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Events and Functions for 2005
The Department of English and
The Sydney University Arts Association
invite you to an
Inaugural Lecture to be given by
Professor Penny Gay
Professor in English Literature and Drama
'"So persuasive an Eloquence"? Roles for women
on the eighteenth-century stage'
Tuesday 18th October 2005
6.30pm in Woolley Lecture Theatre N395
Penny Gay’s main research interest is in theatre history from Shakespeare to contemporary Australian drama. Her books include As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women (Routledge, 1994), Jane Austen and the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and editions of Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice. Her current ARC grant is titled 'Speaking Women: Actresses' roles in English drama, 1737-1800'. This will develop her earlier work on the representation of women, and in particular their often transgressive speech, in the public domain of the theatre. Her lecture (illustrated with contemporary images and live readings) will explore the performative and affective nature of female dramatic eloquence in comedy, sentimental drama, and tragedy in this formative period.
Refreshments will be served before the lecture from 6.00 pm
in the main foyer of the Woolley Building.
All welcome. Admission free.
For further information, please contact
Paul Crittenden: tel. 9799 7796 or
e-mail: paul.crittenden@arts.usyd.edu.au
or Rosemary Huisman: tel 9437 4700 or
e-mail: rosemary.huisman@arts.usyd.edu.au
The Woolley Building entrance foyer is in Science Road (which runs parallel with Parramatta Road from the Ross Street University entrance), opposite the lawn of the Holme Building. Lecture Theatre N395 is immediately on your right once you enter the building.
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