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Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Kate Retford, ‘“The Picture was my Stage”: The Theatre of the Conversation Piece’

Dr Kate Retford, Lecturer in Eighteenth and early Nineteenth-Century History of Art, Birkbeck College, University 

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Martin Postle, Johann Zoffany, Women Players and Eighteenth Century Theatre

Dr Martin Postle, Assistant Director, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Joseph Roach: The Second Life of the First Actresses

Professor Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theatre, Yale University 

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Roundtable discussion

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Felicity Nussbaum, The Forgotten Tragic Muse, Mary Anne Yates and Oriental Drama

Professor Felicity Nussbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Dr Lucy Peltz and Professor Gill Perry, Session One: Portraiture and the Construction of Celebrity

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Elizabeth Kuti, Enter A Gentleman: A One Act Play About Aphra Behn

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Berta Joncus, Listening to Portraits: Music and the Eighteenth-Century Opera Celebrity

Dr Berta Joncus, Goldsmiths, University of London, Listening to Portraits: Music, Representation and the Eighteenth-Century Singer, Dr Berta Joncus (Senior Lecturer in Music, Goldsmith’s College, University of London) The following images were used by Dr Joncus, they have been blurred out in the film because of copyright reasons LIST OF FIGURES Abbrieviations Windsor Anthony Blunt and Edward Croft-Murray, Venetian Drawings of the XVII & XVIII Centuries: in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle (London: Phaidon Press, [1957])

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

This specialist academic conference developed themes raised in the exhibition The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. Speakers, including Professors Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA) and Joseph Roach (Yale), explored and problematised ideas of ‘celebrity’ culture and the symbolic, allegorical and discursive functions of portraits of women players.

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