Peele and the Ends of Narrative: London Renaissance Seminar at the Early Modern Reading Group – Friday 27th November 2015
For the Early Modern Reading Group’s first meeting of the new academic year, Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia) will give a short talk and lead discussion of George Peele’s play The Old Wives Tale (1595). Professor Guy-Bray writes:
George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale is remarkable for the fact that it dramatizes how narrative becomes stage action: that is, the characters in the story that the old wife is telling become actual people moving about the stage. I want to use this play and its consideration of narrative to address questions of the purpose of narrative more generally. Do literary texts require narrative? Is it possible to escape narrative?
The Old Wives Tale is available on EEBO here. Please bring a copy of the text with you.
The reading group will meet at 6pm in Room 221, 43 Gordon Square; drinks and snacks will be provided.
The Early Modern Reading Group is a postgraduate reading group which meets every month to discuss a variety of texts from the early modern period. For more information, visit the Early Modern Reading Group on Dandelion or the London Renaissance Seminar website.