£20
Join us on 28 September for anoher outstanding performance by Edward’s Boys, who return to the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret following their highly successful visit with “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor!” in April this year.
Mercantile Humanism is a British Academy-funded project led by Dr Angus Vine (University of Stirling), investigating the literary and cultural lives of the merchants of the early modern world. Drawing on original archival research, the project recovers a range of little known literary, dramatic, economic, and educational texts by merchant authors. It also explores documentary materials associated with mercantile culture, including merchants’ letters, booklists, account books, inventories, and ledgers, and examines the representation of merchants in contemporary texts. The project’s findings will be published in different forms and through public engagement activities, including guided document viewings at the London Metropolitan Archives, public lectures at the University of Stirling and Guildhall Library, London, and performance workshops with school and university students.
Scenes from the City: A Civic Education is the culmination of these public engagement activities. A collaboration with Edward’s Boys, the all-boy company from King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, this show explores some of the ways in which merchants were involved in the worlds of education and entertainment in early modern London, both as impresarios and fundraisers, and as the satiric targets of plays. The illustrated lecture presents ten scenes and songs from works by Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, and John Webster, ranging in tone from the celebratory to the bitterly satiric. Much of the material has not been publicly performed since the early seventeenth century.
Doors will open at 18:15 so ticket-holders have time to visit the museum before the start of the event at 19:00.
**Access is through a 52-step spiral staircase. For more information go to Access.
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