History and Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

Organizer Name

Kristin Bezio

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Richmond

Presider Name

Kristin Bezio

Paper Title 1

Joan of Arc on the Medieval and Early Modern Stage: The Anonymous Le mistère du siège d’Orlèans and Shakespeare's Henry VI Part I

Presenter 1 Name

James H. Forse

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Bowling Green State Univ.

Paper Title 2

"French Rapiers and Poniards, with Their Assigns, as Girdle, Hangers, and So": Reading Ornamentation in Hamlet for the Dramatization of Desire in Print

Presenter 2 Name

Jeffery Moser

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Northern Colorado/Aims Community College

Paper Title 3

"I have not deserved this": Early Modern Social Conversations of Domestic Violence Reflected in Theater

Presenter 3 Name

Sarah Fairbanks-Loose

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of New Mexico

Start Date

9-5-2019 10:00 AM

Session Location

Sangren 1320

Description

This panel examines the intersection of the historical and dramatic during the Tudor and Stuart periods, drawing upon histories and legends rooted in medieval tradition. The session papers examine plays by William Shakespeare (1 Henry VI, Hamlet, Othello) and John Webster (The White Devil), drawing, as well, upon earlier and contemporary dramatic influences, social and legal debates, and contemporaneous understandings of desire and identity to discuss the ways in which the drama of the period sought to construct and reconstruct understandings of identity and selfhood relative to the past. Kristin M.S. Bezio