The annual Shakespeare Centre London’s postgraduate conference, hosted by both King’s College London and Shakespeare's Globe, takes place 10-11 May. With Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki, Professor Tiffany Stern and Rob Myles as plenaries, the event promises to be a fascinating meeting of scholarly interests and academic disciplines, exploring what the term ‘innovation’ means to our understanding of the early modern today.

Panels range from ‘Shakespeare’s Globe, Augmented Reality, and Actor Training’, to ‘Re-casting Shakespeare: Modes of Casting as Adaption’ and ‘Burnt and Broken Bodies: The Performance of Female Martyrdom in Early Modern England’. There promises to be something for every research interest, and we look forward to welcoming presenters from all over Europe – from the University of Sorbonne, University of Zurich and Long Island University.

There are just a few non-presenting/auditor tickets remaining. At just £15, these tickets offer access to two days’ worth of panels, a tour of the Globe, a lunch, various teas and coffees and a wine reception. If you would like to snap up the last few tickets available, please sign-up here.

Programme

10 May 2024 - King’s College London

10.00-10.30 Welcome Address and Conference Guidelines (Lucy Munro, King’s College London)

10.30-11.30 Plenary Session 1 – Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of Warwick) (Chair: Hannah Crawforth, King’s College London)

11.45-13.00 Panel 1 – Innovative Shakespeare: Exploring Modern Interpretations and Interactive Narratives (Chair: John Lavagnino, King’s College London)

• Grace Mold (University of Sheffield): Re-casting Shakespeare: Modes of Casting as Adaptation (15 minutes)
• Gemma Kate Allred (Université de Neuchâtel): ‘For never was a story brighter yet / Than this of Romeo and his Juliet’: Illusions of Autonomy in Creation Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet (15 minutes)
• Benjamin Y Goff (King’s College London): All the World’s a Screen: Shakespeare, Skepticism, and Cinema (15 minutes)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.15 Panel 2 – Reimagining Gender and Racial Identities in Early Modern Drama (Chair: Emily Rowe, King’s College London)

• Mel Harrison (King’s College London): Burnt and Broken Bodies: The Performance of Female Martyrdom in Early Modern England (15 minutes)
• Kameron Johnson (Sorbonne Université): Reading Transgender Characters in Early Modern Drama (15 minutes)
• Macy Quigg (King’s College London): ‘Not Amurath’ and Amurath: Foils and Racialized Performance in Henry V and The Courageous Turk (15 minutes)

15.30-16.30 Panel 3 – Navigating Early Modern Urban Spaces: Perspectives from Drama, Migration, and Digital Mapping (Chair: Daniel Smith, King’s College London)

• Ann-Sophie Bosshard (University of Zurich): Early Modern Travelscapes (15 minutes)
• Laura Romain (University of Kent): Changing Cityscapes and Theatre: Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris (15 minutes)
• Luke James Farrell (University of Kent): Mapping Elizabethan Canterbury: Applying Spatio-temporal Machine (5 minutes)

16.45-17.45 Plenary Session 2 – Professor Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) (Chair: Gordon McMullan, King’s College London)

17.45-19.00 Wine reception

19.00-20.00 Dinner (Optional and self-funded)

11 May 2024 - Shakespeare’s Globe

10.00-10.15 Morning Coffee

10.15-11.15 Plenary Session 3 – Rob Myles (Actor-Writer-Director) (Chair: Jonathan Powell, Leiden University)

11.30-13.00 Panel 4 – Innovative Approaches to Theatrical Performance and Actor Training (Chair: Hanh Bui, Shakespeare’s Globe)

• Valerie Clayman Pye (Long Island University): ‘Exceeding Fantastical’: Shakespeare’s Globe, Augmented Reality, and Actor Training (15 minutes)
• Hannah Wilson (King’s College London): ‘He danceth both man and womans actions’: Virtuosic Skill, Actor Training and Casting Practices in Richard Brome’s The Court Beggar (15 minutes)
• Georgina Crespi (University of Reading): Innovation of the Seven Deadly Sins in The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (15 minutes)
• Niamh Dolly Fitzpatrick (University of Worcester): ‘For ambition, turn a Villain, and betray my friend?’: Innovation, Neoclassicism, and Villainy in Frances Boothby’s Marcelia, or the Treacherous Friend (1669)

13.00-14.00 Lunch (self-funded)

14.00-15.20 Panel 5 – Revolutionising Early Modern Literature: Rhetoric, Verse, and Alchemy (Chair: Eli Cumings, King’s College London)

• Avi Mendelson (Independent Scholar): ‘Lie with her, Lie on her’: Inventive Rhetoric and the Transmission of Epileptic Madness in Othello (15 minutes)
• Meredith Kerr (King’s College London): Harnessing the Power & Violence of Words: Invective in Shakespeare & Euripides (15 minutes)
• Emily C. A. Snyder (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham): Innovating Iambic Pentameter: The Gains and Losses of Standardizing Verse Drama (15
  minutes)
• Laurence Chen (University College London): Innovative Alchemy and Literary Style in the Prose Writings of Thomas Vaughan (5 minutes)

15.30-16.45 Panel 6 – Navigating Early Modern Print Culture: Social Interactions, Economic Realities, and Cultural Impact (Chair: Will Tosh, Shakespeare’s Globe)

• Michelle Michel (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham): Book Pirates: Villains or victims? (15 minutes)
• Ayako Hisanaka (Keio University, King’s College London): The Intellectual Legal Culture of Tottel’s Miscellany: The Network between Richard Tottel and the Inner Temple Circle (15 minutes)
• Emily Saunders (King’s College London): ‘Look not on his picture, but his book’: The Illusory Power of Frontispiece Author Portraits (15 minutes)

16.45-17.15 Guided Tour 1

17.15-17.45 Guided Tour 2

17.45-18.00 Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks (Will Tosh, Shakespeare’s Globe and Jamima Matthews, King’s College London)