1603:

The Historical and Cultural Consequences of the Accession of James I

Plenary Speakers:

John Kerrigan (St John's, Cambridge), 'The Romans in Britain, 1603-14'

Curtis Perry (Yale, USA), 'Literature and the Discourse of Favouritism'

Jenny Wormald (St Hilda's, Oxford), 'The Impact of the Union of the Crowns on Scotland'

Conrad Russell, '1603: The End of National Sovereignty in England'

Accepted Papers

Tim Amos (St Catherine's, Cambridge), 'By the Grace of God: Providence, Plague and the Jacobean Accession'

Matthew Baynham (Bishop Grosseteste College), ' "Twice done and then done double": Catholic Recusancy and the Duplicitous Hostess in Shakespeare's Macbeth'

Sandra Bell (New Brunswick, Canada), ' "No Scot, no English now": The Literary and Cultural Responses to James's Policies on the Union of 1603'

Martyn Bennett (Nottingham Trent), 'James VI and I and the Fringes of the Enlarged Kingdom'

Carol Blessing (Point Loma Nazarene University, CA, USA), 'Allusions to Mary Stuart in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama'

Terri Bourus (Indiana, USA), ' "For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men": The Licensing of the King's Men and the Printing of Q1 and Q2 of Hamlet'

John Butler (Manitoba, Canada), 'In vino veritas? The Table-Talk of King James I'

Lesel Dawson (Bristol), ' "Even kings are private men": The Shifting Language of Complaint under Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI'

Noam Flinker (Haifa, Israel), 'Tension Between the Odyssean Art of Shakespeare's Prospero and James I on Witchcraft, Magic and Theatre'

Jessica Forbes (Columbia, NY, USA), 'Disguising Transition: Healing Rulers and Diseased Courts on the Early Stuart Stage'

George Gömöri (Darwin, Cambridge), 'A Wedding to Be Remembered: The Literary Reception of Princess Elizabeth's Wedding with Frederick of Pfalz'

Huw Griffiths (Leeds), ' "It is not since as then": Ruins and History in "Prince Henry's Barriers" '

Kyna Hamill (Tufts, USA), 'Wielding her Weapons: The Power of the Sword on and off the Jacobean Stage'

Tracey Hill (Bath Spa), ' "Representing the awefull authoritie of soueraigne Maiestie": The Triumphs of Reunited Britannia, Anthony Munday's First Jacobean Lord Mayor's Show'

Peter Hinds (Birmingham), 'At God's Disposition: Representing James VI and I during the Exclusion Crisis, 1679-1682'

Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam), 'Brutus Gives Way to Scota: from Elizabethan Myths of Origin to Jacobean Ones'

Daniel Hulsebosch (St Louis, USA), 'The English Constitution and the Expanding Empire: Sir Edward Coke's British Jurisprudence'

Peter Hyland (Huron, Canada), ' "Gunpowder i' th' Court": Subversive Icons in The Revenger's Tragedy'

Maureen King (Alberta, Canada), 'The Essex Myth in Jacobean England'

Sue Knott (Birmingham), ' "A lawful good king": Dangerous Politics in King Lear and Sejanus'

Jessica Malay (Kent), 'Aemilia Lanyer's "Dowager of All" Alternative to the Court of James I'

Anne McLaren (Liverpool), 'Monogamy, Polygamy and the True State: James I's Rhetoric of Empire'

Clare McManus (Queen's, Belfast), 'Anna of Denmark, Royal Visits and Drunken Walkabouts: Christian IV's Entertainment at Theobalds (1606)'

Lesley Mickel (Northumbria), 'The King's New Clothes: Fashion, Power and the Transition from Elizabethan to Jacobean Monarchy'

Rebecca Nesvet (Aberystwyth), 'From England's Troy to "Rule in Unity": Trojan War and English Destiny in Shakespeare's Henry VI and Troilus and Cressida'

Diana Newton, 'The Impact of James I's Accession on the North-East of England'

Robert O'Connor (Australia), 'The Trim of the Old Times: Contemporary Responses to the Accession of James I'

Graham Parry (York), 'William Warner's Albion's England'

Kevin Quarmby (King's College, London), 'Politics and Repertory: James VI and I and the "Disguised Ruler" Plays'

Michael J. Redmond, (Palermo), '(Up)staging Power: Parodies of the Jacobean Disguised Duke Play'

Frauke Reitemeier (Goettingen), ' "There are verie few Englishmen that know, bicause we want the books": On English Descriptions of Scotland Before and After 1603'

Jane Rickard (Warwick), 'The Writer-King in England'

Philip Schwyzer (Exeter), 'The Jacobean Union Controversy and King Lear'

Aspasia Velissariou (Athens, Greece), 'Female Revengers and Tyrannicide in Beaumont's and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy'

Bob White (Western Australia), 'Troilus and Cressida and the Earl of Essex'

Arthur Williamson (Sacramento, CA, USA), 'Radical Britain: David Hume of Godscroft and the Challenge to the Jacobean British Vision'


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