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Caitlin Hubbard (Stanford University) presents, "Travelling Scenes: Tracing the Scenic Repertoire of the Seventeenth-Century English Stage"

Speaker
Date
Wed January 21st 2026, 12:00 - 1:15pm
Event Sponsor
Department of English
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library

With a response from Casey Ocasal (English). See the abstract below: 

Reconsidering the concept of the “stock scene” in the public theaters of Restoration England, including its implications of generic broadness and economy-driven reuse, this paper instead proposes that we think of each performance company as having a scenic repertoire akin to a dramatic repertoire. Like a playbook held by the company for current and future use, Restoration scenery could be and was adapted, augmented, imitated, lost, found, stolen, and remade—ultimately promoting inter-theatrical dialogue through its specificity and reproducibility.