2007 Symposium of the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies
Neo-Latin Drama
Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th September 2007
at Clare College, Cambridge
Speakers
- Elizabeth Archibald (University of Bristol), 'The Comoedia sine Nomine:
a C14th Latin dramatic version of the medieval Flight from Incest romance'.
- Joaquín Pascual Barea (University of Cádiz), 'School Progymnasmata
and Latin Drama: thesis, refutatio, confirmatio and laus in the «Dialogue on the Conception of
Our Lady» by the Spanish Jesuit Bartholomaeus Bravo (1578)'.
- Jan Bloemendal (University of Amsterdam and Huygens Institute (KNAW) The Hague),
'Neo-Latin drama and drama in the vernacular: similarities, dissimilarities and possible relations'
- Elie Borza (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve), 'The
Translation of Greek Tragedies: the Example of Alessandro Pazzi de' Medici'.
- Giacomo Cardinali (Pontificio Seminario Romano Maggiore), 'Présence des
textes théâtraux classiques dans les cursus studiorum des collèges français
à la Renaissance'.
- Jeanine De Landtsheer (Leuven), 'St Catherine play of Alexandria, an unedited
late-16th century play by Schenkelius'.
- Tania Demetriou (Trinity College, Cambridge), 'Gager's Ulysses Redux and
the reception of Homer'.
- Arthur Eyffinger (Huygens Institute, The Hague), 'The Unacknowledged Legislators
of Mankind: Greek playwrights as moral guidance for Grotius' social philosophy'.
- Carine Ferradou (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille), 'George
Buchanan's sacred tragedies Baptistes sive Calumnia (1577) and Jephthes sive Votum (1554):
what place for human kind in the universe?'.
- Heidrun Führer (University of Lund), 'A «total work of art» in
Baroque style: Jacob Balde's Jesuit tragedy Jephtias (1654)'.
- Anna Holland (St John's College, Oxford), 'Speaking the Language of the Passions:
Euripides, Seneca, Buchanan and La Péruse'.
- Elisabeth Klecker (Universität Wien), 'Undramatic drama or how to succeed
on the baroque stage: Nicolaus Avancini, Pietas victrix (Vienna 1659) and Alessandro Donati,
Constantinus Romae liberator (Rome 1640)'.
- Sarah Knight (University of Leicester), 'Robert Burton and academic drama'.
- Judi Loach (Cardiff University), 'Performing in Latin in Jesuit-run colleges in
C17th France: why, and with what consequences?'.
- Howard Norland (University of Nebraska), 'Foxe's Apocalyptic Comedy, Christus Triumphans'.
- Veronika Coroleu Oberparleiter (Universität Salzburg), 'Social constraint
and criticism: Simon Rettenpacher's «Votorum discordia» (1678)'.
- Olivier Pédeflous (Université Paris-IV Sorbonne), 'Ravisius Textor's
Scholarly Drama and Its Links to Pedagogical Literature in Early Modern France'.
- Cressida Ryan (Nottingham University), 'Latin Language and Latin Culture in
Ruggle's Ignoramus'.
- Piotr Urbanski (University of Szczecin), 'Remarks on the libretto David
musicus by Alessandro Donatti'.
- Michiel Verweij (Royal Library of Belgium), 'Cornelius Schonaeus and Terentian
comedy: the Terentius Christianus at work'.
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