Renaissance Reincarnations

Registration

To attend this conference please email the conference organisers: Dr Varsha Panjwani and Dr Chloe Preedy, at: renaissance.reincarnations@gmail.com, by WEDNESDAY 29th FEBRUARY.
Lunch, tea and coffee will be provided but a modest sum of £7 will be payable by cash on the day to cover expenses. 
Details of travel and venue can be found at: http://www.york.ac.uk/np/maps/

William Shakespeare – a lonely nobody furiously writing away in his garret, or an actor with a penchant for kingly parts? Elizabeth I - a jolly monarch with a partiality for sweets and a fondness for comedies involving dogs, or a cunning strategist thwarting the plans of her dangerous rivals? Philip Henslowe - enterprising money-lender or creative producer?

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we remain fascinated with Renaissance lives.  This fascination has given rise to some of the most popular and admired works of fiction and liveliest critical debates of our time. While past studies have discussed Renaissance afterlives in isolation, this conference builds on recent interest in studying the modern representation of the Renaissance period from an interdisciplinary perspective. The aims of the conference are twofold - to map patterns and connections between the afterlives of Renaissance figures from different walks of life by bringing together academics from various disciplines; and to understand the ways in which the cultural stories of Renaissance figures shape our editorial, interpretive, and creative practice.

Download the Programme here: Renaissance Reincarnations Programme (PDF , 78kb)
Download the conference poster here: Renaissance Reincarnations poster (PDF , 3,877kb)Renaissance Reincarnations Programme (PDF , 78kb)

Programme

10.15-10.45	Coffee & Registration
10.45-11.00	Introduction to the Project  - Varsha Panjwani and Chloe Preedy
11.00-11.45	Keynote Speaker: Professor William Sheils	From Stage to Screen, Robert Bolt and Sir Thomas More
11.45-1.15	Panel 1 - Chair: Chloe Preedy	Royalty Reincarnated
	Catherine Fletcher	Rewriting the Divorce of Henry VIII
	Amritesh Singh	Of Bette’s Two Elizabeths: Glorianna’s Reincarnations and the Narrative of an Icon
	Leena Kore Schröder	Waxing Historical: Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth I
1.15-2.15	Lunch
2.15-3.15	Panel 2 - Chair Amritesh Singh	The Reincarnated Courtiers
	JPD Cooper	The Queen's Agent: Remembering the Life of Sir Francis Walsingham
	Victoria Blud	"Sir Walter, really!": Raleigh's Screen Adventures and the Importance of Being Elisabeth's
3.15-4.15	Panel 3 - Chair Varsha Panjwani	The Reincarnated Playwrights
	Sarah Olive	Shakespeare as Icon and Icon-maker in Twenty-first Century British Television
	Hannah Goreing	“My lord, thou know’st I am not political”: Representing Shakespeare for Children
4.15-4.45	Tea/Coffee
4.45-5.30	Keynote Speaker: Professor Martin Butler	Memorandums of the Immortal Ben: Jonson's Twentieth-Century Afterlife
5.30-6.30	Round Table Discussion, led by Varsha Panjwani and Chloe Preedy
6.30-6.45	Closing Remarks