To be held at Shrewsbury School; Shrewsbury, Shropshire; April 3-5 1998.
Call for Papers
Fulke Greville (1554-1628) poet, courtier, and friend of Philip Sidney. Fulke Greville and Philip Sidney were life-long friends who began school together at Shrewsbury on the same day in 1564. The title of this symposium comes from a comment scrawled by Sidney in one of his school-books.
Greville has generally been studied principally in the shadow of his famous friend. He was however an accomplished writer, statesman, and thinker in his own right. The symposium sets out to explore and discuss the life, times and writings of Fulke Greville, and to appraise the current state of Fulke Greville scholarship.
Proposed topics for discussion include: the political, religious and intellectual context of Fulke Greville's writing; editing Fulke Greville; `Caelica' and Elizabethan sonnet sequences; closet drama; The `Remains'; Fulke Greville's `Life of Sir Philip Sidney'; Fulke Greville's life, death, and his relationship with Sidney; education and schooling in the sixteenth century; Fulke Greville on war and monarchy; and the critical reception of Fulke Greville.
If you are interested in attending or would like to offer a paper, please contact Matthew Woodcock or Helen Vincent at University College, Oxford, OX1 4BH. Email: matthew.woodcock@university-college.ox.ac.uk or helen.vincent@university-college.ox.ac.uk
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 Jan 1998. Further details regarding registration and accommodation are available from the addresses above.
PD 5 December 1997