Keynote speakers
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Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. She a leading specialist in Shakespearean drama and women's writing of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who has a particular interest in feminist approaches to literature and drama. She is the author of Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama (1994), A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama (1999), and has made contributions to Shakespeare Survey, and to the Blackwell's Companions to Shakespeare's Comedies, Renaissance Drama and Renaissance Literature. She is also a General Editor of the Revels Plays (Manchester University Press). She has spoken at day schools at The Shakespeare Centre in Stratford, to the Royal Shakespeare Company's Summer School, and is an invited member of the International Shakespeare Conference at The Shakespeare Institute.
Alison Findlay will be giving the talk 'Re-marking revenge: gender and performance in Renaissance drama' on Thursday 6th September 2012 at 5 pm. |
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Edith Hall is a one of Britain's most respected classicists, who regularly gives public lectures and makes contributions to radio and television. She is currently Professor of Classics at King's College London, before which she held a Research Chair at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she directed the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome until November 2011. She also co-founded and is Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University, Chairman of the Gilbert Murray Trust, and Judge on the Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation. Her books include: Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy(1989); Medea in Performance 1500-2000. (2000; co-edited with Fiona Macintosh and Oliver Taplin); The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society (2006); Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, (2004; co-authored with Fiona Macintosh); Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun (Oxford University Press 2010). Edith Hall will be giving the public lecture ‘A day in the life of an Erinys’ on Wednesday 5th September 2012 Wine reception 5.15 pm **Registered conference delegates do not need to sign up for the lecture, however if you are not attending the conference please sign up on our eventbrite page **
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