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)