Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies is hosting a one-day colloquium (on the 12th June 2024) intended to bring together postgraduate students working on Shakespeare and early modern drama.

They welcome proposals for 20-minute research papers, 5-minute lightning talks and creative writing pieces.

Papers may consider, but are not limited to:

• Shakespearean adaptation / appropriation / translation (including dramatic, musical and fictional adaptations)
• Shakespeare/early modern drama in (early modern/modern-day) performance
• Early modern theatre practices
• Materiality: costuming, props, playing spaces, print culture
• Dramatic genres/form
• New perspectives on early modern drama / drama and critical theory
• Gender and sexuality
• Race and colonisation
• Disability and embodiment
• Early modern drama and society: politics, economics, religion, environment, colonisation
• Drama and early modern thought: religion, science, historiography

Please see https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog/cfp-page-performance-and-culture for the CFP and submission instructions.