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Shakespeare Company, English Shakespeare Company) and James Evans (Bell Shakespeare Company) at the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association\u2019s conference \u2018Shakespeare and the Emotions\u2019 [insert link to video footage]. A paper on ‘Tragedy and the State of Ceremony: Macbeth at the Department\u2019s symposium with Simon Critchley (July 2013) and a plenary lecture at Aarhus University (May 2014) continue this work.<\/p>\n
Rituals and ceremonies associated with witchcraft were considered in the \u2018Capturing Witches\u2019 conference of 2012 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first Pendle Witch trial in Lancaster in 1612.\u00a0 Read more on the Centre for Transcultural Writing<\/a> website.<\/p>\n The conference included a rehearsed reading of Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome\u2019s play The Late Lancashire Witches (1634) in Lancaster Castle. Papers from the conference are published in a special issue of the journal Preternature<\/a>.<\/p>\n A series of interdisciplinary seminars using theoretical models developed in social anthropology, and through practical work. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n A practical workshop on the power of ceremony presented by Findlay and Oakley-Brown at the British Shakespeare Association \u2018Global Shakespeares\u2019 conference at King\u2019s College, London (2009) Read more<\/a><\/p>\n From 1994 to 2000 Alison Findlay,\u00a0Stephanie Hodgson-Wright and Gweno Williams co-directed a research project designed to stage\u00a0drama\u00a0by ‘Shakespeare’s sisters’, early modern female playwrights whose work was deemed ‘unperformed, not designed for performance’ and therefore ‘unperformable’. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ceremony in Macbeth In November 2012 Findlay led a workshop with the actors Andrew Jarvis (Royal Shakespeare Company, English Shakespeare Company) and James Evans (Bell Shakespeare Company) at the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association\u2019s conference \u2018Shakespeare and the Emotions\u2019 … Continue reading Re-opening Ceremony and Ritual<\/h2>\n
Ceremony, Performance and Practice in Shakespearean Drama<\/h2>\n
Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700<\/h2>\n