Hoccleve at Play

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Hoccleve Society

Organizer Name

Danielle Bradley

Organizer Affiliation

Rutgers Univ.

Presider Name

Elon Lang

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Texas-Austin

Paper Title 1

Does This Stress Make Me Look Fat? Awkwardness in Thomas Hoccleve's Verse

Presenter 1 Name

David Watt

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Manitoba

Paper Title 2

Funny Money in Hoccleve's Begging Poems

Presenter 2 Name

Taylor Cowdery

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Paper Title 3

Play Wor(l)ds: Form, Style, Play at Work in the Ballades of Good Company

Presenter 3 Name

Travis Neel

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Paper Title 4

Hoccleve Ludens: Playing With De ludo scaccorum in the Regiment of Princes

Presenter 4 Name

Amanda Walling

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Hartford

Start Date

13-5-2017 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1265

Description

Presenters will be challenging the typical strategy of Hoccleve scholarship which investigates the sad, the depressed, and the imitative aspects of Thomas Hoccleve's poetry; instead they will explore how this poet innovates poetic form and incorporates jocular and playful subject matter. Signed, Danielle Bradley.