The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare and Political Theology event consists of two related events, both of which highlight current thought on political theology in Shakespeare.
The first day, held in the Jane Seymour Room at Hampton Court Palace, dovetails into two themes: Crown and Crowd. The Crown section begins at 10 am and features talks on coronation rituals and absent kings by Charles Farris, Anthony Musson and Michael Hattaway. The crowd section begins at 2 pm with talks by Sam Gilchrist Hall, Edel Lamb, Sally Barnden and Yan Brailowsky. The day also features musical interludes by ARCHIcantiores performing ‘royal’ and ‘crowd’ music as well as ballads. Ticket price includes tea, coffee and a packed lunch.
The second day at Garrick’s Temple (a short walk from Hampton Court and Hampton Station) continues the symposia on Shakespeare in philosophy with a day on the seminal political theologian Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963). Speakers include Jennifer Rust, Lynsey McCullough, Guillaume Foulquié, Adam Sitze, Stuart Elden and Rachel Eisendrath. Tea, coffee and lunch are included in the ticket price.
Ticket prices are £20 for one day or £30 for both days.This event is organised by Kingston Shakespeare together with Historic Royal Palaces, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, the Shakespeare and Philosophy project.
Book tickets at thehollowcrown.eventbrite.ac.uk.
Here is the provisional programme:
Friday June 21:
CROWN AND CROWD
Hampton Court Palace: Jane Seymour Room
CROWN
10.00: Charles Farris (Historic Royal Palaces):
‘“Well worth the seeing’: The Ritual and Material Culture
of Medieval and Tudor Coronations’
10.45: Musical Interlude: ARCHIcantiores
11.00: Anthony Musson (Historic Royal Palaces):
‘The Hollow Crown and the Empty Throne:
Absent kings and absence of kingship in Shakespeare’s historical plays’
11.45: Coffee
12.15: Michael Hattaway (University of Sheffield):
‘Ritual and Reification: Crowning in Richard II’
13.00: Lunch
CROWD
14.00: Sam Gilchrist Hall (Károli Gáspár University/ Kingston University):
‘”But I doubt not the people”: Shakespeare and Thomas Müntzer’
14.45: Musical Interlude: ARCHIcantiores
15.00: Edel Lamb (Queen’s University Belfast):
‘Shakespeare and the Crowd at Astor Place, 1849’
15.45: Tea
16.15: Sally Barnden (King’s College London):
‘Staging Shakespeare’s histories for Adelaide and Victoria’
17.00: Musical Interlude: ARCHIcantiores
17.15: Yan Brailowsky (Université Paris Nanterre):
‘Crowds and authority in Coriolanus’
Saturday June 22:
ERNST KANTOROWICZ AND SHAKESPEARE
Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare: Hampton
10.00: Jennifer Rust (Saint Louis University):
‘Kantorowicz’s Mystical Body and Bottom’s Dream:
Political Theology to Political Aesthetics in A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
11.00: Coffee
11.30: Lynsey McCullough (Coventry University):
‘Effigial Bodies: Dignitas and the Death of Shakespeare’s Kings’
12.15: Guillaume Foulquié (Worcester University):
‘Towards the Decapitation of the King’s Two Biopolitical Bodies:
Performing Richard II in 2019 England’
13.00: Lunch
14.30: Adam Sitze (Amherst College):
‘Conscience is the Essence of the Scholar’s “Office”’
15.15: Stuart Elden (Warwick University):
‘Kantorowicz, Shakespeare and the Oath’
16.00: Tea
16.30: António Bento (University of Beira Interior):
‘From the Late Medieval Church as a Mystical Body to
the Early Modern State as a Mystical Person: Ernst Kantorowicz and Carl Schmit’
17.15: Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
We are deeply saddened to announce that Professor Roy Eriksen died last Monday, April 22. He had been a powerful supporter and a loyal contributor to the Kingston Shakespeare Seminar from its beginning, and the masterly lecture he gave in 2017 – on Marlowe’s Ovid – is remembered as one of the high points of the entire series. His presentation at our ‘Marlowe and Shakespeare’ conference was the definitive statement of a lifetime’s work on the authorship question, and the enthusiasm with which this was now received was a striking vindication of his pioneering research. Roy’s gift for conciliation was also in demand when he serenely chaired one of the most contentious debates of this conference, and it made him an ideal ambassador, as its international secretary, of the UK Marlowe Society.
GARRICK AND HOGARTH:
