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London Renaissance Seminar: Authorship and Attribution in Early Modern Drama: John Marston and Others

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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10.00 Arrival and coffee
10:30 Martin Butler (Leeds) and Matthew Steggle (Sheffield Hallam)
Introduction

Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde)
‘How, and what, to think about computational attribution studies’

11:15 Break

11:30 Gabriel Egan (De Montfort)
‘Old and new methods for attributing authorship’

Brett Hirsch (Western Australia, by Skype)
‘Histrio-mastix: or, The Attributionist whipt’

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Marston case studies 1
Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University, Chicago)
‘Attribution in Eastward Ho!: a question still open’
Response by Lois Potter (Delaware)

Darren Freebury-Jones (Cardiff)
‘Verbal affinities between Marston and Lust’s Dominion’
Response by M. J. Kidnie (Western Ontario, by Skype)

15:30 Tea

16:00 Marston case studies 2
Charles Cathcart (Independent scholar)
‘The Insatiate Countess, The Lascivious Queen, and the Whitefriars
Theatre’

Lucy Munro (King’s College London)
The Insatiate Countess

Tony Parr (Huntington Library)
Histriomastix

17:30 Finish

Organisers: Professor Martin Butler, Professor M Steggle

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