British Shakespeare Association Biennial Conference 2005
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Panel - Stillness and Motion on the Early Modern Stage
Friday 2nd September 2005, 2.00-3.30pm,
Herschel Lecture Theatre 1
Participants | Call for Papers
Participants
Convenor - P. A. Skantze,
University of Glasgow
Armelle Sabatier
Charlotte Scott
Stuart Sillars, Bergen University
Call for Papers
Below is the original Call for Papers, as circulated. Please note that the date for submissions has passed and the successful participants are listed above.
Convenor: P A Skantze (University of Glasgow)
Though the sentence "performance is impossible without motion" seems self-evident, we have yet to due justice to how the category of motion works in the physical moment of performance and indeed echoes throughout early modern theatrical language. What practitioners of theatre, like Shakespeare, often show is the strengths and difficulties of motion while demonstrating the aesthetic possibilities when moving between and around what is still and what is moving.
For the panel I invite papers that take up the topic of stillness and motion in Shakespeare and early modern drama: possible intersections include forms of print and reading aloud; early modern interest in collection and category (this might also include categories of nation and race) and performative sites of display in such collections; the language of giving and withholding; "body" studies and the moving body, gender and associations between the fixed and the wandering. All papers should consider the interdependent nature of stillness and motion rather than reifying false binaries. Papers that think of theatre and of culture as worlds made by moving bodies are particularly welcome.
Contact: P A Skantze (a_skance@hotmail.com)
