November 18, 1994
EXPANDING THE CANON:
NEW DIMENSIONS IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE STUDIES
8:OO am REGISTRATION -- Gilmour Hall Council Chamber
PLENARY SESSION 1 9:00-10:30
Gilmour Hall Council Chamber
Expanding the Canon: Theory and Practice
MODERATOR: Helen Ostovich (McMaster)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jean E Howard (Columbia):
"Other Englands: The View from the Non-
Shakespearean History Play"
RESPONDENT: Paul Stevens (Queen's)
COFFEE 10:30-11:00
PLENARY SESSION 2 11:00-12:30
Gilmour Hall Council Chamber
Reading Dialogue and Performance
MODERATOR: Graham Roebuck (McMaster)
Judith Deitch (U of Toronto): ""`Dialogue-
wise': Rediscovering English Dialogues
1560-1603"
Leslie S. Katz (Amherst): "`Sweete Sir
Timothie, kind sir Timothie, tough sir
Timothie': Voicing Robert Armin's Quips
upon Questions"
Stephanie Wright: "A Text without a Space:
Performing The Tragedy of Miriam"
LUNCH 12:30-2:00
Commons Building, Small Dining Room
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3 AND 4 2:00-3:30
(3) Gilmour Hall Council Chamber
Show and Tell: Spectacle as Meaning
MODERATOR: Mary Silcox (McMaster)
John Astington (U of Toronto): "The Ages of
Man and the Lord Mayor's Show"
Candy Loren (U of Toronto): "`To enter Gods
house, as if it were a Play-house': The
Jacobean `Man-Woman' Transgressively
Reinscribed in the Role of Spectator"
Philip Collington (U of Toronto):
"Middleton, Whitney and Wither:
Stagecraft `in the Light of the Emblem'"
(4) University Hall 122
The Bible and Meditative Tradition
MODERATOR: James Dale (McMaster)
Noam Flinker (U of Haifa): "Biblical Poetry
in the Context of Mid-Sixteenth-Century
Political Tension: The Case of William
Baldwin's The Canticles, or Balades of
Salomon"
Kel Morin (U of Ottawa): "`Thus crave I
mercy': The Preface of Anne Locke"
John Ottenhoff (Alma College, MI):
"Meditating upon Anne Locke's
Meditations"
COFFEE 3:30-4:00
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 5 AND 6 4:00-5:30
(5) Gilmour Hall Council Chamber
Women's Ordeals
MODERATOR: Joan Coldwell (McMaster)
Stanley D. McKenzie (Rochester Institute of
Technology): "`I to my selfe am
strange': The Competing Voices of
Drayton's `Mistress Shore'"
Karen Bamford (Mount Allison): "Sexual
Violence in the Queen of Corinth"
Anthony Martin (Waseda University, Tokyo):
"The `Voice' of an African Woman:
George Herbert's `Aethiopissa'"
(6) University Hall 122
Reading and Writing Kings
MODERATOR: Tom Cain (McMaster)
Joan Parks (U of Wisconsin): "Elizabeth
Cary's Domestic History"
Louise Nichols (U du Quebec a Chicoutimi):
"`My name was known before I came': The
Heroic Identity of the Prince in The
Famous Victories of Henry V"
Sandra Bell (Queens): "The King Writing:
King James VI and Lepanto"
CASH BAR 5:30-7:00
Commons Building, Dining Room
DINNER 7:00
REGISTRATION -- EXPANDING THE CANON
A conference for the rediscovery and exploration of neglected
areas of English writings, 1560-1625, such as non-Shakespearean
drama, particularly lesser known works; poets other than
Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Donne; letters and diaries; travel
literature; popular culture; woemn's writings; emblem books;
masques; prose fiction.
Keynote Speaker: Jean Howard (Columbia University)
"Other Englands: The View from the Non-
Shakespearean History Play"
Respondent: Paul Stevens (Queen's University)
Sponsored by the McMaster University English Association
THE CONFERENCE
8:00 am REGISTRATION The Council Chamber, Gilmour Hall
Coffee & tea served
9:00 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Response
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am PANEL OF SPEAKERS
12:30 pm LUNCHEON (included in registration fee)
2:00 pm PANEL OF SPEAKERS
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm PANEL OF SPEAKERS
5:30 pm Cash Bar
7:00 pm Dinner -- Buffet of 4 salads, 2 entrees (Chicken
with wild mushrooms; Striploin of Beef au jus);
potatoes and vegetables; choice of desserts; wine;
tea & coffee. OPTIONAL: COST $28.00. PLEASE
RESERVE WITH REGISTRATION FORM.
CONFERENCE HOTEL: Visitors Inn, 649 Main St W, Hamilton ON L8S
1A2 -- (905)529-6979. Please contact hotel directly and request
conference rate: $63 single; $68 double (+ tax). Early
reservations advised.
PARKING: Conference parking spaces available. Sterling St.
entrance to campus.
The full programme with names of all speakers and titles of
papers will be available after Oct 15.
More information from Mary Silcox (905) 525-9140 x27314
and Helen Ostovich x24496, or email [log in to unmask]
REGISTRATION FORM
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Registration fee (Canadian funds): Regular = $20
student = $10
dinner = $28
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TOTAL
Current exchange rate of US $ is approximately $1 US: $1.40 Cdn.
Please return this form and cheque (made out to McMaster
University in Canadian funds) to the address following by FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 4:
Mrs Clover Nixon
Department of English
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4L9
