Thomas Nashe and His Contemporaries (symposium)

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This was a fall 2017 symposium.

Co-sponsored with “The Thomas Nashe Project” funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), this symposium explores the works and significance of Thomas Nashe (1567 – c.1600), an innovative writer whose influence on prose extends well beyond his own period. Nashe was also a significant dramatist, collaborating with Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare, while his bitter quarrel with the humanist educator, Gabriel Harvey, and his part in the Marprelate controversy expanded the possibilities of English invective and satire. Showcasing the Folger’s exceptional manuscript and print collection of his writings, the symposium will help recover Nashe and his world—especially London, Cambridge, and Great Yarmouth. Session topics will include geographies, oral/aural culture, genres, drama, popular culture, and pamphlets; two dozen participants with relevant projects will be welcomed to join the conversation.

Organizers: Professors Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University), Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield), Joseph Black (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and Kate De Rycker (Newcastle University) represent “The Thomas Nashe Project,” which will produce a new, multi-volume edition of Nashe’s works for Oxford University Press. They have developed this symposium in collaboration with Drs. Kathleen Lynch and Owen Williams of the Folger Institute.

Schedule

Thursday, 7 September 2017

5:30

Opening Reception (Founders Room)

7:00

Prose, Drama, and Orality in the 1590s (Board Room)

Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex

Jennifer Richards, Newcastle University

Friday, 8 September 2017

9:00

Coffee and Pastries (Folger Board Room)

9:30

Nashe’s Texts

Alan Stewart, Columbia University

Andrew Fleck, University of Texas, El Paso

11:00

Break

11:30

Nashe’s Geographies

Kristen Bennett, Stonehill College

Steven Mentz, St. John’s University

1:00

Lunch (on your own)

2:00

Display of Nashe materials held in the Folger (optional; Deck B seminar room)

3:00

Nashe and Oral / Aural Culture / Rhetoric

Heidi Brayman, University of California, Riverside

Robert Hornback, Oglethorpe University

Saturday, 9 September 2017

9:00

Coffee and Pastries (Folger Board Room)

9:30

Nashe’s Genres

Reid Barbour, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Samuel Fallon, Wesleyan University

11:00

Break

11:30

Nashe and Drama

Joan Pong Linton, Indiana University

Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1:00

Lunch (on your own)

2:00

Nashe and Popular Pamphleteering

Jennifer Andersen, California State University, San Bernardino

Ian Moulton, Arizona State University

3:30

Tea

4:00

Closing Remarks and Discussion

David Scott Kastan, Yale University

5:00

Closing Reception (Founders Room)