SEM conjoint avec PEMS, 14/04/2023: Janelle Jenstad (Univ. Victoria), ““Early Modern Stage Directions and the Encoded Playbook”, MR, D. 323

Séminaire conjoint Modernités 16 – 18 et le Paris Early Modern Sermin,

Vendredi 14 avril 2023, 16 h 30 – 18 h 00, Maison de la recherche, salle D 323

Janelle Jenstad (University of Victoria): “Early Modern Stage Directions and the Encoded Playbook: Text or Markup?”

(discussant: Line Cottegnies, Sorbonne Université)

Abstract:

How we encode, render, and count stage directions in a digital edition depends on the relationship between stage directions and the rest of the text. Are stage directions paratexts or are they part of the text of the playbook? What information do we need to capture when we encode stage directions? Where and how should we display them in our digital interface? And how should we number them in order to make them linkable and citable? This paper begins by showing the shifting placement of stage directions relative to the text block in the period 1500 to 1700 and briefly summarizing the recent burst of scholarship on stage directions, their purpose, authorship, and intended user. Then the paper turns to the challenge of encoding stage directions in the XML markup language of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and reflects on the applicability of the <stage> element specification to early modern drama. Finally, the paper turns to how the Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO) project proposes to handle the rendering and numbering of stage directions both in our digital editions and in the LEMDO Hornbooks print-on-demand series. (This paper draws on research jointly conducted with Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award student Mahayla Galliford.)

Bio:

Janelle Jenstad is Professor of English at University of Victoria. She directs The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) and Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO), and co-coordinates The New Internet Shakespeare Editions (NISE) and Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE). With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). With Kaethler, she is co-general editing the MoEML Mayoral Shows Anthology (MoMS). She is editing in particular John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 and 1633 texts) for MoEML; The Merchant of Venice with Stephen Wittek for the NISE; and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, Scholarly Editing, and Digital Studies/Champs Numeriques. Chapters appear in Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge).

SEM 03/04/2023, 14h-16h: K. Pluymers, “Imperial Visions in J. Evelyn’s “Sylva” et V. Moul, “Cowley’s Trees: Genre and Tone in Seventeenth-Century Latin Poetry”, Amphi Molinié, MR

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter au prochain séminaire de l’Axe Modernités 16 – 18 sur « Poétiques et politique de l’arbre à la première modernité » qui se tiendra le LUNDI 3 AVRIL prochain à la maison de la recherche (28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris), de 14 h 00 à 16 h 00 en Amphi Molinié.

Nous y entendrons les deux interventions suivantes: 

Keith Pluymers (Illinois State University), “Imperial Visions and Colonial Omission in John Evelyn’s  Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions (1662)” (à distance)

Et

Victoria Moul (University College London), “Cowley’s trees: assessing style, genre and tone in seventeenth century Latin poetry” (en personne)

(Discutant: Alexis Tadié)

Lien zoom:

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En espérant vous y retrouver nombreux, 

Bien cordialement, 

Line Cottegnies, Anne-valérie Dulac et Alexis Tadié

Keith Pluymers

Bio: Keith Pluymers is Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He completed his PhD in 2015 at the University of Southern California and was a postdoctoral instructor at Caltech prior to joining ISU. His first book, No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic came out with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2021 and has won the John Ben Snow Prize for best book on British history prior to 1800 from the North American Conference on British Studies. He is currently working on a book project titled “Water, Steam, and Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene” that examines the development of Philadelphia’s municipal water system in the long eighteenth century and the climate and environmental histories that shaped it.

Abstract: In the first two editions of his In the first two editions of Sylva (1664 and 1670) John Evelyn described himself as the first person to think systematically about England’s forests and trees at a moment of scarcity and crisis. This, however, was a self-conscious promotional flourish—Evelyn had seen and engaged with robust discussions about woods and trees in England and its colonies in the years prior to publication—but it allowed him to approach imperial expansion and the management of woods as a new question facing England, rather than one to which there were several ongoing answers. Evelyn’s inclusions and omissions around colonial forestry and timber projects were essential to his imperial political ecology—one in which colonies were luxuries rather than necessities.

Victoria Moul

Bio: Victoria Moul is Reader in Early Modern Latin and English at University College London. She has published widely on classical, early modern and modern poetry in English and Latin, with particular expertise in the bilingual literary culture of early modernity. Her most recent book in this field is A Literary History of Latin and English Poetry: Bilingual Literary Culture in Early Modern England, published last year by Cambridge University Press.

Abstract: Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Sex, the ’Six Books of Plants’, published in its final form in 1668, shortly after Cowley’s death, was by far his most ambitious work but is today by far the least read. Containing, among many other topics, discussions of the best forms of government, the plants of the New World, the superiority of America over Europe and the ethics of abortion, all delivered by personified plants, it is a remarkable work by any measure. Its length, Latinity and sheer strangeness, however, have largely excluded it from serious critical consideration. This paper will use the last two books, on trees, to consider how we can approach and make sense of large-scale Latin poetry of this period, with particular attention to the central literary criteria of style, genre and tone.