BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:343@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T171500 DTSTAMP:20210211T200637Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/wip-zimmerman/ SUMMARY:Work-in-Progress Session–"Plutus" in Print: Aristophanes and the Early Modern English Print Public DESCRIPTION:Presented by Shadow Zimmerman\, University of Washington\n\nHos ted by Bronwen Wilson\, Center &\; Clark Director\, Professor of Art Hi story\, UCLA\n\nRespondents:\nJohanna Drucker\, Professor of Information S tudies\, UCLA\nMuriel McClendon\, Professor of History\, UCLA\nClaire McEa chern\, Professor of English\, UCLA\n\nThis event is free of charge\, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to reg ister directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrf-ugpj 4tHtTtTvkBVwefDR1iuXJqsg_s\n\nAs part of our ongoing effort to sustain int ellectual community and enable scholarly exchange\, and in order to suppor t and encourage the work many of us are doing in a range of public forums during this unprecedented time\, the UCLA Center for 17th- &\; 18th-Ce ntury Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library are hosting wo rks-in-progress sessions and panel discussions online via Zoom during the 2020–21 academic year. Academic programs supported by the Center/Clark e xplore the latest research in the early modern period (including the long eighteenth century\, which extends through the Romantic period) and in spe cial areas represented in the Clark’s collections.\n\nDespite being rel atively unknown\, even within the academic community\, Aristophanes’ Plu tus (388 BCE) was his most popular play throughout the medieval and Early Modern periods. Aristophanes’ oeuvre made its first Greek appearance in Early-Modern Europe in the Aldine Press’s Aristophanous komodiai ennea ( Nine Aristophanes Comedies) (1498 CE). Although the play proliferated thro ughout Europe thereafter\, it\, like most of Aristophanes’ work\, didn ’t appear in English print until the seventeenth century\, in the form o f one bawdy adaptation and one deeply Christianized translation: The World ’s Idol\; or\, Plutus\, a Comedy (1659) attributed simply to “H.H.R\, ” published during the nine-year Protestant ban on theatre–during a ti me in which reading or annotating (deeply political) plays could be consid ered an act of private performance. While scholars such as Robert Miola an d Rosie Wyles have detailed the possible authorial intent behind the play\ , contemporary scholarship has only considered one vector in the complicat ed publishing process: creation\, production\, and reception. The Clark Li brary’s catalogue offers a unique opportunity to investigate reader rece ption of the infamous play. In this paper\, Shadow Zimmerman will engage t he Clark’s annotated edition of The World’s Idol as one captured examp le of reader response\, to unpack the meaning of its markings in order to better understand what this highly divisive political play meant to this o ne reader\, how it was received\, and perhaps to suggest its reception amo ng a respective subset of the population. He hopes to add to the scholarly understanding of this play’s English reception and\, personally\, to be tter synthesize this play’s position in history. The paper will be pre-c irculated to registrants.\n\nShadow Zimmerman is a third-year doctoral stu dent at the University of Washington School of Drama. He currently serves as the Editorial Assistant for Theatre History Studies and represents the graduate student members of ASTR as the 2019/2020 GSC Secretary/Historian. He serves his local School of Drama community as doctoral representative on the board of Graduate Student Representatives. He has presented work at the conferences of the American Society for Theatre Research\, the Southe astern Theatre Symposium\, the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Ame ricas\, and the Mid-America Theatre Conference. His scholarship and curric ulum are featured in Theatre Symposium 28 and How to Teach a Play: Essenti al Exercises for Popular Plays. His research considers medieval and early modern reception of ancient plays\, literary theory and textual studies\, and the intersections of the historical and modern avant-gardes. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02 /zimmerman-wip-_web.jpg CATEGORIES:Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR