UPDATE: Renaissance Siblings (9/25; RSA, 3/29/01-3/31/01)

From: Cristina Alfar (calfar@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 13:34:50 EDT

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    Due to a participant's having to withdraw from the following panel, I am
    resubmitting this call with the hope of finding a new panelist. Please
    email one page abstracts to calfar@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu asap, but no
    later than Monday Sept. 25, 2000.

    "'Keen whips I'ld wear as rubies': Surviving Siblings in
    the English Renaissance Drama."

    The purpose of this panel is to interrogate the disenfranchised depiction
    of daughters/sisters as represented by Shakespeare and his contemporaries
    in Early Modern dramas. Specifically, I am interested in analyses of
    exploited sisters who, with no parents around, fall prey to the whims of
    their male siblings (for example: Claudio and Isabella in Measure for
    Measure; Annabella in Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore) or who, if a parent
    is alive, must survive unfair treatment because they are not the preferred
    daughter (Katherine in Taming of the Shrew).

    _____________________________________
    Professor Cristina León Alfar
    Department of English
    Hunter College, CUNY
    695 Park Ave
    New York NY 10021

    phone: (212) 772-5187
    email: calfar@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
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