Date/Time
Date(s) - 1 Dec 2011 until 2 Dec 2011
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Rutgers University
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Early Modern Theatricality in the 21st Century brings leading scholars to Rutgers for a summit on the state of the field, inviting them to
test out new methods for capturing the full event of theatre and its immense imaginative resources. Panelists will examine the clusters of
techniques, objects, bodies, conventions, signs, and other significant elements that characterized early modern performance and that extended beyond the public theaters to public entertainments and spectacles of all types, from the Tudor period to the Restoration. Organized in
plenary roundtable format with generous time for collective discussion, the conference will present an exploded view of theatricality across a broad period, isolating functional parts, magnifying them for analysis, and integrating them into rigorous, conceptually adventurous statements that aim to provoke a re-discovery of early modern drama in all its formal complexity and wild profusion.
Attendance is free and open to the public. Thursday reception and dinner at the CCA requires advance RSVP by November 15, 2011 to
[email protected]. Sponsored by the Rutgers British Studies Center and the Program in Early Modern Studies at the Center for
Cultural Analysis. For more information, visit here.