Medieval English Theatre Meeting 25 March 2006: Bretton Hall, University of Leeds

The Classical

Programme

09.30 Registration and Welcome.
10.00 Coffee.
10.30
Alan Hood (Edinburgh) : Classical and medieval (Latin) drama: a case for disjunction’.
11.00 Jodi-Anne George (Dundee) : will lead a seminar on Horestes
11.45
Peter Happé (Southampton) : ‘“The Restless Mind that would never raging leave”: Jasper Heywood’s Thyestes
12.15
Arjan van Dixhoorn : ‘Rhetoric in Action. Rhetoric and the Practice of Rhetorician Life in the Burgundian-Hapsburg Netherlands’.
13.00 LUNCH
14.00
Anke van Herk (Amsterdam) : ‘Poetry and fable, the staging of Ovidian myth in the Low Countries (1475-1625)’
14.30
Frances Foster (UEA) : ‘The Classical and Epic Past in Mediaeval Royal Entries’
15.00
Michael Lynch (Edinburgh) : ‘Visual displays of classical rhetoric in Scotland, 1500-1625’.
15.30 Tea and Annual Medieval English Theatre Business Meeting, including announcements, reports, projects, plans, the topic and location of the next conference.
By 17.00 Close of Conference.

This is the planned programme, but it is subject to any necessary adjustments.
As usual, papers will last about 20-25 minutes and the remaining minutes of each slot will be used for questions.

JJMcG 20 March 2006

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