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Beware the Cat: A Screening and Reflections on Practice as Research in Tudor Literature

Research
Culture and languages

Rachel Stenner from the University of Sussex is visiting the Department of Languages and Literatures and will give two lectures.

Lecture,
Seminar
Date
18 May 2026
Time
15:15 - 17:00
Location
Room J336, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6 and online

Good to know
Language: English

If you would like to attend the lecture online, please contact Per Sivefors at per.sivefors@sprak.gu.se

The second lecture will take place on 19 May.
Organizer
The Department of Languages and Literatures, the research area Literary and Cultural Studies, the English Research Seminar, and the Early Modern Seminar

This session introduces William Baldwin’s satirical poem Beware the Cat (1561) through a screening of a performance at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Other Place that emerged through a project running from 2018-2023. Rachel will contextualise Beware the Cat and explain the genesis and rationale for the project as a whole. Conceived as an exercise in practice-as-research, this work led to insights around the text’s gender politics, spatial poetics, and ideas about knowledge acquisition. The screening and Rachel’s introduction will provide a case study upon which Tuesday’s talk, ‘Humans and Humanism in the Works of William Baldwin’, will draw.