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In 2024, we honour our President and former Chair, Mrs Leah Scragg, by turning our attention to the work of the Elizabethan prose writer, poet, and dramatist John Lyly. The Malone Society conference will be dedicated to Lyly’s comedy Campaspe (1583), originally performed by the children’s company at the Blackfriars playhouse, and subsequently presented … Read more
We are delighted to announce that registration for this year’s Malone Society conference, on Mucedorus, is now open. This year the Malone Society conference is dedicated to the exhilarating A Most Pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus (c. 1591), arguably the most popular play of the English Renaissance. Reprinted almost twice as often as any other play … Read more
The Malone Society is proud to present our 2021 online conference. This year we will be turning to Ben Jonson’s comedy The Devil Is an Ass, one of his best loved, most enduring, and funniest creations. The day will start with an introductory lecture by James Loxley (Professor of English, University of Edinburgh), followed by … Read more
The Malone Society is proud to host its 2019 conference at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday 6 July. This year we focus on Philip Massinger’s powerful creation, The Roman Actor. The play, which premiered in 1626, is one of Massinger’s crucial achievements as a dramatist, a piece full of dark humour and metatheatrical … Read more
The Playhouse Lab, the Oxford Marston, and The Malone Society present John Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge: a one-day conference Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds Saturday, 7 July 2018 This one-day conference will focus on Marston’s riveting revenge tragedy, an unfairly neglected jewel of late Elizabethan drama which resonates with Shakespeare’s Hamlet and other classic revenge tragedies of the … Read more
The Malone Society is very pleased to inform members and others that a symposium, ‘Marginal Malone’, will take place on 26 June 2015 at the University of Oxford. This symposium examines the lives and afterlives of Malone’s readings of English literature, and is a collaboration between the Yale Program in the History of the Book and the Bodleian … Read more
We’re holding a symposium! Reverend Productions and The Malone Society present: King Leir A staged reading and symposium Saturday 16 May, 10:30am-6:30pm The Chapel, Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford The staged reading will commence at 11am. Speakers in the afternoon symposium will include Professor Tiffany Stern, Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones and Professor Sir Brian Vickers. Please see below for … Read more
This guest post comes from Dr Eoin Price, who recently gained his PhD from The Shakespeare Institute, where he currently works. He is preparing a book about the meaning of the terms ‘public’ and ‘private’ in Renaissance theatrical discourse and has work forthcoming in Literature Compass and The Map of Early Modern London [http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/]. His reviews of … Read more
We are delighted to announce that registration for the Malone Society’s symposium and staged reading of The Fair Maid of the Exchange is now open! See the poster below for full details and how to register. We look forward to seeing you there!
It is our pleasure to announce that with the support of the Malone Society, there will be a staged play reading and afternoon Symposium in the Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College on 17th May 2014. The performance will take place in the morning, followed by an academic discussion in the afternoon. The play will be … Read more