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Social Depth Of RETHINKING IN THE SOCIAL DEPTH OF he “new social history” has exploded the myth that Shakespeare’s Tsociety comprised a culture of obedience. Repositioning his works in the popular politics of his period, social historians and literary critics reassess Shakespeare’s presentation of power and authority. Location: Rothenberg Hall Portrait of William Shakespeare by John Taylor, © National Portrait Gallery, London FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 8:30 Registration & Coee 1:00 Session 2 Conceptualizing Commoners and Social Struggle 9:30 Welcome: Steve Hindle (e Huntington) Moderator: Peter Lake Remarks: Chris Fitter (Rutgers University, Camden) David Norbrook “Rehearsing the Plebeians: e Classical and the Topical 10:00 Session 1 in Coriolanus” Popularity and Popular Politics in Early Modern England David Rollison (University of Sydney) “Shakespeare’s Overview: Did He Have Any eory of Moderator: English Historical Development?” David Norbrook (University of Oxford) 3:00 Break Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University) “Popularity and its Discontents: Staging Politics on the 3:15 Session 3 Shakespearean Stage” Class Rebellion in Henry VI Part Two Moderator: Markku Peltonnen (University of Helsinki) Chris Fitter “Popularity and the Arts of Rhetoric: Julius Caesar in Context” Andy Wood (Durham University) “‘Brave minds and hard hands’: Drama and Social 12:00 Lunch Relations in the Hungry 1590s” Stephen Longstae (University of Cumbria) “e Plebeians Revise the Uprising: What the Actors Made of Shakespeare’s Jack Cade” SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015 9:30 Registration & Coee 1:00 Session 5 Shakespeare and Tudor Institutional Change 10:00 Session 4 Women, Labor, and Food Production Moderator: Andy Wood Moderator: Paola Pugliatti (University of Florence) Chris Fitter Jean E. Howard (Columbia University) “‘As full of grief as age’: Geriatric Poverty, the Poor Law, “Shakespeare’s English Comedies and the Dialogue with and King Lear” Social History” Paola Pugliatti Frances E. Dolan (University of California, Davis) “Shakespeare and the ‘Military Revolution’: e Social “‘Know your food’: Titus Andronicus and the Local” and Cultural Weapons of Reformed War” 12:00 Lunch 3:00 Break 3:15 Session 6 Funding for this conference was made possible by Citizen Skepticism and Political Agency e Huntington’s William French Smith Endowment Moderator: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Logan Jean E. Howard USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Richard Wilson (Kingston University) “‘e lean, unwashed articer’: Shakespeare’s Missing Magna Carta” omas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College) “e Speaking Silence of Citizens in Shakespeare’s Richard III” RETHINKING Name(s): IN THE Address: SOCIAL DEPTH OF Email/Phone: Aliation: Conference registration and meals by reservation only. No conrmation will be sent. Seating for this event is limited. Conference registration fee ............................................... $ 25.00 (Students free) Registrations will be handled on a rst come, rst served basis. Buet lunch (April 17) ..................................................... $ 16.50 You are advised to register as soon as possible. Buet lunch (April 18) ..................................................... $ 16.50 Please mail form and check payable to “e Huntington” to: ❒ ❒ Vegetarian (check one) Yes No Juan Gomez, e Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108. TOTAL ................................ $ PHONE: (626) 405-3432 EMAIL: [email protected] Please note: Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library..
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