People and commodities from abroad played a vital role in Renaissance London's urban scene, and their influence made their way into the era's theaters as well. The panel aims to explore how early modern dramas played with the foreign. How are foreign people, texts, and commodities represented in the Renaissance theater? How do these dramas play with the notion of foreigness, and to what effect? Papers can explore playhouse invocations, appropriations, and exploitations of the foreign, as well as ways in which early modern drama invited audience members to lay claim to the foreign. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Carol Mejia LaPerle at ‎carol.mejia-laperle@wright.edu‎ and Hillary Nunn at nunn@uakron.edu
Deadline extended to July 17, 2011.