We are pleased to announce our finalised speakers: Caterina Albano, Birkbeck College 'The Show in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness'. Tony Archdeacon, University of Southampton 'Somebodies and Nobodies in Shakespeare's England'. Alizon Brunning, University of Central Lancashire 'Comedy, Commode, Commodity: or, is Middleton Taking the Piss out of Comedy?' Nick Cox, Manchester Metropolitan University '"No end of subversion': Shakespearean Authority, New Historicism, and the Representation of Plebian Insurrection in the early 1590s'. Mark Dooley, University of Teeside 'Lyly's Gallathea: Inversion, Metamorphosis, and Sexual Difference'. Ina Habermann, Munich 'The Theatre of the Law: Slander and Gender in Swetnam, the Woman-hater'. Clare Harraway, Exter College, Oxford 'Rooms for Reading: The British Museum, The Bodleian, and The Book of Virgil in MarloweUs Dido, Queen of Carthage'. Tom Healy,Birkbeck College '"Tis Done Now, What I Never Thought On": What Motivates Action in Domestic Tragedy?' Tracey Hill, Bath College of Higher Education 'Censorship and the Canon: Sir Thomas More in the 1590s and 1990s'. Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire 'After The Shakespeare Myth'. Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University 'Kings, Queens and Petty Treason: The More than Domesticity of Arden of Faversham'. Mark Hutchings, Bristol 'Audience, Narrative and History: John Mason's The Turk and (Protestant) England's View of (Catholic) Europe'. Peg Katritzky, Wimbledon School of Art 'Mountebanks, 1590-1610: The Visual Evidence'. Alan Macfarlane, University of Aberdeen 'The Sovereignty of Seduction: Elizabeth I in Heywood's 1 & 2 If You Know Not Me'. Stephen OUNeill, University College, Dublin 'In Mack Morrice's Shadow: the Stage Irishman in Late Elizabethan Drama'. Simon Shepherd, Goldsmiths College 'Hamlet Re-Possessed'. Matthew Steggle,Trinity College, Oxford 'Three sorts of Fantasy: What you will, or not Twelfth Night'. Frank Thurmond, University College, Oxford '"Mark the music": Musical and Poetic Harmony in the English Renaissance'. Richard Wilson, Lancaster University '"As Secret as a Dumb Man": Much Ado with Shakespeare's Shadow'. Rowlie Wymer, University of Hull 'Marlowe, Jarman, and the Closet of the Heart'. ************************** *IN SHAKESPEARE'S SHADOW * * * *'MINOR' DRAMA',1590-1610* ************************** A CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, WATFORD CAMPUS,SATURDAY 22 MARCH 1997 'In Shakespeare's Shadow' will bring together research on a number of dramatists (including Greene, Lyly, Marlowe, Marston, Middleton, and Munday) from a variety of theoretical positions: cultural materialism * deconstruction * de-editing * feminist theory * film theory * Marxism * musicology * New Historicism * queer theory * visual theory PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF PLACES ARE AVAILABLE. PROSPECTIVE DELEGATES ARE ADVISED TO BOOK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Cheques for 12 pounds (9 pounds students and concessions) made payable to 'I.S.S.' to: In Shakespeare's Shadow Watford Campus Wall Hall Aldenham Herts. WD2 8AT Further details are available from the convenors by e-mail or telephone: Andrew Spong E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel.: 01707 285651 Andrew Stott E-mail:[log in to unmask] Tel.: 0171 911 5000 x4334 PLEASE CIRCULATE