CfPs - CALLS FOR PAPERS by M. A. Katritzky
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5th Annual GOTH Symposium, The Open University, 15... more Call for Papers (CFP DEADLINE: 28 Feb 2025 ),
5th Annual GOTH Symposium, The Open University, 15-16 May 2025:
Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, III.
The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presentations focusing on any aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, literature and visual culture, in two formats:
1. Postgraduate students only: 5-minute lightning papers on any aspects of human gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
2. Open call: 15-minute papers focusing on any aspects of gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
A link to the eventbrite page is here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-goth-annual-lectur... more A link to the eventbrite page is here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-goth-annual-lecture-angeliki-lymlymberopoulou-tickets-1030965644997?aff=oddtdtcreator
Angeliki Lymberopoulou:
The Liturgical Space of Heaven and Hell in Byzantine monumental art
The synergy between the physical space of the Byzantine church and the liturgy performed within it gives the Christian faithful a ‘taste’ of eternity. In the Byzantine church, the congregation effectively experiences Heaven, amply enhanced by monumental iconography, but also the gruesome alternatives that await those who sin in this life. The GOTH Lecture explores the function of Byzantine monumental art as a constant reminder of the importance of making ‘wise choices’ in life.
Speaker: Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Open University) is a Byzantine art historian and archaeologist specialising in socio-economic and political contexts of the artistic production of Venetian Crete (1211-1669). Principal Investigator for a Leverhulme project exploring Byzantine representation of Hell (published 2020), she has recently completed a prestigious Dumbarton Oakes Fellowship.
This is not a CFP. It is a final call to attend a symposium. CALLING ALL HUMBOLDTIANS. ALL-DAY SY... more This is not a CFP. It is a final call to attend a symposium. CALLING ALL HUMBOLDTIANS. ALL-DAY SYMPOSIUM, LONDON, FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2022: All former and current Humboldt Fellows and von Lynen Fellows are warmly invited to attend the AvH annual Research Symposium 2022 in London on Friday 16 September (program attached).
Register here (Humboldtians only): http://www.avh.org.uk/
Organisers: M A Katritzky (Open) & Ingo Dierking (Manchester).
Call for Papers
CFP DEADLINE: 30 November 2022
EVENT: 3rd Annual GOTH Symposium
DATE: Thu... more Call for Papers
CFP DEADLINE: 30 November 2022
EVENT: 3rd Annual GOTH Symposium
DATE: Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 May 2023
ORGANIZERS: The GOTH Committee
HOST: The GOTH Research Centre, OU
LOCATION: The Open University, Milton Keynes (live, on campus event)
THEME: Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture.
The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for three days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers focusing on the following aspects of gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture:
1. Gender and/or otherness in pre-1800 images of drama and literature, with topics including but not limited to:
• images by or relating to William Hogarth, and especially to his early career and book illustrations
• the anti-hero: Don Quixote and Hudibras illustrations at Littlecote House and elsewhere
• any aspect of the Littlecote House murals
(On the Littlecote House murals, see: https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/143837).
2. Gender and/or otherness in modern performance receptions of ancient Greek drama, possibly addressing topics including (but not limited to):
• new versions of rarely staged or fragmentary texts
• innovative or non-traditional modes of performance
• productions engaging with intersecting identities
3. Race, disability and/or otherness in early modern theatre, with topics including but not limited to:
• depictions of otherness in dramatic writing and staging practices
• historical receptions of race and disability
• the significance of gender in representations of race and disability
4. “Collectible Otherness” 1500-1800, with topics including but not limited to:
• Dwarfs; conjoined twins; the abnormally hirsute
• Genre: visual culture, drama and literature
• Contextualizing agency and Intersectionality of otherness: court, theatre, fairground, curiosity cabinet (Wunderkammer)
Please submit your proposal (300 words max) and academic bio (150 words max) on or before 30 November 2022, to m.a.katritzky@open.ac.uk & FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk. All presenters will be provided with accommodation (1 night). A limited number of travel bursaries will be awarded; if you wish to be considered please include a brief statement explaining what sum is required and why.
Inquiries on any aspect of the symposium can be emailed to FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk.
Further information on the event and registration is being posted on the GOTH website as it becomes available: http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/goth
On behalf of the Symposium organizers:
• GOTH Committee:
• Dr M A Katritzky – Director, GOTH & Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies
• Dr Christine Plastow – GOTH Web and Media Manager & Lecturer in Classical Studies
• Dr Molly Ziegler – Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies, Department of English & Creative Writing.
• & Guest Co-Organizer:
• Prof. Dr. Birgit Ulrike Münch, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Please check GOTH website for latest details: http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/goth
Books; co-authored books; edited works by M. A. Katritzky
In doing so ('in this upshot'), the bigger pictures of causes and consequences emerged: 'purposes... more In doing so ('in this upshot'), the bigger pictures of causes and consequences emerged: 'purposes mistook | Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this' could the stage 'truly deliver' (336-8). 3 Th ere are profound epistemological connections between early modern maps and theatre-both of which, in their own way, create physical representations and mental images of the world. Th is affi nity was explicitly acknowledged by early modern cartographers-among them perhaps most famously by Abraham Ortelius, whose highly infl uential and magnifi cent atlas-a collection of seventy maps-was published in Antwerp in May 1570 under the title Th eatrum Orbis Terrarum (A Th eatre of the Terrestrial World). Th eatre was a mode of display, presenting, narrating-and colourfully and tellingly imaging and imagining-the terrestrial world. Furthermore, early modern cartographers acknowledged the humanism and human dimension of their eff orts. By charting and portraying not just places, but also their
95,000 word thesis submitted for the Degree of DPhil, 1994-95 300 word abstract The research fiel... more 95,000 word thesis submitted for the Degree of DPhil, 1994-95 300 word abstract The research field addressed by this thesis is the commedia dell'arte and its iconography in the period preceding Callot's Balli di Sfessania engravings of c. 1621. Its main aim is to provide a broad overview of the surviving early pictures in order to contribute towards a more detailed understanding of the history of the commedia deH'arte in the opening decades of its existence, 1560-1620, by using late renaissance pictures as a documentary source.
Siro Ferrone: "M A Katritzky's study offers a detailed and thorough discussion of the iconography... more Siro Ferrone: "M A Katritzky's study offers a detailed and thorough discussion of the iconography of the commedia dell'arte, with the remarkable richness of documentary and critical references characteristic of this scholar, long noted as the author of excellent contributions in the field. The traditional theory, especially promoted by the great Italian historian Mario Apollonio, traced the origins of the masked theatre to the Magnifico-Zanni pair. In contrast, this study's central contribution, supported by textually, and above all iconographically-based investigations, is to identify the decisive genetic nucleus of the commedia dell'arte as the Magnifico-Zanni-Innamorata trio."
Well illustrated, accessibly presented, and drawing on a comprehensive range of historical docume... more Well illustrated, accessibly presented, and drawing on a comprehensive range of historical documents, including British, German and other European images, and literary as well as non-literary texts (many previously unconsidered in this context), this study offers the rst interdisciplinary gendered assessment of early modern performing itinerant healers (mountebanks, charlatans and quacksalvers). As Katritzky shows, quacks, male or female, combined, in widely varying proportions, three elements: the medical, the itinerant and the theatrical. Above all, they were performers. They used theatricality, in its widest possible sense, to attract customers and to promote and advertise their pharmaceuticals and health care services. Katritzky investigates here the performative aspects of quack marketing and healing methods, and their profound links with the rise of Europe's professional actresses, elds of enquiry which are only now beginning to attract signi cant attention from historians of medicine, economics or the theatre. Women, Medicine and Theatre also recovers women's roles in the economy of the itinerant quack stage. Women associated with mountebank troupes were medically and theatrically active at every level from major stage celebrities to humble urine sample collectors, but also included sedentary relatives, non-performing assistants, door-and bookkeepers, wardrobe mistresses, prop and costume loaners, landladies, spectators, patrons and clients. Katritzky's study of the whole range of women who supported the troupes contextualizes the activities of their male counterparts, and rehabilitates a broad spectrum of diversely occupied women. The strength of this title's research method lies in its comparative examination of documents that are generally examined from the point of view of either their performative or their medical aspects, by historians of, respectively, the theatre and medicine. Taken as a whole, these handbills, literary descriptions and other texts and images reveal the interactions between the main aspects of male and female quack activity: curing, selling and, above all, performing.
This book examines aspects of performance culture, and of the
practice of healthcare and medi... more This book examines aspects of performance culture, and of the
practice of healthcare and medicine, and some of the complex
interconnections between these two fundamental areas of human
endeavour. The published and unpublished early modern
documents it draws on include substantial and rarely cited
German language writings by three physicians. One has
achieved worldwide recognition as a physician, one is better
known as a traveller, and the third is little known even within the
German-speaking regions. This book focuses on how they
engaged with and recorded the theatrical and festival culture of
their time, and what their writings communicate about it in
general, and also about healing performers, the performance of
healing, and influences between healthcare and the stage, in its
widest sense.
Written with the support of specialist librarians at The Open University, this chapter of the OU ... more Written with the support of specialist librarians at The Open University, this chapter of the OU English Department's" Handbook to literary research" is designed to support two aspects fundamental to literary research at every level: identifying and locating appropriate primary and secondary texts, and checking and elucidating facts and points of detail. It is divided into four parts: 1. Finding and using libraries and collections 2. Finding and searching literary texts 3. Finding and searching reference resources and critical texts 4. Information ...
Early Theatre, Jan 1, 2008
M A Katritzky (guest editor), The commedia dell'arte: an introduction, Theatre Research International 23.2 (1998), 99-103 [&104-126; M I Aliverti, 127-132; J Marks, 133-141; Cesare Molinari, 142-151; Virginia Scott, 152-8; Bent Holm, 159-166; Michael Anderson, 167-173; G Beale & H Gayton, 174-8] Theatre research international 23 (2), Jan 1, 1998
Katritzky, MA (1999). Performing-arts iconography: tradition, techniques, and trends. In: Heck, T... more Katritzky, MA (1999). Performing-arts iconography: tradition, techniques, and trends. In: Heck, Thomas F. ed. Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, pp. 68–90. ... (Click here to request a copy from the OU Author.) ... With reference to case-studies, provides practical information on locating and interpreting visual imagery relating to early modern western performing arts.
Papers by M. A. Katritzky
Journal of the Bible and its Reception, 2024
This paper examines a groundbreaking innovation to medieval Easter plays: the creation of the ext... more This paper examines a groundbreaking innovation to medieval Easter plays: the creation of the extra-biblical merchant scene, in which the Marys purchase spices prior to their Visitatio Sepulchri. The patron of its earliest known representation was the female religious leader Uta von Kirchberg. An illuminated roundel in the Uta Codex she commissioned towards the end of her term as abbess of Niedermünster (1002-25), depicts the Holy women purchasing spices from a spice merchant. Until the twelfth century, this remained the only representation of an Easter merchant scene, visual or textual. The only textual Easter merchant scene predating the thirteenth century is within the twelfth-century Latin/Catalan Ludus Paschalis of Vic Cathedral, near Barcelona, a highly influential Easter text whose transnational impact has been traced in numerous later Easter texts across Europe, including many with merchant scenes. Around 2000, musicologists David Wulstan and Constant Mews suggested the renowned composer and poet Heloise (c. 1090s-1164) as its author. Widely accepted by musicologists, their attribution's significance for the female impact on the merchant scene is barely acknowledged. Here, I ask: 'how did women influence the creation, promotion and development of the merchant scene's visual, textual and performative manifestations?' By repeatedly reattributing responsibility for decisive input into the development of the merchant scene from anonymous male scribes to identified female religious leaders, my interdisciplinary analysis moves women to the centre of this creative process.
The Conversation, unpaginated. https://theconversation.com/how-i-found-potential-lost-works-of-the-great-british-painter-william-hogarth-new-research-158906
Duits, Rembrandt ed. The Art of the Poor: The Aesthetic Material Culture of the Lower Classes in Europe, 1300–1600. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 185–198. , 2020
Music in Art 44, pp. 83-104.
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CfPs - CALLS FOR PAPERS by M. A. Katritzky
5th Annual GOTH Symposium, The Open University, 15-16 May 2025:
Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, III.
The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presentations focusing on any aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, literature and visual culture, in two formats:
1. Postgraduate students only: 5-minute lightning papers on any aspects of human gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
2. Open call: 15-minute papers focusing on any aspects of gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
Angeliki Lymberopoulou:
The Liturgical Space of Heaven and Hell in Byzantine monumental art
The synergy between the physical space of the Byzantine church and the liturgy performed within it gives the Christian faithful a ‘taste’ of eternity. In the Byzantine church, the congregation effectively experiences Heaven, amply enhanced by monumental iconography, but also the gruesome alternatives that await those who sin in this life. The GOTH Lecture explores the function of Byzantine monumental art as a constant reminder of the importance of making ‘wise choices’ in life.
Speaker: Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Open University) is a Byzantine art historian and archaeologist specialising in socio-economic and political contexts of the artistic production of Venetian Crete (1211-1669). Principal Investigator for a Leverhulme project exploring Byzantine representation of Hell (published 2020), she has recently completed a prestigious Dumbarton Oakes Fellowship.
Register here (Humboldtians only): http://www.avh.org.uk/
Organisers: M A Katritzky (Open) & Ingo Dierking (Manchester).
CFP DEADLINE: 30 November 2022
EVENT: 3rd Annual GOTH Symposium
DATE: Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 May 2023
ORGANIZERS: The GOTH Committee
HOST: The GOTH Research Centre, OU
LOCATION: The Open University, Milton Keynes (live, on campus event)
THEME: Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture.
The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for three days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers focusing on the following aspects of gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture:
1. Gender and/or otherness in pre-1800 images of drama and literature, with topics including but not limited to:
• images by or relating to William Hogarth, and especially to his early career and book illustrations
• the anti-hero: Don Quixote and Hudibras illustrations at Littlecote House and elsewhere
• any aspect of the Littlecote House murals
(On the Littlecote House murals, see: https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/143837).
2. Gender and/or otherness in modern performance receptions of ancient Greek drama, possibly addressing topics including (but not limited to):
• new versions of rarely staged or fragmentary texts
• innovative or non-traditional modes of performance
• productions engaging with intersecting identities
3. Race, disability and/or otherness in early modern theatre, with topics including but not limited to:
• depictions of otherness in dramatic writing and staging practices
• historical receptions of race and disability
• the significance of gender in representations of race and disability
4. “Collectible Otherness” 1500-1800, with topics including but not limited to:
• Dwarfs; conjoined twins; the abnormally hirsute
• Genre: visual culture, drama and literature
• Contextualizing agency and Intersectionality of otherness: court, theatre, fairground, curiosity cabinet (Wunderkammer)
Please submit your proposal (300 words max) and academic bio (150 words max) on or before 30 November 2022, to m.a.katritzky@open.ac.uk & FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk. All presenters will be provided with accommodation (1 night). A limited number of travel bursaries will be awarded; if you wish to be considered please include a brief statement explaining what sum is required and why.
Inquiries on any aspect of the symposium can be emailed to FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk.
Further information on the event and registration is being posted on the GOTH website as it becomes available: http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/goth
On behalf of the Symposium organizers:
• GOTH Committee:
• Dr M A Katritzky – Director, GOTH & Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies
• Dr Christine Plastow – GOTH Web and Media Manager & Lecturer in Classical Studies
• Dr Molly Ziegler – Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies, Department of English & Creative Writing.
• & Guest Co-Organizer:
• Prof. Dr. Birgit Ulrike Münch, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Please check GOTH website for latest details: http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/goth
Books; co-authored books; edited works by M. A. Katritzky
practice of healthcare and medicine, and some of the complex
interconnections between these two fundamental areas of human
endeavour. The published and unpublished early modern
documents it draws on include substantial and rarely cited
German language writings by three physicians. One has
achieved worldwide recognition as a physician, one is better
known as a traveller, and the third is little known even within the
German-speaking regions. This book focuses on how they
engaged with and recorded the theatrical and festival culture of
their time, and what their writings communicate about it in
general, and also about healing performers, the performance of
healing, and influences between healthcare and the stage, in its
widest sense.
Papers by M. A. Katritzky
5th Annual GOTH Symposium, The Open University, 15-16 May 2025:
Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, III.
The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presentations focusing on any aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, literature and visual culture, in two formats:
1. Postgraduate students only: 5-minute lightning papers on any aspects of human gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
2. Open call: 15-minute papers focusing on any aspects of gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
Angeliki Lymberopoulou:
The Liturgical Space of Heaven and Hell in Byzantine monumental art
The synergy between the physical space of the Byzantine church and the liturgy performed within it gives the Christian faithful a ‘taste’ of eternity. In the Byzantine church, the congregation effectively experiences Heaven, amply enhanced by monumental iconography, but also the gruesome alternatives that await those who sin in this life. The GOTH Lecture explores the function of Byzantine monumental art as a constant reminder of the importance of making ‘wise choices’ in life.
Speaker: Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Open University) is a Byzantine art historian and archaeologist specialising in socio-economic and political contexts of the artistic production of Venetian Crete (1211-1669). Principal Investigator for a Leverhulme project exploring Byzantine representation of Hell (published 2020), she has recently completed a prestigious Dumbarton Oakes Fellowship.
Register here (Humboldtians only): http://www.avh.org.uk/
Organisers: M A Katritzky (Open) & Ingo Dierking (Manchester).
CFP DEADLINE: 30 November 2022
EVENT: 3rd Annual GOTH Symposium
DATE: Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 May 2023
ORGANIZERS: The GOTH Committee
HOST: The GOTH Research Centre, OU
LOCATION: The Open University, Milton Keynes (live, on campus event)
THEME: Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture.
The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for three days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers focusing on the following aspects of gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture:
1. Gender and/or otherness in pre-1800 images of drama and literature, with topics including but not limited to:
• images by or relating to William Hogarth, and especially to his early career and book illustrations
• the anti-hero: Don Quixote and Hudibras illustrations at Littlecote House and elsewhere
• any aspect of the Littlecote House murals
(On the Littlecote House murals, see: https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/143837).
2. Gender and/or otherness in modern performance receptions of ancient Greek drama, possibly addressing topics including (but not limited to):
• new versions of rarely staged or fragmentary texts
• innovative or non-traditional modes of performance
• productions engaging with intersecting identities
3. Race, disability and/or otherness in early modern theatre, with topics including but not limited to:
• depictions of otherness in dramatic writing and staging practices
• historical receptions of race and disability
• the significance of gender in representations of race and disability
4. “Collectible Otherness” 1500-1800, with topics including but not limited to:
• Dwarfs; conjoined twins; the abnormally hirsute
• Genre: visual culture, drama and literature
• Contextualizing agency and Intersectionality of otherness: court, theatre, fairground, curiosity cabinet (Wunderkammer)
Please submit your proposal (300 words max) and academic bio (150 words max) on or before 30 November 2022, to m.a.katritzky@open.ac.uk & FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk. All presenters will be provided with accommodation (1 night). A limited number of travel bursaries will be awarded; if you wish to be considered please include a brief statement explaining what sum is required and why.
Inquiries on any aspect of the symposium can be emailed to FASS-GOTH-Admin@open.ac.uk.
Further information on the event and registration is being posted on the GOTH website as it becomes available: http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/goth
On behalf of the Symposium organizers:
• GOTH Committee:
• Dr M A Katritzky – Director, GOTH & Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies
• Dr Christine Plastow – GOTH Web and Media Manager & Lecturer in Classical Studies
• Dr Molly Ziegler – Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies, Department of English & Creative Writing.
• & Guest Co-Organizer:
• Prof. Dr. Birgit Ulrike Münch, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Please check GOTH website for latest details: http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/goth
practice of healthcare and medicine, and some of the complex
interconnections between these two fundamental areas of human
endeavour. The published and unpublished early modern
documents it draws on include substantial and rarely cited
German language writings by three physicians. One has
achieved worldwide recognition as a physician, one is better
known as a traveller, and the third is little known even within the
German-speaking regions. This book focuses on how they
engaged with and recorded the theatrical and festival culture of
their time, and what their writings communicate about it in
general, and also about healing performers, the performance of
healing, and influences between healthcare and the stage, in its
widest sense.
This article progresses long-term researches on Hogarth and book history, the iconography of the skimmington and transnational receptions of Don Quixote, by introducing a substantial new group of images potentially illuminating Hogarth's lost activities as a young painter, before he turned 30 in 1727. Astoundingly, no previous research-based study of them exists. Unknown to Hogarth specialists and dismissed by art historians, they are in the painted room at Littlecote House. Within a complex decorative scheme broadly referencing themes of human folly and the cabinet of curiosities, two walls feature floor to ceiling composite murals uniting numerous episodes from the publications most significant for Hogarth's early career as a book illustrator: Cervantes' Don Quixote and its most successful English derivation, Samuel Butler's Hudibras. Butler's book-length poem is exceptionally significant: book-historically for its key role in copyright legislation and eighteenth-century British book illustration; art-historically for its central role in the early career of Hogarth, who published two sets of engravings illustrating Hudibras in 1726. Local historians attribute the Littlecote murals to unidentified amateur Dutch painters, working in the 1660s (when Hudibras was first published). Archive-based evidence first presented here confirms their dating not to the 1660s but the 1720s and supports Hogarth's presence at Littlecote House around 1724. This work is heavily indebted to the exemplary scholarship of two landmark publications of 2016, Elizabeth Einberg's authoritative catalogue of Hogarth's paintings (all post-1726) and Peter Black's ground- -breaking exploration of Hogarth and house decoration. I here re-visit Hogarth's early practice of book illustration and house decoration with reference to a canon of pre-1800 Hudibras images, newly enlarged by situating the substantial Littlecote Hudibras mural within this context and its associated visual, literary and book historical traditions. With reference to the new images and evidence first presented here, I ask: is Littlecote's painted room a rightly neglected pastiche? Or does it deserve closer scholarly attention? Perhaps even as an exceptional unrecognized British art treasure? Should Hogarth specialists now evaluate an entirely new possibility: whether the challenging pre-1727 gap in Hogarth's early career as a painter can be addressed by identifying his earliest paintings at Littlecote House?
Keywords: "Bal des Ardents", "Thomas of Woodstock", "Richard II", medieval masqueraders, mumming, masque, play-within-a-play, William Shakespeare, John Marston, the Scots’ Mine play or ‘The (Scottish) silver mine’ (lost play of 1608), Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy, meta-theatrical court festival massacres.
1. Lascombes, André, ‘Progressive Elaboration of a Spectacular Poetics for Late Medieval Drama’
2. Katritzky, Peg, ‘The Bal des Ardents (1393): Wild Men in Medieval Festival Culture’
3. Martín, Josefa Fernández, ‘Re-Discovering the Medieval English Stage for the Spanish Audience’
4. Palla, Maria José, ‘Les traditions de la perfomance théâtrale au Portugal’