Proposed Schedule

Saturday 29th April

10.30 – 11.00 Welcome Delegates

 (Earl Grey and Shortbreads)
  Panel One: 
 Chair: Christian Billing (Warwick)
11.00 – 11.30 Mark Dooley (Teesside) ‘“Soft, daughter, you must know whether I will have you a son”:Female Bodies and Boy Players in the Plays of John Lyly’.
11.30 – 12.00  Kate Chedgzoy (Warwick) ‘”Hand to strange hand, lippe to lippe”: The Status of the Female Body in Recent Work on Early Modern Lesbianism'
12.00 – 12.20 Questions and Discussion


  
12.20 – 13.30    Lunch Break


  
  Panel Two:
 Chair: Ronnie Mulryne (Warwick)
13.30 – 14.00    James Knowles (Stirling) ‘“Prorsus inutilis ad thorum”: absolutely useless in bed, or male marriage and Turkish sexuality in Epicoene’.
14.00 – 14.30    Richard Dutton (Lancaster) 'The Early Stuart Afterlives of Epicoene'
14.30 – 15.00  Alison Findlay (Lancaster) ‘”To be perfectly Frank…”: Cross-dressing in Jonson’s The New Inn and Brome’s The Damoiselle.’
15.00 – 15.30 Questions and Discussion


  
15.30 - 16.15 Coffee Break


  
16.15. - 17.15 Keynote Speaker
Susanne Wofford
(Wisconsin-Madison)
 "Manifest women, error personae, and the 'motion' of a bride: Staging the Rhetoric of the Female Body in the Renaissance Theatre"
17.15 – 17.45   Questions and Discussion


  
17.45 – 19.00   Long Break


  
19.00 – 21.00    Performance of Epicoene (in the Theatre Studies Studio)
21.00 – 21.30 Questions and Discussion


 (with Company, in Studio)
21.30 – 22.30  Informal Drinks Reception (Hosted by Theatre Studies)


Sunday 30th April

09.30 – 10.30 Delegates’ Breakfast

  
  Panel Three:
 Chair: Margaret Shewring (Warwick)
10.30 – 11.00  Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse) ‘Looking Well to Linens:Women and Cultural Production in Othello and Early Modern England’.
11.00 – 11.30 Clare McManus (Queen’s Belfast) Provisional Title: ‘Staging the Female Body: Boy Actors and Female Players in Epicoene and The Masque of Queens’.
11.30 – 12.00 Melinda Gough (Oklahoma State) 'Henrietta Maria’s English Adaptations of Female Performance at the French Court'
12.00 – 12.30 Questions and Discussion


  
12.30 – 13.30  Lunch Break


  
  Panel Four:
Chair: Kate Chedgzoy (Warwick)
13.30 –14.00  Bridget Escolme (Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds) “Theatrical Contructions of the early modern subject: Webster's Women in single gender castings”.
14.00 – 14.30 Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam)
(to be confirmed)		 'With the Skin Side Inside: The Interiors of The Duchess of Malfi'
14.30 – 15.00 Questions and Discussion


  
15.00 – 15.30   Coffee available


  
  Panel Five: Chair: Carol Chillington Rutter (Warwick)
15.30 – 16.00 Kathleen McLuskie (Southampton) Provisional Title: ‘Sex and dress in early modern drama’.
16.00 – 16.30 Marion O’Connor (Kent at Canterbury)  Provisional Title: ‘Cross-Dressing as a Theatrical Convention in Twentieth-Century Productions of Early Modern Drama’
16.30 – 17.00  Simon Shepherd (Goldsmiths' College, University of London) 'So what IS the female body?'
17.00 – 17.30 Questions and Discussion


  
17.30– 17.45 Summing Up