Love, Sex and Romance in Early Drama
26 April 2014, University of Toronto
Robert Gill Theatre, Drama Centre
214 College Street, Toronto, M5T 2Z9
11:00-12:00pm Session 1
Romance Plays and Romancing Plays
Professor Joanne Findon (Trent University) and
Dr Charlotte Steenbrugge (University of Toronto / University of Bristol)
Chair: Professor David Klausner (University of Toronto)
12:00-1:30pm lunch break (no lunch is provided)
1:30-2:30pm Session 2
Sex and the Chicken Coop: On staging La farce du Poullier à six personnages’ juicy bits
Professor Mario Longtin (University of Western Ontario)
Sex and the Serva in the Recueil Fossard (Paris, 1580s)
Professor Rosalind Kerr (University of Alberta)
Chair: Professor Alexandra Johnston (University of Toronto)
2:30-3:30pm Session 3
‘For when did friendship take / A breed for barren metal of his friend?’: Staging love as sterile
currency inThe Merchant of Venice
Erin Weinberg (Queen’s University)
The Genres of Consent: Bonduca and the Failure of Chivalry
Dr Andrew Bretz (University of Guelph / Wilfrid Laurier University)
Chair: Professor Mario Longtin (University of Western Ontario)
3:30-4:00pm coffee and tea break
4:00-5:00pm Session 4
Roundtable with the directors and actors of Lancelot of Denmark and Of Winter and Summer
Chair: Professor Joanne Findon (Trent University)