Previous ShBemss - Seminar Series
2023-24 season – sessions beginning at 5pm (UK time) unless otherwise indicated
24th?October 2023:?Adam Hansen (Northumbria) - 'Vision and Vengeance in?The Changeling'
14th?November 2023: Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin)/Duncan Salkeld (Chichester) -??‘Arden of Feversham: Round Table’??????????
12th?December 2023 (6pm UK time):?Amy Saunders (Winchester) - ?‘'Reconstructing early modern royal motherhood in heritage sites'?????????????
16th?January 2024: Rama Friedlander (Sheffield) -? 'Shakespeare's Histories and Holinshed's Latin Quotations'
13th?February 2024: Marie-Claire Phélippeau (Pres.?Amici Thomae Mori) - ‘Thomas More’
19th?March 2024: Tom Corns (Bangor) -? ‘Milton and Disability’
9th?April 2024: Pierre Kapitaniak (Montpellier 3) - ‘Early Modern Ghosts’
14th?May 2024: Tristan Burke (Bangor) - ‘Godwin’s St. Leon’
11th?June 2024: Eoin Price (Swansea) - ‘The Deep Time of the Early Modern Repertory'
2022-23 season – sessions beginning at 5pm unless otherwise indicated.
18th October 2022:?Elaine Hobby (Loughborough): ‘News from?The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn’
15th November 2022:?Maddalena Repetto:?‘Not “discontented” after all: early evidence of Thomas May’s literary and political philosophy’.
13th December 2022:?Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Montpellier 3): ‘Presentation of?The Anatomy of?Insults in Shakespeare's World
17th January 2023:?Declan Kavanagh (Kent): 'Reading as a Protective Practice: Venereal Disease, Medical Knowledge and Tobias Smollett'.
14th March 2023:?Catherine Evans (Manchester): ‘Opening the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons’’18th April 2023:Bill Engel (Sewanee), Grant Williams (Carleton), Rory Loughnane (Kent): ‘New Directions in the Renaissance Death Arts’
16th May 2023: John Gillies (Essex): ‘Holy Conversation in Shakespeare’
30th?June 2023 at 3pm (UK time):?Victoria Bladen (Queensland): ‘The Tree of Life in Early Modern English Literature’
11th July 2023: Janice Valls-Russell (Montpellier 3), Chloe Renwick (Northumbria): ‘Thomas Heywood’
2021-22 Programme
October 12th:?Anna Groundwater (National Museum of Scotland) ‘Materialising Mary Queen of Scots’
November 16th:?Helen Wilcox (Bangor)?‘Metaphysical Harmonies: reading seventeenth-century English lyric poetry through music’
December 14th:?Domenico Lovascio (Genoa) ‘Fletcher and Massinger’s?The False One: Dating, First Performance and Classical Sources’
January 25th:?Andrew Power (Sharjah)?'Love Notes, Hidden Sonnets, and Lost Sonnets in Early Modern Love Tragedy'. Unusually, for the series, this talk will begin at 5pm (UK time)
February 15th:?Cora James (Sheffield)?'Elizabeth Currer as the Widow Ranter: Female transgression in the New World'
March 15th: Louise Marshall (Aberystwyth) ‘What can eighteenth-century theatre tell us about Culture Wars? - Elizabeth Griffith,?The Times?(1779)’
Rose Hilton (Sheffield Hallam): “A Nabob in the Wrong? Examining Elizabeth Griffith’s Presentation of National Identity in?A Wife in the Right?(1772)”
April 26th:?Liam Semler (Sydney) - round table on?Coriolanus
May 10th:?Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores)?‘Knowledge, Doubt and The Man in the Moon’
June 7th:?Bronwen Price (Ind. Scholar) ‘Mary Chudleigh’
2020-21 Programme
17 November 2020
Daniel Yabut (Montpellier 3) ‘Early modern actors’ manuscript parts: what relevance might they have for actors, teachers and editors of early modern drama’
15 December 2020
Helen Newsome (Sheffield) and Jade Scott (Glasgow) ‘“for goddes sake kepe my writing secrete for it is my destruction”: Secret letters of the queens of Scots’.
19 January 2021
Michael Durrant (Bangor) ‘Old Books, New Beginnings: Recovering Lost Pages in Bangor's Early Modern Printed Books’
16 February 2021
David McInnis and other contributors to the Arden Early Modern Drama Guide to Tamburlaine, ‘New Perspectives on Tamburlaine’
16 March 2021
William E. Engel (Sewanee) ‘Emblems and Early Modern Visuality’
13 April 2021
Mary Peace (Sheffield Hallam), ‘“For a sofa is more dangerous than a bed”: Luxury, Britain and the Age of Discomfort’
18 May 2021
Vicki Kay (Bangor) ‘''This I make my te?tmt': issues of trust in Lady Katherine Barnardiston's last will and testament'