Renaissance Academic Drama and the Popular Stage

A virtual conference hosted by the University of St Andrews
11–12 June 2020
Email [email protected] to register.
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We are now able to share the conference programme with you all!

An impressive array of speakers, as well as two keynote lectures and two 'Performance in Practice' sessions.

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@MuratOgutcu1985 @nppr1 @DrHarrietArcher @elenaspnll @Act1Scene1 Thank you for joining us!

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A special thank you to Neil @nppr1 and Harriet @DrHarrietArcher for supporting us and advising us throughout the organisation process.

If you'd like to follow me @elenaspnll and Jon @Act1Scene1 we would be happy to stay in contact!

Take care and best wishes! #AcaDramaConf

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Thank you everyone, all panellists and delegates, Perry, Elisabeth, Laurie, and Sarah for such a wonderful conference! We hope to be the first of many more online events that bring people together from all over the world. #AcaDramaConf

[Murat Öğütcü @MuratOgutcu1985]

Thank you for this terrific second keynote by Knight on how conflicting views on dresscodes were reflected on popular and academic stage

Thank you Jon and @elenaspnll so much for this wonderful event 💯

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[RHClossick @RHClossick]

Fantastic two-day conference @AcaDramaConf @StAndrewsUniv #AcaDramaConf

Managed virtually speakers, questions, clips, and coffee-break chats - very impressive.

Excellent speakers, all.

Well done, everyone!

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Clothes, Sarah argued, represented a means of performance that was just as important in the universities as rhetorical performance. In drama, she continued, ostentatious learning is often represented through characters wearing valuable pieces of clothing. #AcaDramaConf

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Brilliant closing lecture by Sarah Knight! Starting from satirical statement that academics needed to adapt to the world outside, Sarah observed how clothing constituted an essential component of academic spectacle, order, and conformity. #AcaDramaConf

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Our final keynote lecture, by Professor Sarah Knight (University of Leicester), is about to start. It is titled: "Turning your library into a wardrobe". #AcaDramaConf

[Murat Öğütcü @MuratOgutcu1985]

Wow! Great last panel on reciprocal influences of popular and academic drama, Donald on how academic drama shaped repertoire of popular drama, Repetto on Nero plays and tyrannicide, Archer on pyrotechnics in Gorboduc @AcaDramaConf
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That's a wrap on our panels! Thank you again to all panellists for presenting such brilliant papers. #AcaDramaConf

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Our last panel is about to start! Talking intersections between academic and popular drama with Moira Donald, Maddalena Repetto and @DrHarrietArcher #AcaDramaConf

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Thank you to Elisabeth for sharing insight about the EDOX 'Narcissus' film with us, and answering our questions about staging e m academic drama today. 'Narcissus', she argued, is an example of how parody can really show mastery of a source text. #acadramaconf

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Thank you to our morning panellists! Our second 'Performance in Practice' session, with Prof Elisabeth Dutton, starts at 12:30. That will include a screening of the EDOX Narcissus she directed, followed by a Q&A session. #acadramaconf

[Dr Lorna Wallace @LookingForLorna]

Speaking this morning at @AcaDramaConf about the drama of the Jesuit Order. They’re more than just the priests from The Exorcist, although they could still get spooky in the early modern period! #AcaDamaConf

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Our morning panel is currently underway, exploring didacticism and the portrayal of learning environments in academic and popular plays. With Orlagh Davies, Neil Rhodes and @LookingForLorna #acadramaconf

[Murat Öğütcü @MuratOgutcu1985]

2. .... and how intertextual reading of these show the rising importance of the reader over the spectator.
Also liked her answer in Q/A on how by the time Webster published his works, printed text were treated like extended DVDs of films @AcaDramaConf
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[Murat Öğütcü @MuratOgutcu1985]

1. The first keynote by Laurie Maguire was so fascinating on the tradition of marginalia and stage directions influenced by translations of classical texts... @AcaDramaConf
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[Murat Öğütcü @MuratOgutcu1985]

Wonderful speech by Perry Mills on his Edward's Boys and academic drama. Q/A on whether issues of violence, sex, vulgarity, #race have been issues in performances were very interesting. @AcaDramaConf
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Thank you to all speakers and delegates for a very successful first day! We will be back tomorrow at 10:30am #acadramaconf

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Fantastic keynote lecture by Laurie Maguire on the printing of classical and commercial drama in sixteenth-century England. "Convergence in the playhouse, parallel lines in print", Laurie observed. #acadramaconf