Workshop: Ceremony, Ritual and Performance in the 18th Century
- Location
- Lecture Theatre 3, Strathcona Building
- Dates
- Wednesday 13 May 2015 (09:45-17:00)
- Contact
Places are free but limited. Please e-mail by 6 May 2015 to book, specifying any special dietary requirements.
Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre Joint Annual Workshop with Warkwick Eighteenth-Century Centre.
Full day workshop with talks on Performance in the 18th Century; Memory, History & Text; Theatres of War. Followed by tours of The Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the Cadbury Research Library. Lunch included.
10.20-11.30am Performance in the 18th Century
Charles Walton ‘Law, Vengeance and French Revolutionary Theatre’
Martin Perkins ‘Public Performances and Public Performers: Concert Life in the Late Eighteenth-Century Midlands’
David Taylor ‘Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and the Staging of War, 1793-1801’
11.50-1pm Memory, History and Text
Clare Siviter ‘Rewriting tragic History in the age of Napoleon’
Martin Killeen ‘Irradiated Glory: some 18th Century Perspectives on Stonehenge’
Emil Rybczak ‘Reading against the Grain: The Popularity of Shakespeare, Shadwell, and Dryden and Davenant's Tempests in Print’
2.00-3.10pm Theatres of War
Kate Astbury ‘Theatre during Napoleon's 100 days, March-July 1815’
Elodie Duché ‘High Life Below War: British Prisoner of War Theatricals in Napoleonic Verdun’
Devon Cox ‘French Prisoner of War Theatricals at Portchester Castle during the Napoleonic wars'
3.30-4.15pm Visit to Barber Institute of Fine Arts with Barbara Fogarty
4.15-5pm Visit to Cadbury Research Library with Martin Killeen