Programme

John Fletcher: A Critical Reappraisal

Provisional Conference Programme*

*Programme may be subject to minor changes

 

Friday 26^th June 2015:

From 08.15 – Registration

08.45 – Welcome – José A. Pérez Díez and Steve Orman

09.00 – Keynote 1 – Professor Sandra Clark – “Some Phases of Fletcher’s Creative Engagement with Shakespeare”

10.00 – Coffee

10.30 – Panel A – Fletcher and Renaissance Theatre 1: Fletcher, Comedy, and Tragedy

• Nicola Boyle (De Montfort University), “The Farcical Nature of Fletcher’s Comedy: A Case Study – The Nightwalkers”
• Christopher Salamone (University of Oxford), “Playing Spirits and the Spirit of Play in Fletcher and Shirley’s The Nightwalkers”
• Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster), “‘Is there no way / To take this Phoenix?’: Repetition and Revenge in Fletcher’s The Tragedy of Valentinian and Cupid’s Revenge”

11.50 – Lunch

13.00 – Panel B – Post-1900 Fletchers

• Vimala C. Pasupathi (Hofstra University), “Digital Fletcher(s)”
• Peter Malin (Independent Scholar), “‘Bum-fiddled with a bastard’: The Chances on the Modern Stage”
• Charles Cathcart (Open University), “Fletcher, Middleton, and the Legacy of Cyrus Hoy’s Attribution Studies”

14.30 – Panel C – Fletcher and Politics

• Eoin Price (Swansea University), “Rebellious Fletcher”
• Astrid Stilma (Canterbury Christ Church University), “Stoicism as a Political Language in Jacobean Drama”

15.45 – Coffee

16.15 – Panel D – Contextualising Fletcher’s World: Family, Queens, and Censorship

• Claire Bartram (Canterbury Christ Church University), “‘Yea, I have a goodly heritage’ (Psalms 16.6): Literary creativity within John Fletcher’s Family”
• Eva Griffith (Independent Scholar, London), “‘Visions of Queens: Shakespeare and Fletcher’s All is True and Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody Part 1”
• Joseph F. Stephenson (Abilene Christian University), “Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt: Dutch Setting, English Meanings”

17.40 – Keynote 2 – Dr Lucy Munro – “Fletcher and his Family: Biographical Criticism and its Discontents”

18.40 – Walk to town.

19.00 – Conference Dinner (Café du Soleil). £30 per head.

Saturday 27^th June 2015:

09.00 – Panel E – Global Fletchers

• José A. Pérez Díez (The Shakespeare Institute), “Revisiting the ‘strange bifronted posture’: a reconsideration of John Fletcher’s Spanish influences”
• Domenico Lovascio (Università degli Studi di Genova), “‘I am ashamed I warred at home, my friends, / When such wealth may be got abroad’: Lust, Luxury and Anti-Imperialism in Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One”

10.30 – Keynote 3 – Professor Clare McManus – “Canonising Fletcher”

11.30 – Coffee

11.50 – Panel F – Fletcher and Renaissance Theatre 2: Staging Ideas and Educating Audiences

• Gabriella Edelstein (The University of Sydney), “The Tamer Taught: Reworking the Educational Practices of The Taming of the Shrew in Fletcher’s The Woman’s Prize”
• Elizabeth Sharrett (Birmingham City University), “Husbands, Wives, Rulers, and Subjects: Exploring Household Government in John Fletcher’s The Woman’s Prize, or The Tamer Tamed”
• Steve Orman (Canterbury Christ Church University), “John Fletcher, Nathan Field, and Youth Culture”
• Malte S. Unterweg (Philipps-Universität Marburg), “Friendship, Love and Marriage: Human Relationships in Selected Plays of John Fletcher”

13.35 – Lunch

14.30 – Keynote 4 – Professor Gordon McMullan – “Unease Revisited”

15.30 – Closing Remarks – José A. Pérez Díez and Steve Orman

15.45 – Walk to St. Mildred’s Church

16.15 – Script-in-hand performance of The Two Noble Kinsmen (in St. Mildred’s Church). With a Q+A afterwards with Professor Lois Potter and director Dr Kate De Rycker

19.00 – Conference ends.