MLA Sessions Fall 2004

MLA 2004—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Session 390 (MRDS)
Teaching Early Drama in the Undergraduate Classroom
Wednesday, 29 December
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Congress C, Loews

Presiding: Paula M. von Loewenfeldt, Univ. of Puget Sound

"South Park Reads Mankind: How Morality Plays Today,"
Michael Basile, New Jersey City Univ.

"'They Fere Not My Rightwysenes': Teaching the Role of Emotion in Everyman,"
Katharine Goodland, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York

"By and for Students: Some Pragmatics of Low-Stress Staging,"
Betsy A. Bowden, Rutgers Univ., Camden

"English Renaissance Drama in a Department of Theater Studies: Pedagogy and Film and Video Performance,"
Charles J. Del Dotto, Duke Univ.

• Session 696 (MRDS)
Domestic Violence in Early Drama
Thursday, 30 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Commonwealth Hall C, Loews

Presiding : Gerard Peter NeCastro, Univ. of Maine, Machias

"'Hold Your Hands, Honest Men!': Wife Beating as Popular Drama,"
Pamela Allen Brown, Univ. of Connecticut, Stamford

"'There's No Danger In't': Taming Women in Fletcher's A Woman's Prize,"
Diane Marie Cady, Saint John's Univ., NY

"Marital Rape and the Medieval Theater of Everyday Life,"
Jody Enders, Univ. of California, Santa Barbra

Other Sessions of Interest

• Session 41
The Politics of Genre in Renaissance Drama
Monday, 27 December,
7:00-8:15 p.m.,
409, Philadelphia Marriot

"Marketplace Miracle Plays,"
Adam Zucker, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

"The Masque of Docile Readers, Danced by New-Historicist Critics and Revisionist Historians, upon Sundry Occasions, 1975-2005,"
Lauren Shohet, Villanova Univ.

"Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial,"
Zachary Lesser, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

• Session 110
The Shakespeare Variorum: From Furness to Cyberspace
Tuesday, 28 December,
10:15-11:30 a.m,
307, Philadelphia Marriott

"The Philadelphia Variorum,"
Richard Alan John Knowles, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

"Book into Data: The Electronic NVS,"
Julia H. Flanders, Brown Univ.

• Session 215
Presentism and the End of History in Shakespeare Studies
Tuesday, 28 December,
1:45-3:00 p.m.,
302, Philadelphia Marriott

"Bringing Home the Bard,"
Terence Frederick Hawkes, Univ. of Wales

"Shakespeare and the Prospect of Presentism,"
Ewan Fernie, Univ. of London, Royal Holloway Coll.

"Presentist Materialist Shakespeare,"
Hugh Grady, Arcadia Univ.

• Session 236
Philosophical Shakespeares: Encounters between Shakespeare and Contemporary Philosophy
Tuesday, 28 December
3:30-4-:45 p.m.
204-A, Convention Center

"To Close Impossibilities': Circumventing and Saying Not-Knowing,"
Ned Lukacher, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

"Playing the Cook with Titus: Shakespeare in Cascade,"
Julian D. Yates, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

• Session 376
Text as Spectacle, Spectacle as Text I
Wednesday, 29 December
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Washington A, Loews

"'Lebende Bilde': Crafting the Performance of Middle High German Courtly Literature,"
Alexandra C. Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State Univ.

"The Fluidity of Gender in the Visual Program of Thomasin von Zerklaere's 'Welscher Gast,'"
Kathryn Starkey, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Spectacles of State: Political Theory and Theatrical Practice in the Late Baroque and Early Enlightenment,"
Kirk Williams, Yale Univ.

• Session 380
Religio-political Imagery in Marlowe: Rome, Babel, and Islam
Wednesday, 29 December
10:15-11:30 a.m.
Grand Ballroom Salon J, Philadelphia Marriott

"Vatican-on-Thames: Marlovian Romes and Their Dramatic Uses,"
Brett C. Foster, Yale Univ.

"'As many Several Languages As I Have Conquered Kingdoms': Tamburlaine 2 and the Babel Topos,"
Per Sivefors, Blekinge Inst. Of Tech.

"'Seek Out Another Godhead': Religious Epistemology and Representations of Islam in Tamburlaine,"
Joel E. Slotkin, Stanford Univ.

• Session 465
Thinking with Shakespeare
Wednesday, 29 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
201 B, Convention Center

"Shakespeare and Freud,"
Christopher Pye, Williams Coll.

"Shakespeare contra Benjamin,"
Richard Louis Halpern, Johns Hopkins Univ.

"Shakespeare with Arendt,"
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Univ. of California, Irvine

• Session 605
Text as Spectacle, Spectacle as Text II
Wednesday, 29 December
7:15-8:30 p.m.
Washington A, Loews

"Lions and Tigers and Bears: The Exotic as Spectacle in Adam Olearius's 'Persianischer Rosenthal' (1654),"
Elio C. Brancaforte, Tulane Univ.

"Reading Images, Seeing Stories of Sociability in Georg Philipp Harsdšrffer's 'Frauenzimmer GesprŠchspiele,'"
Karin Anneliese Wurst, Michigan State Univ.

"The Absence of the Picture in Harsdšrffer's GemŠhlspiele,"
Markus Wilczek, Johns Hopkins Univ.

"Writing from the Margins: A Reassessment of Cultural Hegemony in Lohenstein's 'Sophonisbe,'"
Daniel John Kramer, Coll. of the Holy Cross

• Session 632
Shakespeare and Humanist Education
Thursday, 30 December
8:30-9:45 a.m.
401-403, Philadelphia Marriott

"'Petty to [Their] Ends'? Humanist Elementary Pedagogy and Shakespeare's English Lessons,"
Gwynn A. Dujardin, Northwestern Univ.

"Copia and Controversia: Rhetorics of Rule and Misrule in the Merchant of Venice,"
Linda Suzanne Shenk, Rochester Inst. of Tech.

"Prospero's Rage: The failure of Humanism in The Tempest,"
Richard A. Strier, Univ. of Chicago