Death and disappearance: “having fun” in early–modern Scotland.
In the Chair:
Professor Greg Walker Masson Professor of English Literature? University of Edinburgh.
Monday 24 May 2010
18:00?– 19:00
A project to locate all original evidence of play? ceremony and secular music in Scotland before 1645 has proved to be a lot more than the fun implicit in the subject matter. Early–modern Scotland has left us little in the way of literary drama? but its varied records constitute an immensely rich source for exploring issues of theatricality and spectatorship in public life. To illustrate this? the lecture analyses some events from late sixteenth– and early seventeenth–century Scotland which contemporaries considered striking enough to be recorded for posterity.
John McGavin is a Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture, in English within the School of Humanities, and his research interests include the areas of late medieval English literature, and medieval and early-modern English and Scottish Drama, with particular interest in the interpretation of primary records of drama, theatricality and play. Professor McGavin was awarded the 2009 Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History for his 2007 publication: Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early-Modern Scotland.
Each of this year’s Inaugural Lectures in the School of Humanities will have an end of lecture collection for a good cause. For this lecture, the School wishes to support the ‘James Shears and Alan Bannon Memorial Fund’, the fund set up to support the families of the Firefighters who recently lost their lives in BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载.
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Building 65,
Lecture Theatre A
School of Humanities,
Avenue Campus, BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载,
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Refreshments
Tea and Coffee will be served at 17:30 in the North corridor.
A wine reception will be held following the lecture
If you would like to attend or have any further queries please contact Mrs Tina Clarke:
Phone: 02380 598768
Email: tec@soton.ac.uk