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AHRC-funded James Shirley Workshop, 21-23 September, 2009
All sessions will be held in the Old Common Room (OCR), Main Court, at St Catharine’s
College, Cambridge, unless otherwise stated.
Monday, 21 September, 2009
12.00-1.30 Registration
12.30-1.45 Lunch
1.45-2.00. Welcome and Introductions
Session 1 Chair: Professor David Bevington (University of Chicago)
2.00-2.30: Professor Helen Ostovich, Professor of English, McMaster University, “Styles of
Editing of 17th Century Plays: Best Advice for New Editors”.
2.30-3.00. Professor Eugene Giddens (with Dr Teresa Grant and Dr Barbara Ravelhofer),
Skinner-Young Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Anglia Ruskin University,
“Shirley Guidelines”.
3.00-3.20 Discussion and Questions
3.20-3.45 Tea
Session 2 Chair: Professor Tony Parr (University of the Western Cape)
3.45-4.05. Dr Barbara Ravelhofer, Reader in English, Durham University, “Editing Shirley’s
Masques”.
4.05-4.25. Dr Teresa Grant, Associate Professor of Renaissance Theatre, University of Warwick,
“Annotating The Witty Fair One”.
4.25-4.45. Dr Philip West, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Somerville College, Oxford,
“Editing Shirley’s Poetry”.
4.45-5.15. Discussion and Questions
7.00 Drinks (Fellows’ Dining Room, Churchill College, Cambridge. Taxis will be booked to leave
from outside Catz at 6.45, but Churchill is also an easy 15 minute walk if you’d like the exercise.)
7.30 Conference Dinner (Fellows’ Dining Room, Churchill College, Cambridge)
Tuesday, 22 September, 2009
9.15-9.30 Coffee
Session 3 Workshops
9.30-11.00
1) Six New Plays (led by Professor Chiaki Hanabusa, Keio University), OCR, Catz
2) Annotation (led by Dr Teresa Grant, University of Warwick), B1 Main Court, Catz
3) The Shirley Textual Essays (led by Professor Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University), The
Library, Chapel Court, Catz
11.00-11.30. Coffee break
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Session 4 Chair: Professor Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex)
11.30-11.50. Professor Scott Maisano, Assistant Professor of English, University of
Massachusetts, Boston, “Text and Contexts of St Patrick for Ireland: the implications for
commentary”.
11.50-12.10. Professor Robert Lublin, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, University of
Massachusetts, Boston, “Staging and Performance in St Patrick for Ireland”.
12.10-12.30. Discussion and Questions
12.30-12.50. Ms Laura Stalker, Associate Director, Huntington Library, “The Huntington Library:
Fellowships and the Shirley Collection.”
12.50-1.00. Discussion and Questions
1.00-2.00 Lunch
Session 5 Chair: Professor Helen Ostovich (McMaster University)
2.00-2.40. Professor Sir Brian Vickers FBA, Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Advanced
Studies, London and Principal Investigator, John Ford Project, Institute of English Studies,
University of London and Dr Marcus Dahl, Research Fellow, John Ford Project, Institute of
English Studies, University of London, “A new methodology for authorship identification in
anonymous and co-authored texts”.
2.40-3.00. Dr Lucy Munro, Senior Lecturer in English, Keele University, “Editing the Unedited”.
3.00-3.20. Discussion and Questions
3.20-3.45. Tea
Session 6 Chair: Professor Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham)
3.45-5.30. Discussion of Shirley Guidelines and Questions.
7.30 Dinner (Pizza Express, Jesus Lane, Cambridge)
Wednesday, 23 September, 2009
[10.00-12.00: Editorial Board/ General Editors’ Business Meeting (HEL201, Anglia Ruskin
University, East Road, Cambridge. Taxis will be booked to leave from outside Catz at 9.30 sharp)]
9.30-10.00 Coffee (OCR, Catz)
Session 7 Workshops
10.00-10.45. Dr Alison Searle (Anglia Ruskin University) and Ms Emily Collins (University of
Warwick): Hands-on Collation Workshop (The Library, Chapel Court, Catz)
11.00-11.45. Dr Eva Griffith (Durham University): “What's important about Shirley? Performance,
stage history, and that little bit of recusancy” (OCR, Catz)
12.30-2.00. Lunch and Farewell
* Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon have been specially set aside for accessing St Catharine’s
College Library’s remarkable Shirley collection. The librarian, Mrs Suzan Griffiths, has kindly agreed to allow
access at these times. Access could be granted at other times during the workshop if there is competition for
texts. Please let Alison Searle (alison.searle@anglia.ac.uk) know if, and when, you would like to consult the
collection at St Catharine’s College and she will liaise with the librarian to arrange access for you.