MRDS Newsletter: MLA Sessions Fall 2003
MLA 2003San Diego, California
Session 19
Marlovian Sociopolitical Contexts
Saturday, 27 December,
3:30-4:45 p.m.,
Edward A, Manchester Grand Hyatt
Program arranged by the Marlowe Society of America.
"Lucan, Lucrece, and the Counterepic of Empire: The
Afterlife of Marlowe's Republican Authorship,"
Patrick G. Cheney, Penn State Univ., University Park
"Forms of Fellowship in the Jew of Malta,"
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Univ. of California, Irvine
"'The Ruin of the Multitude': Marlowe and Radical Political
Thought,"
Graham Lawrence Hammill, Univ. of Notre Dame
Session 139
The Comedia and Islam I
Saturday, 27 December,
8:45-10:00 p.m.,
Columbia 3, San Diego Marriott
"Infamia castellana y afrenta morisca en Amar despus de la
muerte,"
Manuel Delgado, Bucknell Univ.
"Los tres diamantes: Lope's Drama of
Disappearance,"
Robert S. Stone, United States Naval Acad.
"Christianity and Islam in the Comedia: Religion, Sex,
Identity, and the Body,"
Matthew D. Stroud, Trinity Univ.
Session 257
Contested Objects: Religious Upheaval, Catholic Idols, and Body
Parts on the
Renaissance Stage
Sunday, 28 December,
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Edward B, Manchester Grand Hyatt
"Crucifixes, Catholics, and Capuchins: Desecrated Rituals in
Webster's White Devil,"
Elizabeth Williamson, Univ. of Pennsylvania
"'Strike All That Look upon with Marvel': Magical Statues, the
Idolatrous Gaze, and Shakespeare's Protestant Theater of
Wonder,"
Huston Diehl, Univ. of Iowa
"Religious Conversion and the Persistence of Catholic
Materiality in Massinger's The Renegado,"
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Respondent: Debora K. Shuger, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Session 285
Language and Gender in Shakespeare
Sunday, 28 December,
1:45-3:00 pm.
Manchester Ballroom D, Manchester Grand Hyatt
"Female Macho Performativity,"
Donald K. Hedrick, Kansas State Univ.
"Translation, Gender, and Constructions of Identity in Henry
V and Henry IV, Part I,"
Deborah Uman, Eastern Connecticut State Univ.
"Rhythms of Female Thought in All's Well That Ends
Well,"
Lars Engle, Univ. of Tulsa
Session 392
Early-Modern Spanish Drama and Its Historical Contexts
Sunday, 28 December,
7:15-8:30 p.m.
Torrey 3, San Diego Marriott
"La inauguracin del Saln de los Reinos y El guila del
agua, representacin espaola de Vlez de Guevara,"
C. George Peale, California State Univ., Fullerton
"Fashioning Tragedy from History: Emblematic Scenes in Reinar
despus de morir,"
Donald R. Larson, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
"Multa Regna sed Una Lex: The Isolation Policy under the
Count-Duke of Olivares: Lope's El Brasil restituido,"
Robert M. Shannon, Saint Joseph's Univ.
Session 503
The Comedia and Islam II
Monday, 29 December,
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Torrance, San Diego Marriott
"The Muslim in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish and
English Plays,"
Constance H. Rose, Northeastern Univ.
"Islam and Lope's El remedio en la desdicha,"
David H. Darst, Florida State Univ.
"Conversin de moros: Fe y razn en el primer teatro
espaol,"
Ignacio Javier Lpez, Duke Univ.
Session 637
Medieval Literature and Ritual Performance
Monday, 29 December,
7:15-8:30 p.m.
Green Room, San Diego Marriott
"Mourning and Ritual Performance in the Devotional Writings of
Saint Anselm,"
Elizabeth A. Weinstock, Barnard Coll.
"The Description of Ceremony and the Ceremony of Description in
Galbert of Bruge's 'Journal,'"
Jeff Rider, Wesleyan Univ.
"The Judeo-Spanish Dance of Death: A paraliturgical Text?"
Michelle M. Hamilton, Univ. of California, Irvine
Session 671
Marlowe and Cultural Intertextuality
Monday, 29 December,
7:15-8:30 p.m.
Madeleine C and D, Manchester Grand Hyatt
"Clothes, Class, and Character in Marlowe's Plays,"
Sara Munson Deats, Univ. of South Florida
"Hero's Needlework,"
Georgia Elizabeth Brown, Univ. of Cambridge, Queen's Coll.
Session 696A
Counterfactual Dramas of the English Renaissance
Tuesday, 30 December
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Randle A and B, Manchester
Grand Hyatt
"Hamlet, Prince Henry, and the Loss of the Herculean
Hero,"
John A. Buchtel, Univ. of Virginia
"Counterfactuals and Historical Allegory: Rewriting the
Misfortunes of Elizabeth, 1587-88,"
John David Staines, Earlham Coll.
"Killing Cordelia: Historical Heresies in King
Lear,"
Philip Arthur Schwyzer, Univ. of Exeter
Respondent: Joseph Michael Sullivan, Marietta Coll.