Session Details

Wednesday, 30 December

657. The Tragicomedy of Labor: Travel and Travail on the Early Modern Stage

10:15–11:30 a.m., 402–403, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare

Presiding: Natasha Korda, Wesleyan Univ.

1. “Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in The Custom of the Country,” Amanda Bailey, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs

2. “Dangerous Labor: Representing Overseas Travel on the London Stage, 1580–1620,” Daniel James Vitkus, Florida State Univ.

3. “The Comic Tragedy of Labor: A Global Story,” Valerie Forman, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

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