday 26 November
9. 15: welcome
9.30-10.30 : keynote 2:
Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Surrey): “Elizabeth Brackley’s and Jane Cavendish’s The Concealed Fancies (c.1645) Space Geography”
Chairs: Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard
10.30-10.45: pause
10.30-11.45: panel 4 : Cavendish & Beyond : Chair: Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (Université de Rouen)
- Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Université) : “Oral and Silent Reading as Performance in Margaret Cavendish’s Love’s Adventure and The Convent of Pleasure”
- Thomas Wynn (Durham University) : “Le Drame de la vie (1792): In and out of Restif de La Bretonne’s closet”
11.45-12.15: general discussion and conclusion
End of the conference 12.15