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Shakespeare and the Actress: Renaissance Women’s Performance and the Dramatic Canon
14-15 July 2010 at the Queen’s House, Greenwich

Jointly sponsored by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, the Society for Renaissance Studies, and and the Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies, Roehampton University London. Further details are available.

The Renaissance and Early Modern Horse
June 2009

To mark the retirement of Professor Peter Edwards, the School of Arts and Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies held a conference, ‘The Renaissance and Early Modern Horse’ at Roehampton University, 19-20 June 2009 (see full programme). If you are interested in the conference, please contact Sara Pennell (s.pennell@roehampton.ac.uk).

Fifth Annual Conference
Renaissance Endings
October 2006

Keynote speaker: Dominic Dromgoole

And all our beauty, and our trimme, decayes,
Like courts removing, or like ended playes.
John Donne

The fifth annual conference of the Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies was held at Roehampton on 28 October 2006. The conference theme was ‘Renaissance Endings’.

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and author of Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life (Allen Lane, 2006) gave the Turner Lecture in Renaissance Studies (keynote lecture).

Invited speakers included Christie Carson (Royal Holloway London), Tobias Döring (Ludvig Maximilians University Munich), Gordon McMullan (King's College London) and Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast).

Papers dealt with the following topics:

Representations of death: epitaphs, funerary arts, relics; Death as spectacle; Death as actor; 'sad stories of the death of kings'

Textual and theatrical endings: strategies of closure, epilogues and postscripts; theatrical endings, including final speeches, final silences, final exits; closed and open bodies on the early modern stage

Avoiding closure: famously unfinished texts; adaptations and sequels; rewriting Shakespearean endings in theatre and film

Periodicity: 'courts removing'; dynastic endings; the end of the 'Renaissance' (contemporary and modern perspectives)

Please click here for a full programme of the 2006 conference.

Fourth Annual Conference
Renaissance Lives
October 2005

The Centre's fourth annual conference was held at Roehampton on 22 October 2005. The conference theme was 'Renaissance Lives'. Dr David Starkey gave the Turner Lecture in Renaissance Studies (keynote lecture).

Invited speakers included: Tom Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck University of London, Kate McLuskie, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Marion Wynne-Davies, Reader in English, Dundee University.

Please click here for a full programme of the 2005 conference.

Comments on the Fourth Annual Conference

• 'Thank you for hosting such an enjoyable conference on Saturday. I found the session in which I spoke, and the day as a whole, very stimulating, and I met several new scholars with whom I will certainly remain in touch.'
• 'Many thanks for organising an excellent conference. The discussions were highly stimulating and hopefully will herald a greater liaison between the history and the literary disciplines; after all we are both aiming to achieve similar things.'