PROGRAM
Marlowe Society of America
Ninth International Conference
DEPTFORD UK
9 to 12 July 2024
NAVIGATING THE CONFERENCE
You will find an interactive map of conference venues at the end of the program to help with navigation. Registration, keynotes, and the plenary panel will take place in the Whitehead building and panels in the Professor Stuart Hall Building on Goldsmiths campus. See here for a campus map.
Download a PDF of the full conference program here.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The executive committee would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the conference. This conference would not have been possible without their support.
The Goldsmiths event team, especially Caroline Rondel and Abigail Bonds
The Goldsmiths English Department, especially Abigail Shinn, Ros Barber, and Head of Department Jane Desmerais
The Shakespeare Centre London, a collaboration between King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe
Will Tosh, Emma Rose Kraus, and the Education Producing Team at Shakespeare’s Globe
The Master Shipwright’s House
Klose and Soan for banquet catering
Tracey Hill and Matt Haynes for walking tours
Robert Crighton and Beyond Shakespeare for the Wednesday-night play-reading
Celia Gilbert and colleagues at the Rose Playhouse and Rose Theatre Trust
Kirk Melnikoff for sharing advice and other assistance as past MSA President
Bre Weber for running the website and social media during the conference
Emily Saunders, Rebecca Adusei, and Iris Caraballo Sanz for logistical help during the conference
Aaron T. Pratt for technical support
Aly Bourne of Mostly Cloudy Paper Company for the conference logo design
A SPECIAL NOTE
“As many of you will be aware, Goldsmiths is currently facing large scale redundancies. The department of English and Creative Writing is one of those in scope. There has been a period of local strike action and UCU has called a global academic boycott. While there are differing views on both of these actions, the department supports the MSA holding sessions at Goldsmiths this summer. Despite the incredibly difficult circumstances in which we find ourselves, we would like to continue to celebrate the culture of intellectual collaboration that lies at the heart of what we do.” —Abigail Shinn, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
PLEASE FIND BIOS FOR ALL OUR SPEAKERS HERE.
TUESDAY, JULY 9
10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
WALKING TOUR OF DEPTFORD
Meeting Location: Deptford Bridge Station (DLR) • South Exit (on south side of the road)
Led by Matt Haynes, this is a walk of just over two miles from Deptford Bridge to the Thames and St Nicholas’s church where Marlowe is buried. The walk will start at Deptford Bridge station on the DLR (south exit) and end at the top of the High Street, which is around 10 minutes’ walk from Goldsmiths.
Space is limited. Please sign up here.
noon to 4:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
1:00 to 2:15 p.m.
PANEL 1.1 • EXPERIENCING MARLOWE, EXPERIENCING WITH MARLOWE
Chair: David McInnis
Location: PSH 314
Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University) • ‘Tamburlaine of the Burning Pestle: Marlowe’s Spectacles of Antipathy’
Matthew Steggle (University of Bristol) • ‘Marlowe the Flier’
Bradley D. Ryner (Arizona State University) • ‘Marlowe, Shakespeare and Capitalism in Liz Duffy Adams’s Born With Teeth’
PANEL 1.2 • THE MASSACRE AND HISTORY
Chair: Abigail Shinn
Location: PSH 326
Joseph Khoury (St Francis Xavier University) • ‘Marlowe’s Reading of Anne Dowriche’s The French Historie’
Jennifer Millard (University of Alberta) • ‘Massacre, Mutability, and Motherhood: Intersections Between Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris and Edmund Spenser’s Two Cantos of Mutabilitie’
Paul Quinn (University of Chichester) • ‘Doctor Who and Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris: An Adventure in Time and Space and Sixteenth-Century English Religio-Political Drama’
2:15 to 2:45 p.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
2:45 to 4:00 p.m.
PANEL 1.3 • MARLOWE, ECOCRITICISM, AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
Chair: Todd Andrew Borlik
Location: PSH 314
Alys Daroy (Murdoch University) • ‘Dido, Queen of Kinship? Biophilic Marlowe in the Anthropocene’
Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster University) • ‘Parchment, Paper, Print, iPad: Marlowe’s Ecocodicological Elegies’
Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) • ‘Tempus and Distemperature: Marlowe’s Lucan and the Anthropocene’
Daniel Vitkus (University of California, San Diego) • ‘Ecocriticism, Political Ecology, and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus’
ROUNDTABLE • MARLOWE’S DIRECTORS
Chair: Sarah Dustagheer
Location: PSH 326
Featuring a discussion with directors Ricky Dukes (Theatre Director, Lazarus Theatre Company), James Wallace (Theatre Director, The Dolphin’s Back), Kim Sykes (Theatre Director), and Rebecca McCutcheon (Theatre Director)
4:15 to 5:30 p.m.
KEYNOTE • RUBEN ESPINOSA (Arizona State University)
‘Marlowe in the Moment: The Weight of White Love’
Chair: Claire M. L. Bourne
Location: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre (Whitehead Building)
5:30 to 6:00 p.m.
FREE TIME
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
OPENING RECEPTION
Location: Council Chamber in Deptford Town Hall (Entrance on New Cross Road between St. James’ and Laurie Grove)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10
9:00 a.m. to noon
REGISTRATION
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
9:00 to 10:15 a.m.
PANEL 2.1 • DOCTOR FAUSTUS REDUX
Chair: Kirk Melnikoff
Location: PSH 314
Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland) • ‘“Every Quiddity Thereof”: Preparing to Conjure in Dr. Faustus and The Devil’s Charter’
Tyler Dunston (University of Michigan) • ‘“The stars move still”: Haste and Delay in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus’
Daniel Yabut (CNRS Montpellier) • ‘“j dragon in Fostus”: Exploring the Use of Puppets in Doctor Faustus and Other Early Modern Plays Outside of Jonson’s Corpus’
PANEL 2.2 • BIBLICAL & CLASSICAL MARLOWE
Chair: Liz Oakley-Brown
Location: PSH 326
Irène Vilquin (Sorbonne-Nouvelle University) • ‘Euhemerist Echoes in Christopher Marlowe’s 1 & 2 Tamburlaine the Great’
Ruth Lunney (University of Newcastle, Australia) • ‘Double-Dating with Dido’
Georgina Crespi (University of Reading) • ‘Obedience and Allegiance Through the Use of Lucifer in Doctor Faustus’
10:15 to 10:45 a.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
10:45 a.m. to noon
WORKSHOP • EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING
Led by Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin University)
Location: PSH 314
This professional development session, hosted by Shakespeare Bulletin and featuring editors from Early Theatre, Journal of Marlowe Studies, and Shakespeare, aims to answer your questions about publishing in scholarly journals. Come and join us for informal conversation about developments in scholarly publishing, strategies for choosing where and when to submit pieces, and ways to get support with developing your work. This session is aimed at early career scholars, but open to anyone with an interest in knowing more about journal practices or who would like to talk about future publication opportunities.
PANEL 2.3 • EARLY MODERN ACTING: MARLOWE & SKILL
Chair: Eoin Price
Location: PSH 326
Hannah Wilson (King’s College London) • ‘“Marlowe’s Mighty [Scaffolded] Line”: Christopher Marlowe, Training Practices and the Playing Companies of Elizabethan London.’
Simon Smith (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) • ‘Interrupting and Falling down: The Many Actorly Skills of The Jew of Malta’
Jade Standing (Queen’s University) • ‘“And yet they thrust not home”: The Swords of the Marlovian Stage’
noon to 1:00 p.m.
CATERED LUNCH
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
1:00 to 2:15 p.m.
PANEL 2.4 • HERO AND LEANDER IN FLUX
Chair: Sarah Wall-Randell
Location: PSH 314
Joel M. Dodson (Southern CT State University) • ‘A “quality of hardness”: Why is Marlowe Teachable?’
Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University) • ‘Hero and Leander and Vulnerability’
Yao YinRui (Sun Yat-sen University) • ‘Becoming Venus: The Transformation of Heroine in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander’
PANEL 2.5 • MARLOWE AND MATERIALITY I: TEXT AND LANGUAGE
Chair: Claire M. L. Bourne
Location: PSH 326
Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University) • ‘The White, The Red and The Black: Color-Coordinating Tamburlaine’
Anouska Lester (Independent Researcher) • ‘Here be dragons: The Staging and Chronology of Doctor Faustus According to Henslowe’s Inventories’
Laurie Johnson (University of Southern Queensland) • ‘“And til by vision, or by speech”: Equipping Marlowe for the Provincial Stage’
2:15 to 2:45 p.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
2:45 to 4:00 p.m.
PLENARY PANEL • RE-EDITING MARLOWE FOR THE MODERN READER
Chair: Brett Greatley-Hirsch
Location: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre (Whitehead Building)
Chloe Kathleen Preedy (University of Exeter) • ‘“Is Machiavelli Evil?”, And Other Questions: Editing The Jew of Malta’
András Kiséry (CCNY) and Jane Raisch (University of York) • ‘Editing a Complete Marlowe for a Student Audience Now’
Rory Loughnane (University of Kent) • ‘Re-Editing Marlowe: Challenges and Opportunities’
4:00 to 4:30 p.m.
FREE TIME
4:30 to 5:45 p.m.
KEYNOTE • SUBHA MUKHERJI (University of Cambridge)
‘Faith and Fable: Marlowe’s Evidentiary Drama’
Chair: Lucy Munro
Location: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre (Whitehead Building)
5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
FREE TIME
6:30 to 7:45 p.m.
PLAY READING
Location: Royal Albert Pub (460 New Cross Road)
The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast presents...
Faustus to Faustus
A collision of the source into the play that Marlowe and co-produced. From prose to verse; from the unstagable, to the practical; from story to drama. Marlowe and Nashe pull apart the opening of a popular book to try and make it into drama. Part of our ongoing exploration of literature and drama from the early modern period, to be recorded live for the podcast.
Beyond Shakespeare is a podcast, a video channel, a theatre company much more – our aim is to produce full cast audio adaptations of every single play written prior to 1642 – with 38 exceptions. By doing this, we hope to build an audience large enough to produce full scale productions of these plays – which, of course, we would also record in various ways.
N.B.: The Royal Albert Pub has arranged a screen to watch the England vs. Netherlands semifinal in our private room following the play-reading.
THURSDAY, JULY 11
9:00 to 10:15 a.m.
PANEL 3.1 • MARLOWE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
Chair: Sarah Dustagheer
Location: PSH 314
Lisa M. Barksdale-Shaw (Arizona State University) • ‘“Redress these wrongs and warn him to his ships”: Slave Trade Routes, the Maltese ship Carriere, and Marlowe’s Dido, the Queen of Carthage’
Philip Goldfarb Styrt (St. Ambrose University) • ‘Marlowe’s Ottomans and Imperial Delegation’
Cristiano Ragni (University of Verona) • ‘“Why look’st thou toward the sea?” Civil Wars and/in Marlowe’s Mediterranean’
PANEL 3.2 • MARLOWE AND MATERIALITY II: BLOOD AND BODIES
Chair: Claire M. L. Bourne
Location: PSH 326
Lily Freeman-Jones (Queen Mary University of London) • ‘Curtle-axes and Wound Balm: Charmed Skin’s Failures in Tamburlaine I and II’
Patrick Durdel (University of Lausanne) • ‘Blood in Exchange, Blood as Prop: The Material Challenges of Conceptual Bartering in Tamburlaine, Part 1’
Gina Walter (University of Bristol) • ‘“Shadows” and “substance”: Sight and Touch as Proofs of Material Teality in Doctor Faustus’
Todd Andrew Borlik (University of Huddersfield) • ‘Stage Traps and Pest Control in The Jew of Malta’
10:15 to 10:45 a.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
10:45 a.m. to noon
PANEL 3.3 • TOPICALITY AND TRANSFORMATION: REANIMATING THE MASSACRE AT PARIS
Chair: Drew Daniel
Location: PSH 314
Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University) • ‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the Joans’
Diana E. Henderson (MIT) • ‘A Massacre for the Times?’
PANEL 3.4 • REVISITING EDWARD THE SECOND
Chair: Christine Varnado
Location: PSH 326
Jennifer E. Nicholson (University of Sydney / Abbotsleigh School) • ‘Marlowe’s French Lessons’
Kerry Cooke (Mary Baldwin University) • ‘“I seal, I cancel, I do what I will”: Letters and Rival Secretariats in Edward II’
Carlos Pons Guerra (University of Leeds / Independent Choreographer) • ‘“A lovely boy in Dian’s Shape”: Embodying Queer Resistance by Adapting Edward II into Dance’
noon to 6:00 p.m.
FREE TIME FOR TRAVEL TO THE GLOBE & DINING
Directions from Goldsmiths to the Globe:
OPTION 1: Take the mainline train (SouthEastern) from New Cross to London Bridge or Cannon Street. It’s about the same distance from either, with either a walk along the river (optionally via Borough Market, which offers good lunch options) or across the Southwark Bridge.
OPTION 2: Take the number 21 bus, which leaves from just outside Goldsmiths and stops at Union Street, a short walk from the Globe.
2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
‘TO A PLAYE AT THE BULL’: A MARLOVIAN(ISH) WALKING TOUR (BANKSIDE & CITY)
Meeting Location: The Rose Playhouse (56 Park Street SE1 9AR)
Led by Tracey Hill, this 90-minute tour begins at the site of the Rose Playhouse, ventures north of the Thames, and ends up on the Bankside. Learn more about the Rose, Bel Savage and their connections to Marlowe, as well as the vibrant neighborhoods in which the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and other writers were staged.
Space is limited. Please sign up here.
3:00 to 3:45 p.m.
TOUR OF THE ROSE PLAYHOUSE
Meeting Location: The Rose Playhouse (56 Park Street SE1 9AR)
Space is limited. Please sign up here.
4:00 to 4:45 p.m.
TOUR OF THE ROSE PLAYHOUSE
Meeting Location: The Rose Playhouse (56 Park Street SE1 9AR)
Space is limited. Please sign up here.
6:00 to 8:15 p.m.
RESEARCH IN ACTION: MARLOWE IN REPERTORY at the SAM WANAMAKER PLAYHOUSE
Sponsored by The Shakespeare Centre London
Location: Shakespeare’s Globe (21 New Globe Walk)
Led by Lucy Munro (King’s College London) and Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent), this workshop examines the performances of Marlowe’s plays alongside those of his contemporary playwrights.
PLEASE CONSULT YOUR EMAIL FOR YOUR TICKET TO THIS WORKSHOP. THE GLOBE SENT TICKETS DIRECTLY TO CONFERENCE DELEGATES.
FRIDAY, JULY 12
9:00 to 10:15 a.m.
THE MEGHAN C. ANDREWS MEMORIAL LECTURE
KEYNOTE • EOIN PRICE (Edinburgh University)
‘Doctors Faustus: Repeat Performance and Audience Response’
Chair: David McInnis
Location: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre (Whitehead Building)
10:15 to 10:45 a.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
10:45 a.m. to noon
PANEL 4.1 • MAKING MEANING: SPACE & EFFECTS IN PERFORMANCE
Chair: Chloe Kathleen Preedy
Location: PSH 314
Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley (Uppsala University) • ‘“Here have I made a dainty gallery”: Playhouse Space and Performance in The Jew of Malta’
Abigail Shinn (Goldsmiths, University of London) • ‘The Architecture of Conversion and The Jew of Malta’
Linden Hogarth (Stanford University) • ‘“King Priam wags his hand”: Lively Statues in Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Winter’s Tale’
Kitamura Sae (Musashi University, Tokyo) • ‘How to Burn a Character on the Early Modern Stage: Fire in Dido, Queen of Carthage’
PANEL 4.2 • KNOWING MARLOWE / KNOWING OURSELVES
Chair: Simon Smith
Location: PSH 326
Ros Barber (Goldsmiths, University of London) • ‘Rethinking Marlowe: A New Biographical Source’
Christine Varnado (University at Buffalo-SUNY) • ‘The Extra Devil, Re-visited’
Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin University) • ‘Killing Marlowe, Becoming Shakespeare: The Death of the Author in Born With Teeth’
noon to 1:00 p.m.
CATERED LUNCH
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
1:00 to 2:15 p.m.
PANEL 4.3 • RETHINKING RECEIVED WISDOM: NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARLOWE STUDIES
Chair: Matthew Steggle
Location: PSH 314
Rachel Wifall (Saint Peter’s University) • ‘Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris: Nihilism for Then and Now’
Brett Greatley-Hirsch (University of Leeds) • ‘“[V]sher'd”, “presented”, and “inserted”: Heywood's Hand in The Jew of Malta’
Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith (University of Oxford) • ‘Marlowe in/and Company’
PANEL 4.4 • MARLOWE AND FORMS OF VIOLENCE
Chair: Diana E. Henderson
Location: PSH 326
Robert Darcy (University of Nebraska at Omaha) • ‘Life, Tyranny, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma in Tamburlaine’
Helen L. Hull (Queens University of Charlotte) • ‘Terror at Home: Violence in the Streets in Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris’
Robin Hizme (Queens College, CUNY) • ‘Affect and “English” Attunement in Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris’
2:15 to 2:45 p.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Location: Foyer, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
2:45 to 4:00 p.m.
PANEL 4.5 • MARLOWE AND NEW EDITORIAL APPROACHES TO HENRY THE SIXTH
Chair: Claire M. L. Bourne
Location: PSH 314
Tara L. Lyons (Illinois State University) • ‘Another Hand in the First Part of the Contention’
Will Sharpe (University of Birmingham) • ‘Editing Shakespeare’s Revision of Marlowe in Henry VI Part 3’
Jesús Tronch (Universitat de València) • ‘Marlovian criteria in editing the texts of Richard Duke of York and The Third Part of Henry VI’
ROUNDTABLE • THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Chair: Lucy Munro
Location: PSH 326
Featuring a discussion with editors Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent), Kirk Melnikoff (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), and Katherine Walker (University of Nevada)
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
FREE TIME
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
CLOSING BANQUET at MASTER SHIPWRIGHT’S HOUSE
Location: Watergate Street, Deptford, London SE8 3JF
MAP OF CONFERENCE VENUES
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