A14: Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Drama

Seminar Leader: Robert Henke, Washington University

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Belfast

Robert Henke, Washington University: “Histrionic Poverty in Ruzante, the Commedia dell’Arte, and Shakespeare”

Jane Tylus, New York University: “The Ethics of Pastoral Drama”

Christian Billing, University of Hull: “‘Ick bin dorick all Dutchlant gueresen’: Migration and the Roguish Outsider”

Bianca Calabresi, Kenyon College: “The Prostitute as Paragon in Early Modern Print Culture”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Belfast

Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin – Madison: “Res Publica and Res Impudica: Ob-scenity in Spanish Golden Age Drama”

Georgina Dopico-Black, University of Wisconsin – Madison: “Imperial Translations: ‘Moors’ and ‘Indians’ on the New World Stage”

Michael Armstrong-Roche, Wesleyan University: “Unity and Diversity in Cervantes’ Algerian-Captivity Plays: The Algerian Market in Bodies, Souls, Fatherlands, and Languages as a Mirror for the World”

Philip Lorenz, New York University: “‘Our Absence to Supply’: Operations of Power in Measure for Measure and Fuente Ovejuna”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Belfast

Lara Bolvilsky, Washington University: “ ‘The Stock of Barabas’: Jewishness on the English Stage”

Peter Parolin, University of Wyoming: “The Traveler as Actor: Faustus in Rome”

Pamela Brown, University of Connecticut: “Cross-Channel Flyting: The Actress as Satirist and Target”

Rachel Poulsen, University of Chicago: “Incest, Homoeroticism, and Sexual Taboos in Della Porta and Middleton”