On Monday, February 8, the Department of English Language and Literature is going to host a lecture by Dr. Gabriel Lonsberry at 18:00-19:00.<\/p>\n
The lecture is open to the public and will take place via Zoom.
\nTo request the event link, please contact to the department.<\/p>\n
Gabriel Lonsberry
\nThe Tempest and The Winter\u2019s Tale on the Contested Court Stage, 1611\u201312<\/p>\n
When, during the 1611\u201312 entertainment season, Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest and The Winter\u2019s Tale were staged for King James I and his court, they would have waded into the middle of an escalating, mythmaking war between the King and his ideologically adversarial son, Prince Henry. The preceding year had seen Henry usurp the court stage\u2019s legitimizing power, mounting a series of masques and spectacles that grew his chivalric cult and promoted militant Protestant values detested by his father. 1611\u201312, then, was James\u2019s opportunity to reestablish his supremacy: not only would Henry be excluded from the season\u2019s sole masque and centerpiece, Ben Jonson\u2019s Love Restored, but Jonson would explicitly condemn all challenges to the royally approved mythology and demonstrate the King\u2019s absolute authority over the masquing space. In response, Henry turned to alternative means of advancing his cause, while James negotiated a Catholic match that would deal a crushing blow to his son\u2019s supporters. These are the circumstances in which the Stuart court first saw The Tempest and The Winter\u2019s Tale, and this presentation argues that viewers could not have helped but relate the plays\u2019 interrogations of spectacle and royal authority to their present political moment.<\/p>\n
Gabriel Lonsberry is a Lecturer at Purdue University in the US. His dissertation, titled The King, the Prince, and Shakespeare: Competing for Control of the Stuart Court Stage, puts Shakespeare\u2019s late plays into dialogue with the court entertainments and factional tensions coinciding with Prince Henry Frederick\u2019s short life. His essay, \u201c\u2018The purchase is to make men glorious\u2019: Pericles on the Stuart Court Stage,\u201d will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Another essay, \u201cPrince Henry\u2019s Investiture on the Stuart Court Stage,\u201d will appear in the edited collection, Reconceptualizing Renaissance Performance: Beyond the Public Stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Monday, February 8, the Department of English Language and Literature is going to host a lecture by Dr. Gabriel Lonsberry at 18:00-19:00. The lecture is open to the public and will take place via Zoom. To request the event link, please contact to the department. Gabriel Lonsberry The Tempest [\u2026] <\/p>\n