Beyond Shakespeare's Globe: People, Place and Plays in the Middlesex suburbs 1400-1700 Conference Programme

Conference Programme Centre for Metropolitan History London Metropolitan Archives

Greene's Tu Quoque, 1614

Beyond
Shakespeare's Globe

People, Place and Plays
in the Middlesex suburbs
1400–1700

Saturday 15 October 2005

A conference, organised by Dr Eva Griffith,
the London Metropolitan Archives and
the Centre for Metropolitan History,
with 'Jigs, ballads and drolls' by the Lions part theatre company
in association with Passamezzo

held at

London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB
and
The Clerkenwell Theatre
26 Exmouth Market, London EC1

Programme

At London Metropolitan Archives

9.30	Registration
10.00	History, theatre history and the Middlesex suburbs Dr Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London) 'Disdaining Bondage': the Middlesex suburbs 1400–1700 Professor William Ingram (University of Michigan) What's Hecuba to Him, or He to Hecuba?'
11.00	Coffee
11.30	Early Middlesex: People, Players and Entertaining Clerkenwell Dr Jessica Freeman (REED/Royal Holloway, University of London) ‘...the parishyners...did meet often tymes...for a merrymente and to make good Cheere togyther...’ Fraternities in Middlesex before 1548 Professor Anne Lancashire (University of Toronto) *Multi-Day Performance and the London Clerkenwell Play* John A W Lock ‘Madde & Out of hys Wittes’ – an actor of the early 16th century
12.50	Sandwich Lunch
14.00	Middlesex and Clerkenwell: Terrain, Evidence, Data Dr John Schofield (Museum of London) The myth of the Great Fire and its effect on study of London’s suburbs Gill Newton (Cambridge Group for the History of Population) Marriage a-la-mode: matrimony and mobility among the inhabitants of early modern Clerkenwell Dr Duncan Salkeld (University College Chichester) New Allusions to London ‘Shewes’ and Playhouses, 1575–1604
15.20	Tea
15.50	Citizen Playhouses? Actors and Audiences Professor John Astington (University of Toronto) *Playing the Man: Acting at the Red Bull and the Fortune* Dr Marta Straznicky (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario) Apprentice Literacy and the Red Bull Repertory, 1605–1615 Dr Mark Bayer (American University of Beirut) The Red Bull and Shakespeare
17.10	Visit to the sites of the Red Bull Theatre and the Revels Office Buildings
18.30	Buffet supper with a Jacobean flavour at the Clerkenwell Theatre, 26 Exmouth Market, EC1
19.30	‘Jigs, Ballads and Drolls’ performed by the Lions part theatre company and Passamezzo at the Clerkenwell Theatre
21.00 approx	Conference ends

map showing location of theatre

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