Séance organisée par : Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
Lieu: Maison de la recherche Sorbonne nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais (75005), salle du conseil + Zoom (ask our secretary, Mathilde Alazraki, for the link: mathilde.alazraki@hotmail.fr)
Séance organisée par : Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
Lieu: Maison de la recherche Sorbonne nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais (75005), salle du conseil + Zoom (ask our secretary, Mathilde Alazraki, for the link: mathilde.alazraki@hotmail.fr)
Séance conjointe PEMS / ShakeS (Shakespeare en Sorbonne), organisée par : Sorbonne Université
Lieu: Maison de la recherche de Sorbonne, rue Serpente (75006), salle D 323. Also on Zoom – please write to our secretary for the link: mathilde.alazraki@hotmail.fr )
“Early Modern Stage Directions and the Encoded Playbook: Text or Markup?”
How we encode, render, and count stage directions in a digital edition depends on the relationship between stage directions and the rest of the text. Are stage directions paratexts or are they part of the text of the playbook? What information do we need to capture when we encode stage directions? Where and how should we display them in our digital interface? And how should we number them in order to make them linkable and citable? This paper begins by showing the shifting placement of stage directions relative to the text block in the period 1500 to 1700 and briefly summarizing the recent burst of scholarship on stage directions, their purpose, authorship, and intended user. Then the paper turns to the challenge of encoding stage directions in the XML markup language of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and reflects on the applicability of the <stage> element specification to early modern drama. Finally, the paper turns to how the Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO) project proposes to handle the rendering and numbering of stage directions both in our digital editions and in the LEMDO Hornbooks print-on-demand series. (This paper draws on research jointly conducted with Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award student Mahayla Galliford.)
Janelle Jenstad is Professor of English at University of Victoria. She directs The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) and Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO), and co-coordinates The New Internet Shakespeare Editions (NISE) and Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE). With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). With Kaethler, she is co-general editing the MoEML Mayoral Shows Anthology (MoMS). She is editing in particular John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 and 1633 texts) for MoEML; The Merchant of Venice with Stephen Wittek for the NISE; and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, Scholarly Editing, and Digital Studies/Champs Numeriques. Chapters appear in Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge).
Séance organisée par : Université Versailles St Quentin (Paris Saclay)
Lieu : Sorbonne Université, rue de la Sorbonne (75005), salle F671 (free – if you are planning to attend please send a message to our secretary, Mathilde Alazraki, by 8 March: mathilde.alazraki@hotmail.fr)
+ Zoom (free – to receive the link, please fill in the registration form by 8 March: https://forms.gle/kAwQTV7cDgbtbFFr9)
There is still a widespread belief that towards the end of his career Shakespeare turned away from radical experiments with character (especially what is often called “inwardness”), adjusting his methods to privilege instead plot, action, and—as Anne Barton put it forty years ago—“the impersonal quality of a moment of dramatic time.” In this talk, I want to offer a reading of The Winter’s Tale (c. 1610) that puts a new spin on the debate about the place of character in “late” Shakespeare, exploring the play’s role in the treatment of Shakespeare the author as a character in literary history. Focusing on notions of reproduction and retrospection, I suggest that the tragi-comedy is central to the historical and enduring characterisation of Shakespeare as an immortal father of literature whose “dead likeness”—in Paulina’s phrase, describing Hermione’s statue—can be found in his plays. Most significantly, The Winter’s Tale shaped the bookish staging of Shakespeare as a deceased author (“the late” Shakespeare) in the influential opening leaves of the volume whose 400th anniversary we are celebrating this year, the First Folio of 1623.
Harry Newman is a senior lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He works on theatre and book history, gender and sexuality, and the history of medicine and technology. His first monograph, Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama, was published by Routledge in 2019, and he has edited special journal issues on “Metatheatre and Early Modern Drama” for Shakespeare Bulletin (vol. 36, no. 1, 2018; co-edited with Sarah Dustagheer) and on “Character Beyond Shakespeare” for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (vol. 21, no. 2, 2021). He is currently working on an alternative history of character in early modernity, and writing the introduction to the next Oxford World Classics edition of The Winter’s Tale.
Séance organisée par : Université Paris Nanterre
Lieu : Sorbonne Université, rue de la Sorbonne (75005), salle F671 (free – if you are planning to attend please send a message to our secretary, Mathilde Alazraki, by 8 February: mathilde.alazraki@hotmail.fr)
+ Zoom (free – to receive the link, please fill in the registration form by 8 February: https://forms.gle/CKrifuHPk3S5NXvG8)
My work on Anglo-Spanish cultural and political relations began with doctoral research and eventually a monograph on the marriage of Mary I and Philip II, followed by a fellowship studying cultural and intellectual exchanges. That it comes as a surprise to many people that England had a Spanish king in the mid-Tudor period and was ruled by the same monarch who thirty years later would attempt an invasion of the country with his Gran Armada is a telling reflection of how marginal and peripheral Spain and its culture have been in accounts of both the literary history and historiography of early modern England. Habsburg Spain’s hegemony in Europe in this period was not without fruit in the realms of art, literature, and culture. Multidirectional, many-layered, multi-dimensional contacts, encounters, and exchanges, through translation, peace and war, sharing and appropriating technology and material practices, produced a complex web of dynamic, shaping and determining influences. Transnational, connected, and global history approaches have complicated and undermined literary histories rooted in communities that had yet to come into being and languages whose identification with culture was merely emergent. In this presentation, I propose to present some early results from my work producing a new synthesis about England and Spain in the early modern period, which recognises that while often disavowed Hispanic worlds were nevertheless key to the emergence of many aspects of English Renaissance Culture.
Alexander Samson is Professor of Early Modern Studies in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. His research interests encompass the early colonial history of the Americas, Anglo-Spanish intercultural interactions and early modern English and Spanish drama. He has edited volumes on The Spanish Match: Prince Charles’s Journey to Madrid, 1623 (Ashgate, 2006), A Companion to Lope de Vega (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008) with Jonathan Thacker, Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance, a monographic Special Issue of Renaisance Studies (2012), and Philip IV and the World of Spain’s Rey Planeta (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming) with Stephen Hart. He has published articles and book chapters on everything from historiography and royal chroniclers in 16th century Spain to English travel writers, firearms, maps, John Fletcher, Cervantes, female Golden Age dramatists and historical fiction. His book Mary and Philip: the Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain was published by Manchester University Press in 2020. He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled Hispanic Worlds in English Renaissance Culture, as well as editions of Lope de Vega’s Lo fingido verdadero and James Mabbe’s Exemplary Novels. He runs the Golden Age and Renaissance Research Seminar and directs UCL’s Centre for Early Modern Exchanges and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.
Heidi Brayman (UCR), Soundproof: Deafness, Muteness, and Alterabilities in Early Modern England
Maison de la recherche Sorbonne nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais (75005), salle du conseil (5.30pm-7pm)
Also via Zoom (ask our secretary for link)
A religious, legal, and literary history of deafness and muteness, Soundproof considers a range of vocal silences and alternative modes of communication in early modern England, exploring the status and meaning of deafness and muteness as disability, practice, ploy, and convention in households, theaters, abbeys, and courts of law. The project engages the deeply complicated forms of representing disability in the early modern period – the moment, for example, when the assumption that the congenitally deaf are inevitably mute was at last called into question. As the pun in the title suggests, the book is also concerned with issues of evidence and proof, and it seeks to make a methodological and theoretical intervention into our understanding of historical and literary standards of evidence and argument.
Heidi Brayman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her first monograph, Reading Material, is a study of print, gender and literacy in early modern England; she has also co-edited three volumes, Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800; Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives; and Books in History, Books as History: New Intersections of the Material Text. A former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America, she turns in her current book project to a more explicit engagement with English theatrical practice and performance, along with religious history, devotional lyric, and critical disability studies.
Books published by PEMS members in 2022 will be presented:
https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503598147-1
The volume focuses on the role of translation and lexical borrowing in the expansion of specific English lexicons (erudite, technical, or artisanal) as evidenced in printed texts from the early modern period. It considers how language shapes identity in social, religious, philosophical, artistic and literary contexts, and is in turn shaped by claims of social, religious, philosophical, artistic and literary identity.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526164094/
This collection explores connections between the full range of the Herbert brothers’ writings and activities, despite the apparent differences both in what they wrote and in how they lived their lives. More specifically, the volume demonstrates that despite these differences, each conceived of their extended republic of letters as militating against a violent and exclusive catholicity; theirs was a communion in which contention (or disputation) served to develop more dynamic forms of comprehensiveness. The literary, philosophical and musical production of the Herbert brothers appears here in its full European context, connected as they were with the Sidney clan and its investment in international Protestantism.
Séance organisée par l’université Paris Cité (LARCA)
17h30-19h (Paris time)
Lieu: Maison de la recherche Sorbonne Université, 28 rue Serpente (75006), amphi Molinié, D035 / also via Zoom: please write to our secretary, Mathilde Alazraki, for the link (mathilde.alazraki@hotmail.fr)
In 1587 Noël Taillepied, a Franciscan friar, undertakes to write a treatise about apparitions, which he chooses to entitle Psichologie in order to rehabilitate the belief in purgatory, and consequently in the return of the souls of the deceased against the growing reformed heresy that reduces all apparitions to angels or devils and claims that miracles have ceased. But the book seems to have been published in a hurry and its publication coincides with the peak in the activity of the Holy League in Paris. Beyond mere curiosity of discovering yet another early modern treatise on the supernatural, editing Psichologie aims at unravelling Taillepied’s plagiarising techniques, his close interactions with the Parisian printers, and his possible implication in the League militancy.
Pierre Kapitaniak is professor of Early Modern British Civilisation at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. He works on Elizabethan drama as well as on the conception, perception and representation of supernatural phenomena from the 16th to the 18th century. He published Spectres, Ombres et fantômes : Discours et représentations dramatiques en Angleterre (Honoré Champion, 2008), and co-edited Fictions du diable : démonologie et littérature (Droz, 2007). He translated into French and edited Thomas Middleton’s play The Witch/ La sorcière (Classiques Garnier, 2012). He is also engaged with Jean Migrenne in a long-term project of translating early modern demonological treatises, and has already published James VI’s Démonologie (Jérôme Millon, 2010) and Reginald Scot’s La sorcellerie démystifiée (Millon, 2015). He is currently preparing the edition of Noël Taillepied’s Psichologie (1588).
Le programme des activités de PEMS pour 2022-2023 est disponible ici: https://pems.hypotheses.org/programme-schedule
Click ↑ on the link above ↑ for the 2022-2023 schedule of activities
Matinée : doctorants
9h30-9h45 : présentation des intervenants
9h45-10h45 : présentations des futurs doctorants sur leur projet de recherche
9h45-10h : Alice de Nanteuil (dir. Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Rouen Normandie)
10h-10h10 : questions
10h10-10h25 : Louise Roszak (dir. Ladan Niayesh, Paris Cité)
10h25-10h35 : questions
10h35-10h50 : Johann Paccou (dir. Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Sorbonne Nouvelle)
10h50-11h : questions
11h-11h10 : pause
11h10-12h30 : ateliers pour les doctorants
11h10-11h30 : présentation de Manon Turban (Paris Cité) sur la fin de thèse
11h30-11h50 : questions
11h50-12h10 : présentation de Louise McCarthy (Paris Cité) et Emma Bartel (Sorbonne) sur l’organisation de colloques internationaux
Vendredi 10 juin 2022, 17h30-19h
Christine Sukic et Elen Riot (Reims) – Translating Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris
Discutante : Laetitia Sansonetti (Université Paris Nanterre)
En présentiel, Salle D. 116, Maison de la recherche, Sorbonne Université
We are pleased to invite you to the fifth session of the Paris Early Modern Seminar (PEMS) for 2022, which will be held both in person and online on May 13, 2022 from 5.30 to 7pm (Paris time). We will meet in Room D116, Maison de la Recherche Sorbonne Université, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris. The session will also be streamed via Zoom.
“Burbage’s bereavements and the performance of apocalypse”
Tanya Pollard
The end of the world loomed large in early seventeenth-century London theaters. “Is this the promised end?,” Kent wonders in the final moments of King Lear (c.1606). In Shakespeare and Middleton’s Timon of Athens (c.1606), Timon uses his last words to announce, “Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.” After “all the works / Are flown in fumo” in Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610), Sir Mammon Epicure announces “I will go mount a turnip cart and preach / The end o’the world within these two months.” Contrary to predictions, life continues in these plays – Albany steps up to rule England, Alcibiades goes to battle under Timon’s name, and Lovewit enjoys a new wife and wealth won by others – but in each the disappearance of a larger-than-life figure spurs self-conscious reflections on catastrophe. Although these plays span different authors and genres, they share a playing company – the King’s Men – and each features a misanthropic central figure embodied by leading actor Richard Burbage. The centrality of extinction-fears in these chronologically close plays raises questions about the possible significance of these other shared elements. Through tracing Burbage’s life, career, and position in the King’s Men at this time, this paper explores what he might have contributed to these plays’ interest in apocalyptic endings.
Tanya Pollard is Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages (2017), Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England (2005), two edited anthologies of primary texts, and three co-edited collections of essays. She is Chair of the Council of Scholars at Theater for a New Audience, and works with other New York theater companies, including recently as consultant on The Wonder of Women (Red Bull, 2022), The Alchemist (Red Bull, 2021), and Kiss Me Kate (Roundabout, 2019). She is currently editing Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist for Arden Early Modern Drama, and writing on actors and their roles in shaping Shakespeare’s plays.
Respondent : Charlotte Coffin
Vendredi 22 avril 2022, 17h30-19h
Florence March (IRCL, Montpellier 3 Paul-Valéry) – Le Songe d’une nuit d’été : de l’Oflag IV D aux stages de réalisation théâtrale d’André Crocq, parcours archivistique
Discutante : Louise Fang (Sorbonne Paris Nord)
En présentiel et par zoom (lien habituel)
We are pleased to invite you to the third session of the Paris Early Modern Seminar (PEMS) for 2022, which will be held both in person and online on March 25, 2022 from 5.30 to 7pm (Paris time). We will meet in Room D116, Maison de la Recherche Sorbonne Université, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris.
The session will also be streamed via Zoom .
Daniel Starza Smith (KCL) & Leah Veronese (Balliol College, Oxford)
Reading the Letters of Elizabeth Bourne (1549-1599)
Respondents: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise & Aurélie Griffin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Daniel Starza Smith is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (1500–1700) at King’s College London, having previously held roles at University College London, the University of Reading, and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow. His books include John Donne and the Conway Papers (Oxford University Press, 2014) and, edited with Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014). His recent articles investigate the anonymous Melbourne Manuscript and a newly discovered manuscript of John Donne’s Catalogus Librorum. With Jana Dambrogio he is co-director of the Unlocking History research group, researching letterlocking.
Leah Veronese is undertaking her AHRC-funded DPhil in the rhetoric of early modern petition at Balliol College, Oxford. She has worked as a research intern at Lambeth Palace Library and as a research assistant for the Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne and Gateway to Early Modern Manuscripts projects.
Abstract
The virtually unknown writings of Elizabeth Bourne (née Horne, c.1549–99) present remarkable but frustratingly opaque opportunities to explore the creative interior life of an Elizabethan woman – albeit one in extraordinary circumstances. Subject to severe domestic violence from her husband, Bourne fought for her rights, escaped the family home, and found a source of protection in a legal guardian, Sir John Conway – with whom she then fell in love and conducted a clandestine affair. Her letters and other writings record her grief, desires, and ingenuity in ways that seem strikingly immediate. In her remarkable correspondence with Conway, which included the exchange of books and poetry, Bourne’s letters pick up tropes of literary forms including romance, dream visions, Latin translation, coded sexual fantasy, and even kinds of intelligence activity. Bursts of verse, including epigrammatically riddling pseudonymous signatures, stud her prose, and she repeatedly plays with the language and imagery of Conway’s own letters to her. Forced from her home into hiding and finding herself in the midst of an adulterous affair, Bourne used her letters to craft a literary space within which she could finally imagine passion, peace, and happiness. Those letters were themselves subject to misogynistic archival violence in the nineteenth century and come down to us almost by accident: they were labelled as being ‘of no importance’ and almost burned. This paper will set out the unique literary achievements they preserve for the first time.
We are pleased to invite you to the first session of the Paris Early Modern Seminar (PEMS) for 2022, which will be held online on January 28, 2022 from 5.30 to 7pm (Paris time), via Zoom.
Stephanie Elsky (Rhodes College)
“Forgetting Custom? Rebellion in The Book of Sir Thomas More“
Discutante : Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Université)
Via Zoom – séance commune à PEMS et au séminaire ShakeS
Bio: Stephanie Elsky is Associate Professor of English at Rhodes College. Her first book, entitled Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature was published by Oxford University Press in their Law and Literature Series in 2020. She has published articles in numerous journals, including English Literary Renaissance and Spenser Studies, and edited collections. Elsky has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Volkswagen Foundation, among others. She is currently working on a second project on women writers, law, and objects.
Abstract: This talk will offer a brief overview of my book Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature, which argues that the legal concept of custom, central to English common law, was an unexpectedly generative and productive force for English Renaissance literature. I will then turn to The Book of Sir Thomas More, a play that Shakespeare is generally thought to have revised after its censorship and analyze its depiction of custom’s most extreme political usage: to resist a monarch. Just as custom was invoked to justify popular rebellions during the sixteenth century, so too is it called upon to navigate their contentious staging in Sir Thomas More. The play, I argue, makes use of a customary form of language, proverbs, to recuperate both the May Day rebellion and Thomas More’s silence on the Oath of Supremacy from the damning charge of innovation, to enfold them into time’s continuous flow, and to render its participants members of a political commons. The play thus illustrates custom’s complex dramatic and political charge.
Wishing you all the very best for the new year ahead,
Dear all, As a reminder, the first session of the Paris Early Modern Seminar (PEMS) for 2021-2 will be held online on October 22, 2021 from 5.30 to 7pm (Paris time), via Zoom.
Lauren Working (York) and Emily Stevenson (Oxford), ERC-TIDE project‘ From Middle Temple to Manoa: Global Networks at the Early Modern Inns of Court’
This session will be devoted to a presentation of the exhibition curated by the two speakers at the Middle Temple Library, 13 Sep – 31 Dec 2021: https://www.middletemple.org.uk/library. This exhibition links global networks of trade and exploration to Elizabethan and Jacobean social and literary networks at the Middle Temple. According to Walter Ralegh, who was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1575, ‘Manoa’ was the Indigenous name for what the Spanish called ‘El Dorado’, a fabled city of gold that Ralegh travelled in search of in 1617. The demand for commodities and knowledge about the world that emerged from European trade and exploration in the sixteenth century quickly became part of the social milieu of the Inns. Gentlemen commissioned globes that charted recent voyages. They celebrated Francis Drake’s return from his raids on the Spanish West Indies, and collected parts of the Golden Hind, the ship Drake captained when he circumnavigated the globe. Sugar, tobacco, spices, feathers, and pearls were increasingly used to celebrate imperial intervention abroad and to fuel sociability at home. While Elizabethans hoped colonization might usher ‘a golden world in this iron age’, whose golden age was it? The access to, and consumption of, global goods often relied on the mass exploitation of human lives and natural resources in other parts of the world. This exhibition encourages visitors to think about the influence of global interests on the social lives and self-fashioning of Inns gentlemen, but also to consider the geopolitics of production and exploitation that became ingrained in elite notions of civil refinement.
Biography
Lauren Working is a postdoctoral researcher on the TIDE project (Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, 1550 – 1700) at Oxford, and a lecturer at the University of York. Her research explores how English colonial projects in places ranging from Venezuela to Virginia influenced life in Tudor and Stuart London. Her first book, The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.
Emily Stevenson is a postdoctoral research assistant on the TIDE project at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research examined the contextual communities and networks which surrounded Richard Hakluyt and his Principal Navigations, using a combination of social network mapping, literary and historical analysis. She is currently working on research examining the role of women as mercantile agents in sixteenth-century England.
Respondent: Ladan Niayesh (Université de Paris)