**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****
(more information about this international conference
is available online at:
http://www.theatron.co.uk/spidersweb )
With the support of the Humanities Research Centre of
the University of Warwick (UK), the School of Theatre
Studies and the Centre for the Study of the
Renaissance will be hosting an international two-day
residential conference from 29th – 30th April, 2000
entitled:
‘“Kissing Spiders”?: Representing the Female Body on
and off the Early Modern English Stage.’
Conference proceedings will interrogate the
intellectual disciplines, literary genres, tropes and
material practices which surround various
representations of femininity on and off the early
modern English stage, particularly those considered
within discourses of a transvestite theatre.
Topics of particular interest may include, but are not
limited to:
- Scientific and/or philosophical theories of the
female body
- Female chastity and/or sexual availability
- The poetics of homo-eroticism and the desirability
of the ‘play-boy’
- Women and Cuckoldry
- Cross-dressing and ‘proto-feminism’
- The female grotesque
- The female body in the theatre of anatomy and the
spectacle of human dissection
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On the evening of Saturday April 29th, delegates will
be invited to a private viewing of a professional
all-male performance of Ben Jonson’s **Epicœne** in
the Theatre Studies Studio.
The production will be by Miscreants (in association
with Unlimited Theatre, Leeds) and will be followed by
an analytical panel, including a questions and answers
session with the director and company.
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Speakers to date Include:
Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse)
Kate Chedgzoy (Warwick)
Mark Dooley (Teesside)
Richard Dutton (Lancaster)
Alison Findlay (Lancaster)
James Knowles (Stirling)
Kate McLuskie (Southampton)
Clare McManus (Queen’s, Belfast)
Marion O’Connor (Kent at Canterbury)
Simon Shepherd (Goldsmith’s, London)
Susanne L. Wofford (Wisconsin-Madison)
ABSTRACTS for additional papers of no more than 30
minutes which address one or more of the above
criteria and which DO NOT EXCEED ONE SIDE of US letter
or A4 paper should be sent to:
Christian M Billing
School of Theatre Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
UNITED KINGDOM
*** We regret that no electronic submissions will be
considered ***
All abstracts must include full postal and e-mail
addresses for the sender.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: December 1st, 1999,
Additional selected speakers will be notified by the
end of January 2000.
For more and regularly updated information please
visit our conference website at:
http://www.theatron.co.uk/spidersweb
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Kissing Spiders
Joint School of Theatre Studies
University of Warwick CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
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