Announcing a One-Day Conference
Elizabethans in Crisis: Drama, Art and Politics in the 1590s
Saturday, 2 October 1999 at Victoria University, Toronto
Sponsored by
Centre for Research in Early English Drama
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Registration information follows the programmme description.
*** Conference Programme ***
Opening Remarks & Introduction 9:10 AM
'Crisis and Innovation: England in the 1590s'
David Dean (Carleton)
Panel I: Drama and Politics 10:30 AM
'"Here in this Garden": The Iconography of the Virgin Queen in
Shakespeare's Richard II'
Helen Ostovich (McMaster)
'Shakespeare's Oldcastle: Religion, Polemic, and the Dynamics of
Theatrical Patronage in Late Elizabethan England'
Paul Whitfield White (Purdue)
Panel II: Politics, Culture and the Visual Arts 1:15 PM
'"Black Dogges & Discontented Minds": Popular Imagery in the 1590s'
Kathryn Brammall (Truman State)
'Portraits and Politics in the 1590s'
Robert Tittler (Concordia)
Panel III: Theatre and Politics in London and the Provinces 3:00 PM
'Playing with Fire: Immolation and the Repertory of Strange's Men'
Lawrence Manley (Yale)
'Falstaff in Gloucestershire: London and Provincial Theatre in the 1590s'
Scott McMillin (Cornell)
Summation 4:00 PM
'Culture Coalescing: The Senectitude of the Elizabethan Age'
Norman L. Jones (Utah State)
Evening Entertainment Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus produced by the
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama in collaboration with CREED and
Handmade Performance.
Stephen Johnson, director
*** REGISTRATION ***
Pre-registration by 24 September
Conference: $42.00 Performance: $12.00
Students: registration free; lunch $6.00; tickets $6.00
Registration includes continental breakfast, coffee breaks and lunch.
Play tickets at the door are subject to availability.
For further information, contact
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
150 Charles Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K9
Phone (416) 585-4504 Fax (416) 585-4594
E-mail inquiries should be sent to
Arleane Ralph <[log in to unmask]>
To register, please send a completed hard copy of the following form with
payment to above address. Make cheques payable to 'Victoria University'
only and mark for 'Crisis 1999 Conference'. Acknowledgment of registration
will be sent by mail or e-mail in September.
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