<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Reminder:</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">~</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear all,</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The next Agora Seminar Series talk at the University of Wollongong will be given by Dr. Julian Lamb, in Building 20-4, May 30 at 3.30pm. This is an in-person event and no registration is necessary. All welcome!</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Abstract:</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Dotive: Infelicity in Antony and Cleopatra</font></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In I.1 of Antony and Cleopatra, a messenger from Rome threatens to take Antony from Egypt. Antony reassures Cleopatra of his intentions to remain by saying the following: “Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch / Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space” (I.1, 35-6). Antony’s words appear conscious that they are not merely describing something, but doing something: ordering the melting of Rome into the Tiber. Such an order seems extravagant, if not absurd. Even if Antony had the authority to order such a thing, we might well wonder how it could ever be carried out. Of course, Antony’s utterance is self-consciously hyperbolic, ironic, and can hardly be taken seriously. Given this, however, the following question arises: why does Antony express his sincere commitment to Cleopatra with an utterance which is itself insincere? I want to address this question – and its implications for the remainder of the play – through J.L. Austin’s account of performative language. Doing so will require close consideration of a curious form of performative utterance which I have called the dotive.</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bio:</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">Julian Lamb </span></font><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:12px">received his PhD from Cambridge University.</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"> He has published a monograph on early modern pedagogy, and his articles on Shakespeare, early modern linguistics, and English Renaissance poetry have appeared in journals such as English Literary Renaissance and Shakespeare Quarterly.</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;margin:0cm"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Warm regards,</font></span></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;margin:0cm"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;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