Theta VIII – Seeing Is Believing – Or Is It?

Theta VIII – Seeing Is Believing – Or Is It?

Articles issus de la Xe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 5-8 septembre 2007

Textes réunis par André Lascombes et Richard HillmanPublié le 01/09/2009 – Scène européenne, « Theta »

The terms defining the thematic framework of this volume direct attention to the essential experience of theatrical illusion-making, as well as to the question of religious belief, which was central to the theatre of the Middle Ages and continued to figure well into the Renaissance in varying forms.

Theta XIII – Forms of the Supernatural on Stage: Evolution, Mutations

Theta XIII – Forms of the Supernatural on Stage: Evolution, Mutations

Articles issus de la XVe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 7-8 septembre 2017 Textes réunis par Richard HillmanPublié le 09/07/2018 – Scène européenne, « Theta » The subject of this volume presents a particular historical interest in the English context, given the impact of the religious reforms (and counter-reforms) over the sixteenth century. On the…

Theta XII – Folly’s Family, Folly’s Children

Theta XII – Folly’s Family, Folly’s Children

Articles issus de la XIVe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 3-4 septembre 2015

Textes réunis par Richard HillmanPublié le 01/07/2016 – Scène européenne, « Theta »

In the third of a series of Round Tables on Tudor Theatre dedicated to different aspects of folly, participants addressed the associations and (af)filiations of pertinent characters, or aspects of the motif itself, in works ranging from medieval morality plays to the comedies of Ben Jonson.

Theta XI – The Discourses of Folly, Onstage and Off

Theta XI – The Discourses of Folly, Onstage and Off

Articles issus de la XIIIe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 5-6 septembre 2013

Textes réunis par Richard HillmanPublié le 01/09/2014 – Scène européenne, « Theta »

The approach chosen for the second of three Round Tables on Tudor Theatre concerned with folly is founded, most fundamentally, on the recorded usages in the early modern period of the terms “folly” and “madness”, both of which could carry varying degrees of intensity and either anticipate or blur the distinctions established in modern English between them.

Theta X – Folly and Politics

Theta X – Folly and Politics

Articles issus de la XIIe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 7-9 septembre 2011

Textes réunis par Richard Hillman et Pauline Ruberry-BlancPublié le 01/04/2013 – Scène européenne, « Theta »

Folly and Politics

For this first of a three-part series of Round Tables on Tudor Theatre focused on the staging and function of folly in the medieval and early modern English theatre, participants studied the relations between folly, or madness, in different forms, and politics, also variously understood.

Theta IX – Ideologies in Debate: Spectacle and Representation in Tudor England

Theta IX – Ideologies in Debate: Spectacle and Representation in Tudor England

Articles issus de la XIe Table Ronde sur le Théâtre Tudor, Tours, les 9-11 septembre 2009

Textes réunis par André Lascombes, Richard Hillman et Pauline Ruberry-BlancPublié le 01/05/2011 – Scène européenne, « Theta »

Contributors explore a wide variety of dramatic texts ranging chronologically from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth, illustrating how the concept of ideology may be applied to several domains: politics, of course, but also religion and relations between the sexes.

Theta VIII(a) – Numéro Spécial ‘Everyman’ Studies

Theta VIII(a) – Numéro Spécial ‘Everyman’ Studies

Articles issus des Journées d’études sur Everyman, Tours, 10-11 octobre 2008

Textes réunis par Richard HillmanPublié le 12/12/2008 – Scène européenne, « Theta »

Seizing the occasion of the appearance of Everyman (for the second time) on the programme of the French Agrégation programme in English, members of the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (Université de Tours/CNRS) invited an international panel of specialists to offer new perspectives on the most widely known, edited and discussed specimen of medieval English drama.