Dear list members,
I thought I'd pass along this notice for a brown-bag talk at the Huntington
taking place this Thursday, which evidently focuses on a newly discovered
romance coauthored by a member of the Sidney Circle. I don't know anything
about the Conway papers or the subject of Dr. Starza Smith's talk, but the
subject sounds intriguing at the very least!
Scott
Scott C. Lucas
Professor of English
The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
171 Moultrie St.
Charleston, SC 29409
(843) 953-5133
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*Subject:* Brown Bag Talk - Thursday, October 2
*Brown Bag Talk*
*Thursday, October 2*
*A Bird of Diverse Colours**: A Newly Discovered*
* Elizabethan Romance in the Conway Papers*
*Daniel Starza Smith*
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford University
In the 18th century, a bundle of Elizabethan letters was almost cast into
the flames, only to be preserved, with a sniff of contempt, under the label
"Letters of no importance." But within these letters survives an
astonishing Elizabethan romance, which Dr. Smith is calling *A Bird of
Diverse Colours* - a romance that is at once a true story and a literary
fiction. A co-authored narrative of betrayal, violence, disguise, and
sexual intrigue, this tale was both lived and consciously fashioned by a
member of the elite Sidney circle of poets and statesmen, and a practically
unknown female poet whose literary brilliance deserves to be better known.
This presentation will set out the case for these "unimportant" documents.
*Thursday, October 2*
* 12-1 p.m. Huntington Library, Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2*
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