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Agenda de l'ENS de Lyon

In and Out of the Closet

Dates
Du ven 25 nov 2022 au sam 26 nov 2022
Horaires
  • vend. 9h-18h
  • sam. 9h-12h30
Lieu(x)
Maison de la Recherche - Sorbonne Nouvelle

4 rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris

Intervenant(s)
  • Line Cottegnies, Sorbonne Université
  • Orlagh Davies (Durham University),
  • Patrick Durdel (University of Lausanne)
  • Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
  • Caitlin Hubbard (Yale University)
  • Judith Hudson (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  • Sarah Knight (University of Leicester)
  • Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon)
  • Bethany Mayo, Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
  • Naya Tsentourou (University of Exeter) 
  • Christine Sukic (Université de Reims)
  • Emma Whipday (Newcastle University)
  • Ramona Wray (University of Belfast)
  • Thomas Wynn (Durham University)
  • Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Surrey)
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Description générale

Closet drama in England includes a body of neo-Senecan unstaged tragedies beginning with Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius (1592) and ending with Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam (1613), together with pastoral drama, like Lady Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory (1619). The closure of the theatres during the Civil War also forced Margaret Cavendish and John Milton to compose plays that were not necessarily designed for public performance, namely Samson Agonistes (1671) and Cavendish’s two volumes of printed plays (1662; 1668). Yet the distinction between closet drama and public theatres may be overrated, as it emphasises their social and aesthetic differences to the point of erasing any potential similarities or communications. The conference will examine the contiguity between closet drama and commercial theatres, the Continental sources of English Senecan tragedies, the development of another self-consciously elitist genre, the Masque, and the role of women, as they took a more active part in closet drama than in the commercial theatres, either as performers (though silent ones in the Masque) or as playwrights in closet drama.

Key-notes by Ramona Wray (University of Belfast) and Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Surrey).

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  • Chercheurs / Enseignants
  • Chercheurs / Enseignants de l'ENS de Lyon
  • Etudiants
  • Etudiants de l'ENS de Lyon

Sophie.lemercier-goddard [at] ens-lyon.fr (Sophie[dot]lemercier-goddard[at]ens-lyon[dot]fr)

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