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Saturday 4 April 2020
Consumption, Performance, and Early Theatre
University of Wolverhampton
Date to be arranged
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| 9.00-9.30 |
Registration and welcome |
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| 9.30-11.00 |
Session 1: Food, Blood, and Violence
Lucy Deacon:
‘Blood, Tears and Forbidden Wine: Substitutes for Water in the Ta’ziyeh’s Karbala Cycle.’
Elisabeth Dutton and Liv Robinson:
‘Last Supper, First Communion.’
Philip Butterworth :
‘If your Bob doesn’t give our Bob that bob that your Bob owes our Bob, then our Bob’ll give your Bob a bob on’t nose: The Game of Abobbed.’
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| 11.00-11.30
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Coffee/Tea break
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| 11.30-13.00
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Session 2: Good and Bad Hospitality
Alexandra Claridge:
‘All Consuming Ideas in the Late Medieval Subtlety.’
Nadia van Pelt:
‘Death and the Jester: Leonor of Albuquerque’s “lively” coronation banquet in 1414.’
Ernst Gerhardt:
‘Staging Consumption in Lewis Wager’s The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene and Jacob and Esau.’
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| 13.00-14.00
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Lunch
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| 14.00-15.30
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Session 3: Performance, Consumption, and Medievalism
Jodi-Anne George:
‘Breaking (and Making) Bread in Jesus, Queen of Heaven and the Chester Last Supper Pageant.’
Paul Saunders:
‘The Minstrel’s Lament: If music be the food of love, why are we still starving and single?’
Anca Ignat and Iris Rusu:
‘Performance, Consumption, and Ritual in Medieval Transylvanian Cities.’
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| 15.30-16.00
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Tea/coffee break
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| 16.00-17.00
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Session 4: Moralising Consumption
Cathy Hume:
‘The Life of Job and virtuous feasting.’
Elsa Strietman:
‘The Transformation of History: nothing new under the sun. Rhetoricians and history.’
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| 17.00-18.00
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Business meeting
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