20TH INTERNATIONAL SEDERI CONFERENCE

Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies

University of Valencia
22-24 April 2009

Programme

25/3/09 1:21 PM

Wednesday, April 22th

Reception Desk (1st Floor)

Opening Session

PLENARY LECTURE Chair: Francisco Fernández

"Shooting first": War and Peace in English Utopias of the Renaissance. (A 21st Century Reading).

"Ruminated, Plotted and Set Down": Three Kinds of Written Plot in The Early Modern Theatre.

Reception

English Multilingual Lexicography in the 16th and 17th Centuries.

What's in a Variorum? Exploring Linguistic Information
in a Variorum Edition of Richard II (or Troilus and Cressida).

Past Narratives/Present Meanings?:
Julius Caesar by Teatro da Cornucópia.

Ophelia at Margins: the Recovery of the Body.

Visus et expurgatus:
the Impact of the Spanish Inquisition on an English library.

Performing the Peace, 1603-5.

Thursday, April 23rd

Building the Myth of a Romantic Hamlet in Spain.

Shakespeare's Sonnets in Spanish:
Rescuing the Early Verse Translations.

Ludwig Tieck's Herr von Fuchs (1793) as the Perfect Embodiment of Romantic Irony.

The Pageant of History: Nostalgia, the Tudors and the Community Play.

Fracted and Corroborate: The Kingship of Shakespeare's Henry V.

"Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/ She has deceived her father, and may thee." Do Defrauding Daughters Turn Deviant Wives?

A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Shakespeare's Phraseological Language: Some Applications (and Some Complications) (Part 1)

A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Shakespeare's Phraseological Language: Some Applications (and Some Complications) (Part 2)

Shakespeare's Sonnets 21 in the Light of George Herbert's “Jordan (II)”: Seventeenth-Century Evidence for an Alternative Reading.

“Black sparkling eyes”: Henry Constable's Praise of Penelope Rich.

Conference Dinner

Friday, April 24th

The Three London Jilts of the Restoration.

Who Wrote The Life of Mother Shipton and Who Did it First? A Comparison of Richard Head's The Life and Death of Mother Shipton (1677) and Thomas Thompson's The Life of Mother Shipton (1668?).

"[M]y wife shall make me no cuckold": Comic Masculine Anxiety in Elizabeth Polwhele's The Frolicks (1671) and William Wycherley's The Country Wife (1675).

Seventy Years of Shakespearean Productions in Spain, 1939-2008.

Appropriating Shakespeare in Franco’s Times:
a Sure Bet for Commercial Theatre Companies.

Spain's 'National' Shakespeares. A Comparative Approach.

"To be ever one":
Sexual/Textual Proximities in Early English Drama in Print.

Murdering Othello: Valentin, In Othello, Stage Beauty.

“The fowl was foul …the Fair was fair”:
Billy Morrissette’s Reinvention of Macbeth.

Phallic Women and Unmanly Kings: History and Scandal in The Fatal Discovery.

Educating the Female Mind: Female Sense and “Folly” in Mary Pix's The Innocent Mistress (1697).

Gendering the Restoration Prologue.

An-Other Narrative in the The Tempest. The Muted Voice of Sycorax and Its Contemporary Legacy.

Spaces of Patronage: The Enchanted Island and Prospero's Books.

"As Osment likes it": Blackness, Homosexuality and the Politics of the Age in This Island's Mine.

Sites of Memory, Sites of Conflict: Early Modern England and WWI.

Serializing Elizabeth: The Tilbury Speech and the Myth of Elizabeth Revised in The Virgin Queen (BBC, 2005) and Elizabeth I (Channel 4, 2005).

The Vice's Broom:
Creating the Empty Space in Early-Modern English Drama.

Self-recognition in Shakespeare's Late Romances:
The Tempest, The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline.

“To be or not to be Shakespeare”:
Robert Reece and Victorian Classical Burlesque.

Ryan J-W Smith's Sweet Love Adieu: The Return of the Bard.

The Courier's Tragedy,
a Mock Revenge Tragedy in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.

The Case for Prophecy: Politics, Gender and Self-representation in 17th century Prophetic Genres.