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Acknowledgements:
Supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) and the European Research Council (ERC) under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-‐2013)/ERC
grant agreement noEC617849
Cover Image: Wenceslas Hollar, The Long View of London (1642)
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Crossroads of Knowledge: Interdisciplines: Drama, Economics and Law
in Early Modern England
Saturday 17 October 2015 Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Convenors Subha Mukherji Rachel E. Holmes Tim Stuart-‐Buttle Elizabeth L. Swann Koji Yamamoto Colloquium summary Interdisciplines: Drama, Economics and Law in Early Modern England is a one-‐day colloquium which seeks to examine intersections between literature, law and economics in early modern England. As part of the broader, European Research Council-‐funded interdisciplinary project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, our speakers will be attentive to the epistemic intersections between drama and economy, drama and law: how did legal, social and economic practices of the time condition Renaissance drama? how did the early modern theatre respond to, and, in turn, shape the legal and economic life of the period? For further information on the research project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/crossroads.
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Conference programme
10.15 – 10.45 Registration and coffee 10.45 – 11.00 WELCOME 11.00 – 13.30 PANEL 1 -‐ POVERTY, PIETY AND CHARITY:
Chair: Koji Yamamoto (Cambridge)
• Rebecca Tomlin (Birkbeck) The place of charity in 1590s drama: Edward IV and Aldgate
• Andy Wood (Durham)
Work, drama and social relations in the hungry 1590s Respondents: Jennifer Bishop (Cambridge), Jason Scott-‐Warren (Cambridge) 13.30 – 14.15 LUNCH 14.15 – 16.45 PANEL 2 -‐ VENICE AND LAW :
Chair: Andrew Zurcher (Cambridge)
• Quentin Skinner (QMUL) Why Shylock loses his case: judicial rhetoric in ‘The Merchant of Venice’
• Maria Fusaro (Exeter)
Merchants of Venice, between drama and history Respondents: Mary Laven (Cambridge), Subha Mukherji (Cambridge) 16.45 – 17.15 COFFEE BREAK 17.15 – 18.00 CONCLUDING PANEL: Chair: Craig Muldrew (Cambridge) Discussants: Adrian Leonard (Cambridge), Julie Sanders (Newcastle) 18.00 – 19.00 DRINKS RECEPTION IN THE GROVE, FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE
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Abstracts
The place of charity in 1590s drama: Edward IV and Aldgate Rebecca Tomlin (Birkbeck, University of London) In 1586, the body of Sir Philip Sidney, hero of the battle of Zutphen and model of English masculine nobility, was held at the chapel in the Minories for three months before it was taken in a lavish and memorable procession, to be buried at St Paul’s. In a play staged a decade or so later, Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV (1599), it is reported that the people of London have interred the bodies of Jane and Matthew Shore in the Minories, in defiance of the orders of the king, (Richard III), and that the place where they died is now called ‘Shores’ Ditch’ in their memories. The area without Aldgate, including the Minories, Shoreditch and St Botolph’s church, is revisited throughout the play as a place where both violence and charity are practised. Recent memories are juxtaposed with history on-‐stage in a complex interaction between history, memory, narrative and place. Central to the play’s construction of the Shores as heroic Londoners is their participation in the city’s charitable practises. Poverty and economic catastrophe requiring relief were quotidian experiences in the early modern city, and using an archive of charitable collection petitions heard at St Botolph’s, this paper explores how alms-‐giving was performed in early modern London, and how it is used in Edward IV to construct early modern London as place in which civic charity is as admirable as military prowess.
Work, drama and social relations in the hungry 1590s Andy Wood (University of Durham) The 1590s were a decade of significant change in dramatic form and in social relations. In London in particular, it was a time of considerable stress: rising population, falling real wages, cold winters, expensive food and fuel combined to make the city and its suburbs miserable places for the poorer sort of people. This paper looks at the connection between the economic and social crisis of the 1590s and a number of (cherry-‐picked!) dramatic
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texts, most of all Henry VI Part 2 and its earlier version (as a bad quarto) The First Part of the Contention. Linking the language of social protest and class analysis in dramatic texts to outbursts of angry seditious speech by poor labouring men and women (as reported to criminal courts and the privy council), this paper suggests that the dramatic stage and the dramatic text formed spaces within which popular protest could be articulated with a surprising degree of clarity and authority.
Why Shylock loses his case: judicial rhetoric in 'The Merchant of Venice' Quentin Skinner (QMUL) To understand the trial scene in The Merchant of Venice, we need to know the intellectual materials out of which it was constructed. According to the majority of recent critics, Shakespeare specifically invokes the doctrine of equity, which first rose to prominence in English legal theory and practice towards the end of the sixteenth century. I shall argue that this interpretation not only leads to a misunderstanding of the structure of the scene, but to a misidentification of what is at issue in the case that Shylock presents. The positive case I shall put forward is that we need to see the scene as much in rhetorical as legal terms. The trial hinges on Shylock’s belief that his case takes the form -‐-‐ as the rhetoricians would express it -‐-‐ of a constitutio iuridicalis that is absoluta. Portia is able to show that what the court has before it is not a constitutio iuridicalis at all, but rather a constitutio legalis. It is the success of this rhetorical move that forces Shylock to withdraw his case.
Merchants in Venice between Facts and Fiction Maria Fusaro (University of Exeter) The paper will sketch the intersection between mercantile ethic and court procedure in Early Modern Venice, focusing on the peculiarities of the Venetian judicial system and how these would have affected a case such as that of The Merchant of Venice had it effectively happened.
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Participants Convenors Subha Mukherji (also respondent) University of Cambridge [email protected] Rachel E. Holmes University of Cambridge [email protected] Tim Stuart-‐Buttle University of Cambridge [email protected] Elizabeth L. Swann University of Cambridge [email protected] Koji Yamamoto (also chair) University of Cambridge [email protected] Speakers, Respondents and Discussants Jennifer Bishop University of Cambridge N/A Maria Fusaro University of Exeter [email protected] Mary Laven University of Cambridge [email protected] Adrian Leonard University of Cambridge [email protected] Julie Sanders University of Newcastle [email protected] Jason Scott-‐Warren University of Cambridge [email protected] Quentin Skinner Queen Mary, University of London [email protected] Rebecca Tomlin Birkbeck, University of London [email protected] Andy Wood University of Durham [email protected]) Chairs Craig Muldrew University of Cambridge [email protected] Andrew Zurcher University of Cambridge [email protected] Delegates Adriana Campoy University of Cambridge N/A Min Ji Choi University of Cambridge [email protected] Christian Coppa University of Cambridge [email protected] Alexa Culshaw University of York N/A Jean David Eynard Queen Mary, University of London N/A Charlotte Fiehn University of Cambridge [email protected] Duncan Fraser University of Sussex [email protected] Mimi Goodall University of Cambridge [email protected] Jane Grogan University College Dublin N/A Liam Hayden University of Kent [email protected] Clare Jackson University of Cambridge [email protected] Philip Jenkins University of Cambridge [email protected] Zaneta Kusiack Queen Mary, University of London N/A
Jongsook Lee Seoul National University [email protected]
Hongwei Liu Zhongnan University, China [email protected]
Gabrielle Linnell University of Cambridge [email protected]
Liu Riuying University of Cambridge [email protected] Patrick McGhee University of Cambridge N/A
Lawrence Newport Royal Holloway, University of London [email protected]
David Parry University of Cambridge [email protected] Tessa Peres University of Cambridge [email protected] John Regan University of Cambridge [email protected] Elly Robson University of Cambridge [email protected] Suparna Roychoudhury Mount Holyoke College N/A Joseph Sterrett Aarhus University [email protected] Ted Tregear University of Cambridge [email protected] Gary Watt University of Warwick [email protected] Alice Wickenden University of Cambridge N/A
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