Author:
Callan Davies
Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture
University of Southampton
Dr Callan Davies is a literary, theatre, and cultural historian at the University of Roehampton.
Meet our team Guest PostsThis year we’ve had several chances to muse on the architectural and performance function of playing spaces like the Curtain or the Blackfriars—in part thanks to events we’ve held at these spaces and in part thanks to contributions that open up new aspects of their histories.
This post also features on Engendering the Stage, a research project with which we are in dialogue that explores women, gender, and performance in early modern Europe. Stay tuned for project blog posts from Engendering the Stage in the coming weeks!
Callan Davies explores some work-in-progress for a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America conference next spring for the “Tudor Performance: Contexts, Traditions, Afterlives” seminar, convened by Jessica Winston.
This post also appears on The National Archives blog.
On Saturday 21st, we enjoyed seeing the puffed-up knight Huanebango being struck down by a disembodied voice, entering a sixteenth-century smoking area, meeting the cosmopolitan neighbours of 1580s Shoreditch, and learning how to use a sword and buckler…
Just as writers in twenty-first century New York have opinions on how other people should behave in theatre spaces, so early modern London has its fair share of advice to spectators.