CFP Caroline Drama: The Work of Play (GEMCS)
English drama produced between 1625 and the Restoration has been largely
dismissed as "decadent": disconnected from the world around it, and
designed only for an audience of equally disconnected aristocrats--a
perception that remains largely unchanged despite significant critical and
theoretical work
on the subject in the last twenty years that connect the drama with the
political and religious turmoil of Charles I's reign.
This panel seeks to explore the cultural work performed by this drama, so
long dismissed as the ultimate production of leisure. Possible topics might
include: the politics of drama at court vs. playhouse drama, revivals and
revisions of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays in different social/cultural
conditions, representations of political/religious issues in Caroline
drama. Proposals dealing with gender issues are particularly welcome.
Abstracts (email preferred) to Meg Livingston (livingst@ucla.edu) and/or
Nova Myhill (myhill@ucla.edu) by 4/1.
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of English
Box 90095-1530
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530
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Nova Myhill & James Kushner
Los Angeles, CA
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