FULL PROGRAMME:
Friday, 25 January
Keynote Address:
Robert D. Hume, Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature,Pennsylvania State University
'John Rich as Manager and Entrepreneur'
Saturday, 26 January
Dancing with Rich: Evidence and Practice
Chair: Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Cornell University
Moira Goff (British Library), 'John Rich, French Dancing and English Pantomimes'
Jennifer Thorp (New College, University of Oxford), 'Pierrot Strikes Back: François Nivelon at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent Garden, 1723-1738'
Kimiko Okamoto (Roehampton University), 'Narrativity of Generic Dance on the London Stage in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century'
Transforming and Adapting: Handel and the London Stage
Chair: Donald Burrows, The Open University
Graydon Beeks (Pomona College) 'A Decade of Transition: The Covent Garden Theatre Orchestra 1757-1767'
Corbett Bazler (Columbia University), 'Harlequin Xerxes: Handel after Rich'
Robert Anthony Torre (University of Wisconsin, Madison), 'Cultural Translatio and Handel's Pasticci'
Print Culture and the London Stage
Chair: Kathryn R. King, University of Montevallo
Don-John Dugas (Kent State University), 'Contemporary Response to Pantomime in London, 1722-1724, from the Pages of the Weekly Pasquin'
Uriel Heyd (Royal Holloway, University of London), 'The World's Stage: The Newspaper in Eighteenth-Century Theatre'
Neil Pattison (University of Cambridge), 'Lewis Theobald and the Literate Art of Pantomime Entertainments'
The Man behind the Mask: New Evidence in Rich Scholarship
Chair: Robert D. Hume, Pennsylvania State University
David Hunter (University of Texas at Austin), 'What the Prompter Saw: The Diary of Rich's Prompter, John Stede'
Ana Martinez (City University of New York Graduate Center), 'Scenographies behind the Scenes: Mapping, Classifying and Interpreting John Rich's 1744 Inventory of Covent Garden'
Kevin J. McGinley (Fatih University), 'John Rich as Critic: The Evidence of "Some Remarks on the Tragedy call'd Agis"'
Iconography and Icons of the London Stage
Chair: Maria Chiara Barbieri, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Marcus Risdell (Curator, Garrick Club), 'Unmasking the "Davenant Bust"'
Robin Simon, FSE (Editor, The British Art Journal), 'Rich and Hogarth: Gesture and Expression in The Beggar's Opera'
Iain Mackintosh (Independent scholar) with Marcus Risdell (Garrick Club), 'John Rich Unmask'd: Off and On Stage'
Changing Tastes of 'the Town': Dance, Opera, and Afterpieces
Chair: Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford
Rebecca Harris-Warrick (Cornell University), 'French Dance Music on the London Stage in the Time of John Rich'
Marc Martinez (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III), 'The Tricks of Lun: Mimesis and Mimicry in John Rich's Performance and Conception of Pantomimes'
Sarah McCleave (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Rich and "High Art": A Consideration of his Support for Opera'
All about Rich: Influences and Criticism outside the Theatre
Chair: Judith Milhous, City University of New York Graduate Center
Matthew J. Kinservik (University of Delaware), 'John Rich and the Censors'
Vanessa L. Rogers (Independent scholar), 'Songs, Dances, and Other "Monkey Tricks": Henry Fielding, John Rich and Rivalry on the London Stage'
Andrew Pink (UCL [University College London]), 'Patrons, Performers and Politics: Freemasons at the Theatre in Early Eighteenth-Century London'
Musical Rich: Father and Son
Chair: Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford
Kathryn Lowerre (Michigan State University), 'Music and Magic in Christopher Rich's Theatres, 1694-1709'
Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson (Brentwood, Essex), '"Sung Songs like Leveridge, and like Rich play'd Tricks (Harlequin Horace)": Singers and the Pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields'
Rethinking 'The Beggar's Opera'
Chair: Jeremy Barlow, The Broadside Band
David Nokes (King's College London), 'Rich and The Beggar'
Maria Chiara Barbieri (Università degli Studi di Firenze): 'John Rich and Staging The Beggar's Opera'
Pantomimes: Narratives and Traditions
Chair: Moira Goff, British Library
Richard Semmens (University of Western Ontario), 'John Rich: Face to Face with Faust; Or, the Nights Lun didn't dance'
Anne MacNeil (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), 'Opera and the Commedia dell'Arte: The Emperor Nero Tale-Type'
Benefit Performance for John Rich
An entertainment featuring commedia dell'arte, French dance, opera arias, ballads and instrumental music. Artists include: Musicians of the Royal Academy of Music, Circus Space, Neil Jenkins, Edith Lalonger (Paris)
Sunday, 27 January
That's Entertainment: Performing in Rich's Theatres
Chair: Edith Lalonger
Jeremy Barlow (The Broadside Band), 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Harmonizing Ballad Opera Tunes in the Eighteenth Century'
Naomi Matsumoto (Goldsmith's College, University of London), 'A Rich Vein of Success: The English Mad Song and Early Eighteenth-Century Burlesque Theatre'
Keith McEwing (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), '"And Harlequin Dances": Lun and the Chacoon for a Harlequin'
Closing performance of musical and dance examples.
Women and Rich's Theatres
Chair: Elizabeth Eger, King's College London
Fiona Ritchie (McGill University), 'The Impact of the Shakespeare Ladies Club on John Rich's Repertory in the 1737-38 Theatrical Season'
Kathryn R. King (University of Montevallo), 'John Rich and Eliza Haywood at Lincoln's Inn Fields'
Felicity Nussbaum (University of California, Los Angeles), '"An Appendix to her Sex": Peg Woffington and Nation'
Closing debate on gender issues.
Harlequin in Motion: Traditions and Evidence
Chair: Jennifer Thorp, New College, University of Oxford
Carol Marsh (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), 'Dance on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage: The Choreographic Evidence'
Linda J. Tomko (University of California, Riverside), 'Harlequin Choreographies: Repetition, Difference, and Representation'
Jim Fowler (V&A Theatre and Performance Collection), 'Harlequin Women'
Al Coppola (Fordham University), 'Harlequin Newton: John Rich's Necromancer and the Public Science of the 1720s'
Staging Handel at Covent Garden
Chair: Graydon Beeks, Pomona College
Deborah W. Rooke (King's College London), 'Samson down the Edward Lumley Hall Centuries: From Biblical Text to Handelian Oratorio'
Donald Burrows (The Open University), 'Good for the Garden: The Composition of Handel's Ariodante'
Stage Business: Commerce, Magic and Management
Chair: Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford
Judith Milhous (City University of New York Graduate Center), 'The Finances of an Eighteenth-Century Theatre Revisited: Tales of John Rich's Company in 1724-25'
Berta Joncus (St Anne's College, University of Oxford), '"The Power of Sound and Sing-Song": The Production of Star Tenor John Beard'
Joseph Drury (University of Pennsylvania), 'John Rich and the Mechanization of the Theatre'
Rich in Theatres Outside London
Chair: Fiona Ritchie, McGill University
Gráinne McArdle (Independent scholar), 'John Rich and the Dublin Stage'
Ian Small (University of York), 'Rich's Influence on a Provincial Circuit: Pantomimes in Yorkshire'
Mark A. Howell-Meri (Drama in Schools): 'Working the Three-Sided Stage: The Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields through the Surviving Eighteenth-Century Theatres at Richmond (1788) and Bristol (1766)'
John Rich: the Family Legacy
Chair: Marcus Risdell, Garrick Club
Terry Jenkins (English National Opera), 'John Rich's Family Life: An Investigation into Some Little-Known Details'
Martin V. Clarke (Durham University), 'Handel, Lampe, the Rich Family and the Wesleys: The Musical Interaction Between Methodism and the Theatre'
Neil Jenkins (Independent scholar), 'Covent Garden after Rich: The John Beard Years'
The Garrick Club: Tour of The Garrick Club paintings
Friday, 25 January
Keynote Address:
Robert D. Hume, Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature,Pennsylvania State University
'John Rich as Manager and Entrepreneur'
Saturday, 26 January
Dancing with Rich: Evidence and Practice
Chair: Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Cornell University
Moira Goff (British Library), 'John Rich, French Dancing and English Pantomimes'
Jennifer Thorp (New College, University of Oxford), 'Pierrot Strikes Back: François Nivelon at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent Garden, 1723-1738'
Kimiko Okamoto (Roehampton University), 'Narrativity of Generic Dance on the London Stage in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century'
Transforming and Adapting: Handel and the London Stage
Chair: Donald Burrows, The Open University
Graydon Beeks (Pomona College) 'A Decade of Transition: The Covent Garden Theatre Orchestra 1757-1767'
Corbett Bazler (Columbia University), 'Harlequin Xerxes: Handel after Rich'
Robert Anthony Torre (University of Wisconsin, Madison), 'Cultural Translatio and Handel's Pasticci'
Print Culture and the London Stage
Chair: Kathryn R. King, University of Montevallo
Don-John Dugas (Kent State University), 'Contemporary Response to Pantomime in London, 1722-1724, from the Pages of the Weekly Pasquin'
Uriel Heyd (Royal Holloway, University of London), 'The World's Stage: The Newspaper in Eighteenth-Century Theatre'
Neil Pattison (University of Cambridge), 'Lewis Theobald and the Literate Art of Pantomime Entertainments'
The Man behind the Mask: New Evidence in Rich Scholarship
Chair: Robert D. Hume, Pennsylvania State University
David Hunter (University of Texas at Austin), 'What the Prompter Saw: The Diary of Rich's Prompter, John Stede'
Ana Martinez (City University of New York Graduate Center), 'Scenographies behind the Scenes: Mapping, Classifying and Interpreting John Rich's 1744 Inventory of Covent Garden'
Kevin J. McGinley (Fatih University), 'John Rich as Critic: The Evidence of "Some Remarks on the Tragedy call'd Agis"'
Iconography and Icons of the London Stage
Chair: Maria Chiara Barbieri, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Marcus Risdell (Curator, Garrick Club), 'Unmasking the "Davenant Bust"'
Robin Simon, FSE (Editor, The British Art Journal), 'Rich and Hogarth: Gesture and Expression in The Beggar's Opera'
Iain Mackintosh (Independent scholar) with Marcus Risdell (Garrick Club), 'John Rich Unmask'd: Off and On Stage'
Changing Tastes of 'the Town': Dance, Opera, and Afterpieces
Chair: Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford
Rebecca Harris-Warrick (Cornell University), 'French Dance Music on the London Stage in the Time of John Rich'
Marc Martinez (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III), 'The Tricks of Lun: Mimesis and Mimicry in John Rich's Performance and Conception of Pantomimes'
Sarah McCleave (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Rich and "High Art": A Consideration of his Support for Opera'
All about Rich: Influences and Criticism outside the Theatre
Chair: Judith Milhous, City University of New York Graduate Center
Matthew J. Kinservik (University of Delaware), 'John Rich and the Censors'
Vanessa L. Rogers (Independent scholar), 'Songs, Dances, and Other "Monkey Tricks": Henry Fielding, John Rich and Rivalry on the London Stage'
Andrew Pink (UCL [University College London]), 'Patrons, Performers and Politics: Freemasons at the Theatre in Early Eighteenth-Century London'
Musical Rich: Father and Son
Chair: Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford
Kathryn Lowerre (Michigan State University), 'Music and Magic in Christopher Rich's Theatres, 1694-1709'
Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson (Brentwood, Essex), '"Sung Songs like Leveridge, and like Rich play'd Tricks (Harlequin Horace)": Singers and the Pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields'
Rethinking 'The Beggar's Opera'
Chair: Jeremy Barlow, The Broadside Band
David Nokes (King's College London), 'Rich and The Beggar'
Maria Chiara Barbieri (Università degli Studi di Firenze): 'John Rich and Staging The Beggar's Opera'
Pantomimes: Narratives and Traditions
Chair: Moira Goff, British Library
Richard Semmens (University of Western Ontario), 'John Rich: Face to Face with Faust; Or, the Nights Lun didn't dance'
Anne MacNeil (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), 'Opera and the Commedia dell'Arte: The Emperor Nero Tale-Type'
Benefit Performance for John Rich
An entertainment featuring commedia dell'arte, French dance, opera arias, ballads and instrumental music. Artists include: Musicians of the Royal Academy of Music, Circus Space, Neil Jenkins, Edith Lalonger (Paris)
Sunday, 27 January
That's Entertainment: Performing in Rich's Theatres
Chair: Edith Lalonger
Jeremy Barlow (The Broadside Band), 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Harmonizing Ballad Opera Tunes in the Eighteenth Century'
Naomi Matsumoto (Goldsmith's College, University of London), 'A Rich Vein of Success: The English Mad Song and Early Eighteenth-Century Burlesque Theatre'
Keith McEwing (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), '"And Harlequin Dances": Lun and the Chacoon for a Harlequin'
Closing performance of musical and dance examples.
Women and Rich's Theatres
Chair: Elizabeth Eger, King's College London
Fiona Ritchie (McGill University), 'The Impact of the Shakespeare Ladies Club on John Rich's Repertory in the 1737-38 Theatrical Season'
Kathryn R. King (University of Montevallo), 'John Rich and Eliza Haywood at Lincoln's Inn Fields'
Felicity Nussbaum (University of California, Los Angeles), '"An Appendix to her Sex": Peg Woffington and Nation'
Closing debate on gender issues.
Harlequin in Motion: Traditions and Evidence
Chair: Jennifer Thorp, New College, University of Oxford
Carol Marsh (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), 'Dance on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage: The Choreographic Evidence'
Linda J. Tomko (University of California, Riverside), 'Harlequin Choreographies: Repetition, Difference, and Representation'
Jim Fowler (V&A Theatre and Performance Collection), 'Harlequin Women'
Al Coppola (Fordham University), 'Harlequin Newton: John Rich's Necromancer and the Public Science of the 1720s'
Staging Handel at Covent Garden
Chair: Graydon Beeks, Pomona College
Deborah W. Rooke (King's College London), 'Samson down the Edward Lumley Hall Centuries: From Biblical Text to Handelian Oratorio'
Donald Burrows (The Open University), 'Good for the Garden: The Composition of Handel's Ariodante'
Stage Business: Commerce, Magic and Management
Chair: Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford
Judith Milhous (City University of New York Graduate Center), 'The Finances of an Eighteenth-Century Theatre Revisited: Tales of John Rich's Company in 1724-25'
Berta Joncus (St Anne's College, University of Oxford), '"The Power of Sound and Sing-Song": The Production of Star Tenor John Beard'
Joseph Drury (University of Pennsylvania), 'John Rich and the Mechanization of the Theatre'
Rich in Theatres Outside London
Chair: Fiona Ritchie, McGill University
Gráinne McArdle (Independent scholar), 'John Rich and the Dublin Stage'
Ian Small (University of York), 'Rich's Influence on a Provincial Circuit: Pantomimes in Yorkshire'
Mark A. Howell-Meri (Drama in Schools): 'Working the Three-Sided Stage: The Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields through the Surviving Eighteenth-Century Theatres at Richmond (1788) and Bristol (1766)'
John Rich: the Family Legacy
Chair: Marcus Risdell, Garrick Club
Terry Jenkins (English National Opera), 'John Rich's Family Life: An Investigation into Some Little-Known Details'
Martin V. Clarke (Durham University), 'Handel, Lampe, the Rich Family and the Wesleys: The Musical Interaction Between Methodism and the Theatre'
Neil Jenkins (Independent scholar), 'Covent Garden after Rich: The John Beard Years'
The Garrick Club: Tour of The Garrick Club paintings
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