CFP: Byron at the Theatre (UK) (12/31/06; 5/11/07-5/12/07)
Call for papers
Byron at the Theatre
Friday-Saturday 11th-12th May 2007
Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University
A one-and-a-half day conference held by the English Department, Nottingham Trent University, in association with the Newstead Abbey Byron Society, and the Midlands Romantic Seminar.
"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting"
Of the Romantics, Byron was the most committed to writing plays: Manfred; Marino Faliero; Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain; The Deformed Transformed, to name but a few. We welcome papers addressing any aspect of Byron at the Theatre. Subjects could include