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PLEASE PASS THIS NOTICE ALONG Announcing two Special Lectures by John Schofield, Museum of London Archaeologist and Architectural Historian University of Toronto Lecture Friday 27 September: 4--6 PM Location: Emmanuel College Lecture Hall 001 Co-sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, the Department of English, the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, and the Records of Early English Drama Looking Critically at Reformation and Renaissance London In recent years work by archaeologists and historians is beginning to change traditional views about the Reformation and Renaissance eras in London. The City of London, which was damaged by the Great Fire in 1666, can be reconstructed in the imagination. Many old ideas about the capital have to be modified or abandoned. The Great Fire was not the creator of a new city as it is often described. Christopher Wren did not invent the post-Reformation parish church. We can also begin to describe the city which was left behind by many early American and Caribbean colonists; and we can wonder how much of London, its material culture and mentalities, went with them. Royal Ontario Museum/Records of Early English Drama Popular Lecture Saturday, September 28, 2-3 PM Location: Theatre ROM ROM members, seniors, students: $15 General public: $18 New Evidence for the Theatres in Shakespeare's London In recent years archaeologists and historians in London have dug up, from various sources, new evidence about the form and character of several Shakespearean theatres: not only the more famous Rose and Globe on the south bank of the Thames, but also the Theatre, Curtain and Fortune theatres on the north side of the city. Archaeologists have also begun to fill out our knowledge of the Tudor city in which Shakespeare, his colleagues and his audiences lived and worked. Biographical Note John Schofield has been an archaeologist and architectural historian at the Museum of London since 1974. He has written several books on medieval and Tudor London, including The Building of London from the Conquest to the Great Fire (3rd ed, Sutton, 1999) and Medieval London Houses (Yale UP, 1995). He is also Archaeological Consultant to St Paul's Cathedral. For further information contact Sally-Beth MacLean at Records of Early English Drama Phone: 416-813-4073; e-mail: [log in to unmask]