Faculty Research Spotlight with Prof. Barbara Sebek: Interrogating Genre
FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
NOVEMBER 10th 4:30-5:30PM, Eddy 120
Join us for an informal chat with
Professor Barbara Sebekon her work-in-progress
Interrogating Genre: “Domestic” Tragedy, “Closet” Drama, and the Case of Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry (1613)
This will be an informal chat about Cary’s play, the first original play by an Englishwoman to see publication, and often beloved by students as one of the rare Shakespeare-era plays that (almost) “passes the Bechdel test.” Professor Sebek discusses how this current article-in-progress—forthcoming in a special issue on “Domestic Tragedy” for the journal Studies in the Literary Imagination—evolved out of teaching the play in a variety of classes, as well as how the article developed from its original incarnation as a paper for a small, “boutique” conference, “Death and Domesticity: a conference on Domestic Tragedy” in 2018 that aimed to bring together early modern scholars and theater practitioners.