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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