COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL : ‘STRANGE HABITS’ : VÊTEMENT, CLIMAT ET ENVIRONNEMENT CHEZ SHAKESPEARE ET SES CONTEMPORAINS

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Taking a cue from the current growth of ecocriticism and of material approaches in Shakespeare studies as well as in global Renaissance studies, this conference seeks to cross and confront those two critical trends by looking at one same object — clothing. Clothing can be explored from a variety of perspectives and calls for cross-disciplinary dialogue between social history, art history, dramatic history, fashion history, literature, sociology, and anthropology. The sheer variety of terms that can be used to designate clothing speaks to the far-reaching implications of dress. The now archaic term “habit,” referring at once to a “garment” or “apparel” and, beyond that, to a person’s outward appearance, was of common usage in the early modern period and was the word Shakespeare favoured in reference to clothing in his plays. While it can designate the dress or attire of a function or profession, it also introduces the notions of characteristic behaviour, natural mode of growth, and habitation (or habitat). The conference will focus on early modern dress such as it is represented on stage and the ways in which dress mediates England’s relation to foreign places and “climes.”

EN SAVOIR PLUS 

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 
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Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University)
Patricia Lennox (The Gallatin School, New York University)
Perry Mills (King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Sophie Jane Pitman (Aalto University)