Medieval
English Theatre Conference 2024
Saturday
6 April 2024
Newcastle University
Programme
Saturday
6 April 2024 – Newcastle University
10:00am -
Registration, with refreshments
10:45am -
Welcome and Opening of METh2024
11:00am
- 12:30pm – Session 1: Illuminating the Margins
-
‘Dramatic
Margins’, Charlotte Steenbrugge (University of Sheffield)
- ‘Christ
Riding the Stang’, Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds)
-
‘Narrating
from the Margins’, Sarah Grandage (University of Nottingham) and Dana Key (University of Nottingham)
12:30pm
- 1:30pm – Lunch (at venue)
1:30pm
- 3:00pm – Session 2: Drama on the Margins
-
‘Reconsidering
the Ludic Figures in Kuperstichkabinett MS 78 D5’, Nadia van Pelt (Delft University of Technology) and Olivia Robinson (University of Birmingham)
-
‘The Drama
of the Scaffold: Punishment and Performance in Medieval France’, Margaret Pappano (Queen’s University, Canada)
- ‘Henry
Adamson’s The Muses Threnodie as Para-drama’, David Parkinson (University of Saskatchewan) and Pamela King (University of Glasgow)
3:00pm
- 3:30pm – Break with refreshments
3:30
- 5:00pm – Session 3: Pre-Dramatic Theatre Panel
-
‘Pre-Dramatic
Theatre’, Eleanor Rycroft (University of Bristol), Clare Wright (University of Kent), Greg Walker (University of Edinburgh)
5:00pm
- 5:30pm – Closing Break with refreshments
5:30pm
- 6:30pm – Medieval English Theatre Society AGM (all welcome)
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Many
Thanks,
James
--
Dr
James Cummings, Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late-Medieval Literature,
School
of English, Newcastle University
