Role and Rule Conference

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Role and Rule: history and power on stage

Friday 6 to Sunday 8 February 2009
at Shakespeare’s Globe

Organised by Globe Education and the Università di Padova,
with the support of the Fondazione Cariparo

This conference will discuss the various modes of representation of monarchy in Tudor and Stuart England: more specifically, it focuses on how Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists staged England’s historical past and its political present by examining, through representations of past English monarchs, the role of Majesty and the relationship between subjects and power. The conference will highlight the celebration and praise lavished upon early modern monarchs in masques, triumphal processions, allegorical representations, and other theatrical forms such as public speeches.

Keynote speakers: Clare McManus, Stephen Orgel and Richard Wilson.

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Tickets: £100 (£25 students)

For more information on the conference please contact:
Prof. Alessandra Petrina, Università di Padova: alessandra.petrina@unipd.it

For booking information please contact:
Deborah Callan, Globe Education: deborah.c@shakespearesglobe.com

Call the box office on 020 7401 9919
(020 7902 1472 during December 2008)