Abstract: '"Our hurtless mirth": What's Funny about The Dutch Courtesan' (Julian)

Dublin Core

Title

Abstract: '"Our hurtless mirth": What's Funny about The Dutch Courtesan' (Julian)

Subject

The Dutch Courtesan, "Marston, John", Dutch Courtesan 2019, Toronto Dutch Courtesan, conference abstract, early modern drama, non-Shakespearean drama, humour, violence

Description

Abstract for Erin Julian's '"Our hurtless mirth": What's Funny about The Dutch Courtesan?'. Includes biography for Julian.

Creator

"Julian, Erin"

Date

2019-03-23, 1605, 17th century, 21st century

Contributor

Dutch Courtesan 2019 project team

Relation

The Dutch Courtesan, Toronto Dutch Courtesan production

Format

.pdf (96KB)

Language

en-CA

Type

Text Object

Identifier

DC2019-0007

Coverage

Toronto (CA), London (UK), 2019-03-22-23, 1605, 17th century

Date Available

2019-06-30

Date Created

2019-03

References

The Dutch Courtesan, Toronto Dutch Courtesan production

Extent

96KB

Medium

Digital PDF

Bibliographic Citation

Julian, Erin. '"Our hurtless mirth": What's Funny about The Dutch Courtesan'?. Abstract. 'Strangers and Aliens in London and Toronto: Sex, Religion, and Xenophobia in John Marston's The Dutch Courtesan'. DC2019-0007. Dutch Courtesan 2019. Toronto, March 2019. https://dutchcourtesan2019.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/35

Spatial Coverage

Toronto (CA), London (UK)

Temporal Coverage

2019-03-23, 1605, 17th century

Accrual Method

Materials solicited by the Dutch Courtesan project team.

Accrual Periodicity

Infrequently updated after 2019.

Audience

researchers, researchers of early modern drama, university instructors, undergraduate students, graduate students, actors

Audience Education Level

Post-Secondary, Graduate, Post-Graduate

Instructional Method

large-group instruction, small-group instruction, independent research, Performance as Research

Text Item Type Metadata

Text

‘“Our hurtless mirth”: What’s Funny about The Dutch Courtesan’ (Panel 4: Learning from Rehearsal and Production – 2:15-3:30PM, 23 March 2019)

Erin Julian (Independent)

Given its themes of misogyny, xenophobia, and religious violence, The Dutch Courtesan is an unpromising vehicle for laughter. This paper draws from observations and discussions about the play's humour that took place during the rehearsal to articulate how the 2019 Dutch Courtesan harnessed the play's humour to expose the fractures in the play's London community, and to suggest the fatalism of city comedy competition. The production pushed plots and characters to ever greater extremes of absurdity and laughter, right up to the breaking point of audience laughter, to the point of anxiety and pain. In these moments the production opened a critical eye to the worst of the city’s practices, spotlighting, in the process, those who are most vulnerable to urban violence: women, sex workers,
and religious and ethnic 'others'.

Erin Julian graduated from the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster
University. Her research focuses on sexual violence in early modern drama (particularly comedy), and diversity and equity work more generally. Her recent and forthcoming publications include ‘Practicing Diversity at the Stratford Festival of Canada: Shakespeare, Performance, and Ethics in
the Twenty-First Century’ in The Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance (eds Kirwan and Prince, Bloomsbury, 2020); 'What's Funny about The Dutch Courtesan?' (Early
Theatre, 2020); 'Labour of Care: Academic Theatre Research in the Commercial Theatre' (Shakespeare Bulletin, forthcoming); ‘New Directions in Jonson Criticism’ (Early Theatre, 2014); and
The Alchemist: A Critical Reader (eds Julian and Ostovich, Bloomsbury, 2013). She is also co-editor of The Dutch Courtesan for the Oxford University Press The Complete Works of John Marston.

Original Format

PDF

Files

DC2019-0007-Abstract-Julian-2019-03-23.pdf

Citation

"Julian, Erin", “Abstract: '"Our hurtless mirth": What's Funny about The Dutch Courtesan' (Julian),” Dutch Courtesan 2019, accessed April 3, 2025, https://dutchcourtesan2019.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/35.

Document Viewer

Embed

Copy the code below into your web page