Hospitality concerns both the conditions and the themes of Shakespearean theater. Hospitality fashions an interface between politics and life, and hence constitutes a species of biopower. Hospitality is ritualized behavior that involves implicit or explicit theological dimensions, and hence contributes to political theology. Finally, hospitality manages space, time, food, and entertainment, and hence bodies forth an art of living. In the Renaissance, plays were "entertainments" associated with the festive calendar and often performed in spaces associated with hospitality (the yards of inns and the great halls and banqueting houses of royal palaces). This essay places hospitality between the order of activity (daily routines of feeding, clothing, cleaning, and dwelling) and the world of action (significant human deeds involving intersubjective risk and the chance of the new). The social scripts of hospitality connect the physical things of drama (chairs, tables, stools, cups, napkins, torches, arrases) to the themes of drama as a narrative art (courtship, rape, and marriage; internment and murder; citizenship and naturalization) within a shared assemblage of concerns.
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, University of California, Irvine
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
07/06/2011 20:00 - 07/06/2011 22:00
Event venue:
ZfL Berlin
Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin,
Trajekte-Tagungsraum (308)
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
local
Subject areas:
Language / literature, Music / theatre
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/19/2011
Sender/author:
Sabine Zimmermann
Department:
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZFL)
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event35485
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