CFP: A prospective panel for The Renaissance Society of America Conference in
New York City, 3/25/04-3/27/04
Children in Renaissance Drama
The figure of the pre-adolescent child in the Renaissance has long been a
point of contention for social historians, but much less attention has
been paid to the child as a literary device or phenomenon. For social
historians, the debate over early modern representations of children and
childhood has been largely a debate over the interpretation of artistic,
autobiographical and literary evidence. This prospective panel hopes to
turn the interpretive mind towards renaissance drama and ask not "What do
representations of children in early modern drama, as evidence, say about
early modern childhood?" but "What do representations of children in early
modern drama say about the genre itself?"
Possible topics could include:
*Boys' Company plays
*Satire and the child
*Children as props
*Children as messengers
*The voice of the child
*Tragedy and the child
*Abandonded children
Please send a 150-word abstract and a brief c.v. by May 20th to
Marie Rutkoski
rutkoski@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Department of English
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