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Session 626 (MRDS)
Theorizing Violence in Early Drama I
Friday, 29 December, 3:30–4:45 p.m.
Park Tower Suite 8209, Marriott
“The Theatrical Arts of Dying in the Fifteenth Century: Toward a New Taxonomy of Execution”
Margaret Ann Pappano, Columbia Univ.
“The Knowledge-Producing Function of Violence in Late Medieval Religious Drama”
Pamela K. Sheingorn, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York
“Advertising Violence: Bloody Woodcuts and Bloodless Stages”
Michael Baird Saenger, Cornell Coll.
Session 812 (MRDS)
Theorizing Violence in Early Drama II
Saturday, 30 December, 1:45–3:00 p.m.
Eisenhower, Marriott
“Representing the Unpresentable: Theatrical Performance, Stage Violence, and Conceptions of Identity in Early Modern England”
Erika T. Lin, Univ. of Pennsylvania
“Mrs. Noah and Didactic Abuses”
Jane Marianna Tolmie, Harvard Univ.
“False Bellies, Early Modern Blood, and the Queer Real”
Bianca F.-C. Calabresi, Kenyon Coll.
Session 26
Marlowe and Dramaturgy
Wednesday, 27 December, 5:15–6:30 p.m.
Park Tower Suite 8209, Marriott
“‘I’ll Play Diana’: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the ‘Acteon Complex’”
Christopher John Wessman, New Jersey City Univ.
“Edmund Kean and The Jew of Malta”
Stephanie Moss, Univ. of South Florida
“Man Fly, Sam Shepard’s Adaptation of Doctor Faustus”
Johan Herman Callens, Free Univ. of Brussels
Session 53
Rethinking Shakespeare and Performance Criticism
Wednesday, 27 December, 7:00–8:15 p.m.
Harding, Marriott
“Revisiting Shakespeare-in-Performance: A Theater Historian’s View”
Alan C. Dessen, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Virtual Performances: Shakespeare Online”
W. B. Worthen, Univ. of California, Berkeley
“(Re)Placing and (Re)Writing Shakespearean Stagings”
Barbara Hodgdon, Drake Univ.
Session 104
Postmillennial Marlowe: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, and the Shapes of Contemporary Criticism
Thursday, 28 December, 8:30–9:45 a.m.
Park Tower Suite 8209, Marriott
“‘Conceiving and Subduing Both’: Marlovian Assertion, Irony, and the Prehistory of the Intellectual Field”
James R. Siemon, Boston Univ.
“Revolutions That Have No Model: Violence, Power, and the State in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Part One”
Shankar Raman, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.
“Postmaterialist Marlowe; or, What Lies beyond Cultural Studies as Roman à Clef? Postmodern Ethics and Faustian Wagers”
Lowell Gallagher
Session 134
Shakespeare and Religion
Thursday, 28 December, 10:15–11:30 a.m.
Park Tower Suite 8218, Marriott
“Prospero’s Golem: Shakespearean Romance and the Mastery of the Jews”
Katherine Eggert, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
“The Christianity of the Shakespearean Stage”
Jeffrey Knapp, Univ. of California, Berkeley
“Desdemona’s Deathbed and the Eschatological Crisis of Early Modern England”
Kristen Elizabeth Poole, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
Session 224
Marlowe and Intertextuality
Thursday, 28 December, 12:00–1:15 p.m.
Hoover, Marriott
“Dido Queen of England”
Deanne M. Williams, York Univ.
“Unresolved Ambiguities: Marlowe’s Interrogative Dramas”
Sara Munson Deats, Univ. of South Florida
“Reinventing Marlowe’s Life and Death”
Martha Tuck Rozett, State Univ. of New York, Albany
Session 514
The Institution of the Early Modern Stage
Friday, 29 December, 12:00–1:15 p.m.
Wilson C, Marriott
“Staging (the) Exchange”
Crystal Lynn Bartolovich, Syracuse Univ.
“‘But This Will Be Mere Confusion’: Chaos as Theme and Practice on the Early Modern Stage”
William Newton West, Univ. of California, Berkeley
“Tricks of the Trade: Law Students at Blackfriars”
Brent E. Whitted, Univ. of British Columbia
Session 706
Critical Articulations in Hispanism: The Phantasm of Spanish in Early Modern Studies
Friday, 29 December, 9:00–10:15 p.m.
Conservatory, Washington Hilton
“‘Lust’s Dominion’: Spain’s Ghosts in Early Modern Studies”
Jacques Lezra, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
“The Spanish Temper of English Renaissance Drama”
Eric J. Griffin, Millsaps Coll.
“Hispanism Infelix: The Problem of Colonial Studies”
Roland Greene
Session 696
The Place of Rhetoric in the Early University
Friday, 29 December, 9:00–10:15 p.m.
Park Tower Suite 8206, Marriott
“Rhetoric, Reason, and Religion: Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain”
Carol Poster, Montana State Univ., Bozeman
“Permanently Propadeutic? Rhetoric and Liberal Arts in Three Medieval Universities”
David Bleich, Univ. of Rochester
“Vico’s Rhetorical Teaachings: From the University of Naples to the New Science”
Stephen A. Donatelli, Natl. Univ. of Singapore
“Rhetoric, Violence, and Drama in Medieval Pedagogy”
Jody Enders, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Session 697
“Memory Shall Be a Fume”: (Re)Locating Memory and Forgetting in Early Modern Bodies
Friday, 29 December, 9:00–10:15 p.m.
Marriott Balcony C and D, Marriott
“Of Sound Mind: Speech Disorders and the Structure of Memory on the Early Modern Stage”
Carla J. Mazzio, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Embodying Oblivion”
Garrett A. Sullivan
“Memory without the Body”
Alan G. Stewart, Univ. of London, England
Respondent: Gail Kern Paster, George Washington Univ.
Friday Evening, Dec. 29
Time will be announced in fliers at MLA
Gloria Betcher’s room at the Hilton
All Welcome! Bring Your Friends!
The first winners of the David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies and the Martin Stevens Award for Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies were announced at the MRDS Business Meeting at Kalamazoo.
David Bevington Award: Gordon Kipling
Martin Stevens Award: Steven Wright
The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society seeks nominations for its two annual Publication Awards:
1. The David Bevington Award for the Best New Book on Early Drama Studies ($150 and two years paid membership in MRDS)
2. The Martin Stevens Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies ($100 and one year paid membership in MRDS)
Deadline: January 15, 2001
Eligibility: Works by any MRDS member in good standing
Submissions: Any book or essay published within 18 months of the deadline.
Send one copy of each book or three copies of each essay to Max Harris, MRDS Vice President, Wisconsin Humanities Council, 222 South Bedford Street, Madison, WI 53703, USA.
Judges: For each category, two MRDS Council members and one non-Council member of MRDS.
Awards announcement and presentation will take place during the annual MRDS business meeting in May 2001 at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
Questions about the awards? Contact Max Harris <mrharri1@facstaff.wisc.edu>. For more information, visit the MRDS website: <http://toisondor.byu.edu/mrds/awards.html>
Eddie Cass, Michael J. Preston, and Paul Smith, The English Mumming Play: An Introductory Bibliography. London: FLS Books, 2000.
Sharon Collingwood, “L’argent et la localisation de la Farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin,” Le Moyen Français 43 (1998 [2000]): 7–20.
Andrzej Dabrówka, “Liturgiczne lacinskie dramatyzacje Wielkiego Tygodnia XI-XVI w.” Ed. Julian Lewanski. Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1999. (An edition of Latin liturgical drama from Polish sources of the 11th–16th centuries.)
Clifford Davidson, “The Anxiety of Power and Shakespeare’s Macbeth,” in The Iconography of Power: Ideas and Images of Rulership on the English Renaissance Stage, ed. Györy E. SzÅnyi and Rowland Wymer (Szeged: Institute of American and English Studies, University of Szeged, 2000): 181–204.
Clifford Davidson, “The Signs of Doomsday in Drama and Art,” Historical Reflections 26 (2000): 223–45.
Clifford Davidson, review of Michael O’Connell, The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England, in Christianity and Literature 49 (2000): 533–35.
Alan J. Fletcher, Drama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland. Studies in Early English Drama, 6. Toronto and Buffalo, N. Y.: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2000.
Maryse Forget, “La Pratique du droit dans la Farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin,” Le Moyen Français 43 (1998 [2000]): 21–39.
Teresa Jaroszewska, “Le lexique théâtral français à l’époque de la Renaissance,” Revue de Linguistique Romane 116 (2000): 438–455.
Stéphanie Le Briz-Orgeur, “A la recherche d’une écriture dramatique: conventions du dialogue dans quelques mystères,” in Perspectives Médiévales 25 (1999): 54–57.
Charles Mazouer, “La Dérision dans les mystères,” in Rire des dieux (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires, Université Blaise-Pascal, 2000): 73–83.
Charles Mazouer, “Rire et religion dans le théâtre médiéval”, Humoresques 12 (2000): 131–142.
Nerida Newbigin, edition and English translation of the “Sacra Rappresentazione di San Venanzio” of Castellano Castellani, Università degli Studi di Camerino, Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, 2000.
Graham A. Runnalls, “Le Livre de Raison de Jacques Le Gros et le Mystère de la Passion joué à Paris en 1539," Romania 118 (2000): 138–193.
Pierre Servet, “Le personnage de la Vierge dans les Mystères”, in Imagines Mariae: Représentations du personnage de la Vierge dans la poésie, le théâtre et l’éloquence entre le XIe et le XVIe siècles: Etudes recueillies par Christian Mouchel (Presses Universitaires de Lyon, Lyon, 2000): 79–125.
Comparative Drama
Spring 2000 (vol. 34, no. 1)
CATHERINE A. HENZE
“How Music Matters: Some Songs of Robert Johnson in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher”
DOUGLAS W. HAYES
“Backbiter and the Rhetoric of Detraction”
DONALD STUMP
“Marlowe’s Travesty of Virgil: Dido and Elizabethan Dreams of Empire”
Alan Hindley, ed., Drama and Community: People and Plays in Medieval Europe. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. Includes:
ROBERT L. A. CLARK
“Community versus Subject in Late-Medieval French Community Drama and Ritual”
GRAHAM A. RUNNALLS
“Religious Drama in Late-Medieval Paris”
ALAN E. KNIGHT
“Processional Theatre and the Rituals of Social Unity in Lille”
FREDERICK W. LANGLEY
“Community Drama and Community Politics in Thirteenth-Century Arras”
PHILIP BUTTERWORTH
“Prompting in Full View of the Audience: A Medieval Staging Convention”
CHRIS HUMPHREY
“Festive Drama and Community Politics in Late-Medieval Coventry”
ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON
“English Community Drama in Crisis: 1535–80"
PAMELA KING
“Contemporary Cultural Models for the Trial Plays in the York Cycle”
ALAN FLETCHER
“Performing Medieval Irish Communities”
KONRAD SCHOELL
“Individual and Social Affiliation in the Nuremberg Shrovetide Plays”
JOHN TAILBY
“Drama and the Community in South Tyrol”
WIM HUSKEN
“Cornelis Everaert and the Community of Late-Medieval Bruges”
LYNETTE MUIR
“European Communities and Medieval Drama”
and essays by Jane Dakshott and Elsa Strietman.
Early Drama, Art, and Music Review
Fall 2000 (vol. 23, no.1)
JOHN MARLIN
“The Investitute Contest and the Rise of Herod Plays in the Twelfth Century”
ANDRZEJ DABROWKA
“Polish Saint Plays of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”
M. WENDY HENNEQUIN
“‘Brykyn many bonys’: The Breaking of Bones in the Magnus Herodes”
Early Modern Literary Studies
September 2000 (vol. 6, no. 2)
IAN MacINNES
“Cheerful Girls and Willing Boys: Old and Young Bodies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”
CAROL BARTON
“‘To stand upright will ask thee skill’: The Pinnacle and the Paradigm”
MARK DOOLEY
“The Healthy Body: Desire and Sustenance in John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis”
ALIZON BRUNNING
“Jonson’s Romish Foxe: Anti-Catholic Discourse in Volpone”
NICK COX
“‘Subjected thus’: Plague and Panopticism in Richard II”
Notes by Gabriel Egan and Anthony Gilbert
For full text of articles and complete table of contents, see <http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/06-2toc.htm>. More information on Early Modern Literary Studies, including submission guidelines, is available at <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html>.
Early Theatre
2000 (vol. 3)
Abstracts of all articles are included on the Early Theatre website: <http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~reed/early/>.
PETER MEREDITH
“The City of York and its ‘Play of Pageants’”
EILEEN WHITE
“Places to Hear the Play in York”
JOHN McKINNELL
“The Medieval Pageant Wagons at York: Their Orientation and Height”
MARGARET ROGERSON
“Raging in the Streets of Medieval York”
RALPH BLASTING
“The Pageant Wagon as Iconic Site in the York Cycle”
MARTIN WALSH
“High Places and Travelling Scenes: Some Observations on the Staging of the York Cycle”
PAMELA KING
“Seeing and Hearing: Looking and Listening”
RICHARD BEADLE
“Verbal Texture and Wordplay in the York Cycle”
ALEXANDRA JOHNSTON
“‘His langage is lorne’ (31/190): The Silent Centre of the York Cycle”
Sydney Higgins and Fiorella Paino, eds., European Medieval Drama, 1998: Papers from the Third International Conference on Aspects of European Medieval Drama, Camerino, 3-5 July 1998. Camerino, Macerata: Università degli Studi di Camerino, Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, 1999. Includes:
SANDRO ORLANDO
“Letterature e performance in antichi testi romanzi (spagnoli e italiani)”
GRAHAM D. CAIE
“Drama on the Wall: Medieval Drama Illustrated by Danish Church Wall Paintings”
NERIDA NEWBIGIN
“Judas and the Jews in the Faster Easter Plays of the Roman Confraternity of the Gonfalone”
ELSA STRIETMAN
“Hand in Glove: Drama and the Community”
ANDRZEJ DABROWKA
“The Trial Scenes in Medieval Drama”
BOB GODFREY
“The Machinery of Spectacle: The Performance Dynamic of the Play of Mary Magdalene and Related Matters”
ANDRE LASCOMBES
“Ostension and Channel Untwining: A Few Notes”
JORDI BERTRAN
“The Devils’ Dance in Catalonia: A Medieval Performance from the Catalan Corpus Christi Cycle”
KATHY M. KRAUSE
“The Dramatization of the Heroine in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages”
LYNETTE R. MUIR
“René d’Anjou and the Theatre in Provence”
GRAHAM A. RUNNALLS
“Mysteries’ End in France: Performances and Texts”
FRANCESC MASSIP
“L’Inferno in scena: Presenze diaboliche nel teatro catalano medievale”
JOHN C. COLDEWEY
“Secrets of God’s Creatures: Talking Animals in Medieval Drama”
STEFANIA D’AGATA D’OTTAVI
“Dramatic Practice and Theory of Vision in the York Plays”
MARIA LUCIGNANO MARCHEGIANI
“I pastori e l’epifania dell’amore: Tradizione classica ed eredità medievale nella pastorale del poliziano”
MANUELA CARVALHO
“Reconstructing Gil Vicente: The Boat of Hell and the English Medieval Plays”
REED
Sussex, the latest volume in the series, has just been published (ed. Cameron Louis, University of Toronto Press & Brepols Publishers, 2000). Further details on ordering are available at the REED website: <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html>.
Peter Greenfield has recently assumed the editorship of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, and beginning with the 2001 issue the journal will be published at the University of Puget Sound. The RORD web page <http://www.ups.edu/faculty/greenfield/rord.html> includes tables of contents for current and upcoming volumes, submission and subscription information, and photographs of productions reviewed in the journal.
Paid-up members of MRDS will continue to receive RORD as a benefit of their membership.
The Seventeenth Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference
Public Performance/Public Ritual
December 2, 2000
Barnard College
“The Last Act: Royal Funerals and Transi Tombs in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France”
Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Professor Emerita, The City University of New York, Brooklyn College and The Graduate School
“The Monarch and the Dream”
Stephen Orgel, Stanford University
“Various Lenses for Medieval Spectacles”
Linda Marie Zaerr, Boise State University and Evelyn B. Vitz, New York University
“Performing Romance: Arthurian Interludes in Sarrasin’s Le Roman du Hem (1278)”
Nancy Freeman Regalado, New York University
“The Theater of the Pas d’armes: Performance of Aristocratic Ideology in Fifteenth-Century Burgundy”
Michelle Magallanez, New York University
“Performance Anxiety, Courtly Ritual and Making La Bella Figura in Early Modern Europe”
Anthony B. Cashman, III, College of the Holy Cross
“Self as Self-Presentation in Early Dominican Religious Life”
Dallas Denery, Stanford University
“Early Medieval Plays and the Medieval Culture of Performance: Studying the Interaction of Theatre and Public Life”
Carol Symes, Bennington College
“Priests at an Execution: The Theatrical Arts of Dying in the Fifteenth Century”
Margaret Pappano, Columbia University
“The Royal Entry and the Consecration of the City: The Antwerp Triumphs of 1549 and 1582"
Gordon Kipling, University of California, Los Angeles
“Diversity in Unity: Elizabeth’s Coronation Procession”
L. Caitlin Jorgensen, Quinnipiac University
“Performing Power: The Politics of the Viceroy’s Body in Colonial Mexico”
Alejandro Cañeque, New York University
“Speaking the Truth about Orality”
Paul Creamer, Columbia University
“Performance of, in and by Short Pious Narratives”
Adrian Tudor, University of Hull
“Heroine as Composer and Performer in Ysaÿe le Triste”
Marilyn Lawrence, New York University
“‘A Bawdy Lecture unto Ladies’: Music Speeches at Early Modern Oxford”
Felicity Henderson, Monash University
“Funeral Rites/Rights, Sites/Sights, and Sounds in Early Modern Florence”
Allison Levy, Newcomb College, Tulane University
“Public Theatricality and Performance in Late Seventeenth-Century Venice: Improvisatory Entertainments in St. Mark’s Square”
Mary Macklem, University of Pennsylvania
“Performance and Ritual in the Village Court: Drama with a Purpose”
Sherri Olson, University of Connecticut
“Eternal Rome and Cola di Rienzo’s Show of Power”
Amy Schwarz, The Frick Collection
“Public-Access Patronage: Book-Presentation from the Crowd at a Royal Procession”
Joyce Coleman, Brown University
“Music as Representation and Sacrifice in the Coronation of Richard the Lionhearted”
David Schiller, University of Georgia
“‘Mummeries allso, and Moriskors’: Performing Death”
Bill Engel, Nashville, Tenn.
“Ritual Chanting in the Renaissance Platonic Academy”
Sarah Klitenic, Trinity College, Dublin
“Performance Through the Eyes of a Medieval Poet: A Guide for the Perplexed”
Kathryn A. Duys, University of Chicago
“Penitential Reading and the Ethics of the Manuscript Page: ‘The Hours of the Cross’ in London B.L. Additional MS 37049"
Marlene Villalobos Hennessy, Columbia University
“Performative Reading: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Greban’s ‘Mystère de la Passion’“
Pamela Sheingorn, The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Robert Clark, Kansas State University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for abstracts: December 10, 2000
Saturday, February 23, 2001
University of Missouri–Kansas City
Plenary Speaker: Professor William Chester Jordan, Princeton University
“God and the Animals: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century”
Papers on any medieval topic (or panels of 3–4 papers) are welcome.
Please send abstracts by December 10, 2000 to
Prof. Jim Falls <fallsj@umkc.edu>
Dept. of History
University of Missouri–Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
or to
Prof. Kathy Krause <krausek@umkc.edu>
Assistant Professor of French
University of Missouri–Kansas City
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Deadline: December 20, 2000
March 23–24, 2001
University of Toronto
Jointly sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama
People in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance expressed their ideas about art in a variety of ways—treatises, sermons, polemics and in the works of art themselves. Papers are invited on topics related to ways in which artistic production was theorized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Papers dealing with more than one form of artistic expression (e.g. drama and music, art and poetry, drama and art, poetry and music) are particularly welcome. The Conference will include performances of Hrothsvita’s Thais and Tasso’s Aminta.
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Please send a short abstract or description of your paper to
Alexandra Johnston
Victoria College
University of Toronto
73 Queen’s Park Cresc.
Toronto M5S 1K7, Canada
<ajohnsto@chass.utoronto.ca>
CALL FOR PAPERS
Extended Deadline: December 31, 2000
THIRD CONFERENCE
July 5–8, 2001
The University of Western Australia
Perth, Australia
The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) will hold its third conference July 5–8, 2001, at St George’s College, The University of Western Australia. The theme is “Metamorphoses: Peoples, Places, Times.” Expressions of interest are sought from scholars in all fields of medieval and early modern studies, and at all stages of their careers.
Proposals for papers and for sessions are invited by December 31, 2000, for any of the following:
Individual paper of 20 minutes
Organized session(s) of 3 x 20 minute papers OR 2 x 30 minute papers
Panel or chaired discussion of 90 minutes
Abstracts of papers will be required by March 1, 2001.
To indicate your interest in participating, please contact the conference convenors:
Andrew Lynch
Department of English
Email: alynch@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, WA 6907 AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 8 9380 2185
Fax: +61 8 9380 1030
Philippa Maddern
Department of History
Email: pipma@arts.uwa.edu.au
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, WA 6907 AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 8 9380 2178
Fax: +61 8 9380 1069
For more information, visit the website at <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/ANZAMEMS/conf2001.html>.
Deadline: December 31, 2000
Intending competitors for this annual prize should be broadly sympathetic to the approaches of the Centre for English Local History or should be working in some other way constructively to advance scholarship in the subject. It is hoped that investigations will illustrate significant variations from the general picture presented in the textbooks.
The value of the prize is £100. Compositions which have already been published, or which have been awarded any other prize, are not eligible. In judging the entries, account will be taken of form as well as substance.
Submit essays not exceeding 20,000 words in length on or before December 31, 2000. Communications, marked John Nichols Prize, should be addressed to Dave Postles, Department of English Local History, University of Leicester, Marc Fitch House, 5 Salisbury Road, Leicester, LE1 7QR.
For more details regarding submission guidelines, visit <http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/nich.html> or contact Dave Postles <pot@le.ac.uk>.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Deadline: January 3, 2001
March 7–10, 2001
Sheraton Oldtown Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Shakespeare in Popular Culture area of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association invites proposals for papers and panels on Shakespeare in popular culture, including, but not limited to, science fiction and fantasy, comics, the Internet, television, radio, theme parks, children’s literature, popular music, and advertising.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words in length to:
Alison Taufer, Associate Professor of English
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, California 90032
Phone: 323-343-4152
Fax: 323-343-6470
e-mail: ataufer@calstatela.edu or cabadt@earthlink.net
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Deadline: January 15, 2001
March 30–April 1, 2001
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, New York
“Vagabond—Somewhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide”
The collective of the 9th annual Crossing The Boundaries Conference invites members from various cultural spaces and different academic disciplines to examine the issues of cultural groups/individuals who travel for a variety of reasons and motivations.
Some possible themes:
Accounts of exploration and expedition
Crusades
Pilgrimages: secular and religious
Tourists/tourism
The refugee experience
Nomads
Collectors and collectibles
The flâneur
The Hobo
Traveling salespeople
Migrant workers
Issues of immigration/emigration
The “Grand Tour”
Homelessness
Rites of passage
We invite paper and panel proposals, and encourage creative, informal, and interactive presentations (video, performance art, installations, interactive multimedia, etc.).
Completed panel proposals are encouraged and enthusiastically received. This conference has been established and is run by graduate students.
Abstracts should be submitted along with a C.V., a separate listing of name, paper title, institutional and department affiliation, preferred mailing address, phone number, and email address. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for any materials you would like returned to you. Submit one-page (250 words) abstracts or presentation proposals by January 15, 2001 to:
Crossing the Boundaries IX
C/O Art History Department
SUNY Binghamton
Box 6000, Binghamton NY, 13902
Or e-mail your proposal or questions to:
Sara J. Yehl <bj93777@binghamton.edu>
Department of Art History
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: January 30, 2001
University of Birmingham
May 26–27, 2001
Jointly sponsored by the Departments of English and French.
Concepts of performance and location are increasingly pervasive in many different disciplines. This conference will seek to bring together and explore these terms in a provocatively interdisciplinary environment.
Twenty-minute papers are invited on topics such as:
Mapping
The everyday
Staging the place/Placing the stage
Postcolonial space
The politics of cartography
Performing frontiers
Topographies of gender
International cinema
Technology
Identity
Migration
Literature
An abstract of no more than 200 words should be sent to the following address by January 30th, 2001:
J. Holmes & E. Jones
Postgraduate Office
School of Humanities
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Contact <joneseh@hhs.bham.ac.uk> or <jholmesj@hotmail.com>, or visit the website at <http://www.artsweb.bham.ac.uk/artsFrenchStudies/place.htm> for more information.
Saturday, March 24, 2001
Sponsored by the Teaching Literature Group
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
An open forum of ideas and methods in the teaching of literature.
For more information, visit <http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~teachlit>.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2001
The Folger Shakespeare Library will host an NEH Summer Institute for college faculty from June 25 to August 3, 2001. Joined by a distinguished cast of visiting faculty members, Pamela H. Smith and Pamela O. Long will co-direct “Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe.” The institute will open up a wide-ranging and carefully nuanced investigation of different strands and shifting understandings of experience in the early modern period. It will explore an increasing reliance on instrumentation as well as other material and intellectual strategies for the validation of knowledge claims. This interdisciplinary institute accordingly encourages historians of science, cultural historians, art historians, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, literary critics, and historians of technology to apply.
Selected participants will examine key texts (many in their original or early printings) that affect the histories of practices such as painting, architecture, cartography, alchemy, medicine, and performance. They will focus on the technologies that drove change and sustained its effects. These technologies may be as specific as the development of artists’ perspective or as general as the advent of the printing press. In each case, participants will attend to the habits of mind that shaped a new empirical method of philosophizing and a new way of viewing nature. They will also adapt their research for classroom instruction by selecting and annotating a set of images to feature in a website posting.
For more information, including a week-by-week description of the institute, its visiting faculty, and an application form, please consult <http://www.folger.edu/institute/nintro.html>.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Series Editor: Helen Ostovich, McMaster University
This series presents original research on theatre histories and performance histories; the time period covered is from about 1500 to the early 18th century. Studies in which women’s activities are a central feature of discussion are especially of interest; this may include women as financial or technical support (patrons, musicians, dancers, seamstresses, wig-makers) or house support staff (e.g., gatherers), rather than performance per se. We also welcome critiques of early modern drama that take into account the production values of the plays and rely on period records of performance.
Proposals should take the form of either
1. a preliminary letter of inquiry, briefly describing the project; or
2. a formal prospectus including: abstract, table of contents, sample chapter, estimate of length, estimate of the number and type of illustrations to be included,
and a c.v.
Please send a copy of either type of proposal to both the series editor and the publisher, at the addresses below:
Professor Helen Ostovich
Dept of English, CNH-321
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9 Canada
E-mail: <ostovich@mcmaster.ca>
Erika Gaffney
Editor
Ashgate Publishing Company
131 Main Street
Burlington, VT 05401-5600 USA
March 29-31, 2001
Chicago, Illinois
Sessions include the following:
Early Modern Spanish Theater: Reshaping Traditions
Bruce Burningham, “Stage Fright: Anxieties of Performance in Golden Age Dramatic Theory”
Belén Atienza, “Belardo el furioso y Don Quijote: Locura, lectura, y celos entre Lope y Cervantes”
Rocio Rodríguez-del Rio, “’Mujeres de armas tomar;: Ana Caro’s El conde Partinuplés and the Discourse of Chivalry”
Gender Performance in the Renaissance
Cristina León Alfar, “’Blood Will Have Blood’: Lady Macbeth and the Trouble with Gender”
Barney Latimer, “’Forbidden Mixtures’: Nature, Gender, and the Monstrous in Marvell’s Gardens”
David Damstra, “Liminal Borders in Sidney’s Arcadia”
The Word “Performance” and the Performance of Words in Shakespeare’s England: Theater, Gender, Text
Mary Thomas Crane, “To act, to do, to perform: What was Performance in Early Modern England?”
Susan C. Frye, “Performing Characters”
Barbara Hodgdon, “Author’s Pen(s) and Actors’ Bodies: Editing as Re-Performance”
English Renaissance Drama
Lisa Dickson, “Spectacles of Discipline: Penalty on the Renaissance Stage”
Mary Trull, “’Odious Ballads’: Genre and Helena’s Public Roles in All’s Well That Ends Well”
Charles C. Whitney, “Pathos, Guarini, and the Quarto of King Lear”
Lara Kwalurn, “God’s Chosen: The Jew and the Elect in Sixteenth-Century Drama”
Remembering and Dismembering in Early Modern Drama
Regina M. Buccola, “’Change You, Madam’: The Fairy’s Part in Cymbeline”
Elizabeth Charlebois, “The Heart of the Matter: Embodying Faith in John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore”
Jonathan Walker, “Revenging by the Book: Making Bodies Make Sense in The Spanish Tragedy
Racial Knowledge, Alien Spectacles
Julia M. Garrett, “Alien Excesses: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and the Tartars”
Francesca Royster, “White-on-White Violence: Whiteness, Media and Cultural Breakdown in Julie Taymor’s Titus Andronicus”
Rituals of Majesty in Renaissance Italy
Matteo Casini, “The Majesty of the Doge”
Marcello Fantoni, “The Divinity of the Medici Grand-Dukes (1550-1700)”
Giovanni Ricci, “The ‘Royal’ Rituals of the Este (1450-1550)”
“Keen whips I’ld wear as rubies”: Surviving Siblings in the English Renaissance Drama
Lisa Hopkins, “’O brother, by your hand?’: The Whore in Tis Pity”
Emily Gray, “’Thy Sister’s Sister’: Naming Luciana in A Comedy of Errors”
Christine Daley, “A Theoretical Tour of Tis Pity She’s a Wore: Cultural Materialism, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis”
Religious Drama: Criticism from the Stage
Patricia Demers, “Reformation Playwrights and Their Female Models”
Kristina Rutledge, “Jesus as Lawbreaker in the N-Town plays”
Sally Jones, “Providence versus Reason: Lope de Vega’s El Nuevo Mundo and Sor Juana’s Divino Narciso Loa”
Tiffany Jennifer Eberle, “Mankind and the Politics of ‘Predicación’”
Religious Drama: Women as Dramatists and as Subjects in Italian Theatre
Elissa B. Weaver, “The Religious Theater of Antonia Tanini and Bernardo Pulci: A Collaboration?”
Kate Matthews, “’Exchange your clothes’: the Sacre Rappresentazione of Antonia Pulci”
Ellen I. Case, “Transformations of Judith in ‘The Devout Representation of Judith’”
Religious Drama: Drama and Reformation in England
Thomas Rist, “Depictions of the Dead in Renaissance Drama”
Sean Kevin Lawrence, “Grace and Negotiation: Doctor Faustus as a Religious Play:
Karen E. Sawyer, “’Doctryne Evangelicall’ and ‘The Resurrection of our Lord’”
James Stokes, “Religious Drama inLincoln during the Reformation”
Medieval European Drama in Translation
<http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/engl/drama/index.htm>
An online bibliography, prepared by Steve Wright, of published English translations of early European drama representing eight different languages (Latin,
French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Cornish, Welsh, Croatian).
The Mystery Plays 25 Years On
<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/reporter/452/mysteryp.htm>
An account of the revival of processional wagon performances (and other plays) recently written by G. R. Rastall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the York
Cycle at Leeds University, with special emphasis on the Leeds performances.
Middle English Moral Comedies
<http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/gnecastr/drama>
Includes complete plain-text versions of Castle of Perseverance, Dux Moraud, Everyman, Hickscorner, Lucidus and Dubius, Mankind, Mundus et Infans,
Occupation and Idleness, Pride of Life, Wisdom, and Youth.
Actors’ Rôles from Medieval France
<http://toisondor.byu.edu/fmddp/roles/>
Two articles by Graham Runnalls, including editions of several actors’ rôles.
French Medieval Drama Database Project
<http://toisondor.byu.edu/fmddp>
Graham Runnalls’ “Bibliographie des Mystères et Miracles Français” has been updated and now includes almost 800 titles.
Medieval Sourcesonline
<http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/>
A full-text database from Manchester University Press containing over three thousand pages of medieval source documents. Subscription required.
Poculi Ludique Societas
<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~medieval/www/pls/>
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
<http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/>
New offerings on the ACMRS site include the Calendar of Events and the ACMRS Fall Newsletter.
The Marlowe Society of America Homepage
<http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/marlowesoc/>
The Marlowe Society of America serves as a forum for exchange of information between scholars, critics, and other interested parties engaged in the study of
Marlowe’s writings, life, times, and related matters.
REED Theatre Resource Page
<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html>
The recently updated site includes a new section for local history links.
PROSOP-L discussion group
PROSOP-L provides a discussion forum for topics relating to ancient, Byzantine, and medieval prosopography. To subscribe, send email to
LISTSERV@VM.SC.EDU with the following line in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE PROSOP-L first_name last_name
Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale Française)
<http://gallica.bnf.fr>
Images of several French mystery plays are available, including 16th-century editions of Actes des Apostres, Saincte Hostie, and Institution de l’Ordre
des Freres Prescheurs. Follow links to Catalogues and type in key words.
The Duchess of Malfi
<http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Malfi/malfi_home.htm>
Complete text of John Webster’s play, with notes and (soon) commentary. Site prepared by Larry A. Brown.
MRDS On the Web
<http://toisondor.byu.edu/mrds>
Le Théâtre Médiéval (l’Université de Haute-Bretagne, Rennes)
<http://www.uhb.fr/alc/medieval>
Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD)
<http://www.ups.edu/faculty/greenfield/rord.html>
Do you have a site you’d like to see listed on the Digital Resources page? Send the URL to Jesse Hurlbut (jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu).
In June, the University of California at Irvine presented a production of the Castle of Perseverance, directed by Robert Cohen, with a text adapted by Edgar Schell and original music by Alan Terricciano. The production comprised nearly forty undergraduate actors, designers and stage managers.
Schell described his version of the text as an attempt to adopt a theatrical idiom suited to modern actors and audiences, while preserving the play’s action and some of the flavor of its verses. The manuscript used as a basis for the adaptation was originally intended for performance by a touring company; it includes a stage plan and some indications of costumes and props.
Photos of the production are available at <http://www.arts.uci.edu/cohen/castlephotos.html>.
In November, the Marlowe Project and the Arts Ministry of Church for All Nations in Manhattan jointly sponsored productions of “The Woman Taken in Adultery,” “The Conversion of Saint Paul” (from the Digby codex), and “The Prodigal Son” (Courtois d’Arras). The productions were directed by Jeff Dailey, artistic director of the Marlowe Project. All texts were modern English adaptations.
French Farce in Action stages comedies from the 15th and 16th centuries in the original French for universities, conferences and festivals both nationally and internationally. For information, please contact:
Donald Perret <dperret@emerson.edu>
Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing
Emerson College
100 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
In accordance with the MRDS Constitution, the Nominating Committee announces its nomination of Martin Walsh and Pamela Sheingorn for the office of Vice President in the Election of 2002. Additional nominations are welcome in accordance with Article 5, which reads: “Nominations shall also be made by petition of twenty members of the Society in writing to the Secretary-Treasurer. Such petitions must be received three months prior to the annual meeting” (e.g., May 2001).
Nominations have been made for the following positions. Please vote on the enclosed ballot and return with your dues by January 31, 2001.
Council Members (2 positions)
David Bevington
Philip Butterworth
Gordon Kipling
Kim Yates
Biographies of new candidates:
David Bevington
David Bevington teaches at the University of Chicago in English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of From “Mankind” to Marlowe, 1962, Tudor Drama and Politics, 1968, and Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare’s Language of Gesture, 1984. He has edited the Complete Works of Shakespeare in paperback for Bantam (1988) and for Longman (4th edition, updated, 1997). He is the editor of Medieval Drama (1975) and The Macro Plays (1972). He has edited individual plays as well, including Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV (the Oxford Shakespeare), Antony and Cleopatra (the New Cambridge Shakespeare), and Troilus and Cressida (the Arden Shakespeare), John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao, Endymion, and Midas, Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (co-edited) and The Jew of Malta, and five major plays of Marlowe (co-edited). The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque appeared in 1998, coedited with Peter Holbrook and published by Cambridge University Press. He is the senior editor of a forthcoming Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama, is senior editor of the Student Revels Editions, is one of the senior editors of the Revels series, and is one of the senior editors of the forthcoming Complete Works of Ben Jonson.
Philip Butterworth
Philip Butterworth is Reader in Medieval Theatre at the University of Leeds, Bretton Hall. He has presented a number of papers on pyrotechnics and staging conventions at Kalamazoo. Similarly, the Medieval Institute at Kalamazoo has published a number of his articles. His latest book is Theatre of Fire, published by The Society For Theatre Research, London. He is currently working on a complementary volume to Theatre of Fire which is to be titled Theatre of Magic.
Gordon Kipling
Gordon Kipling earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago, and then went directly to UCLA, where he has been teaching in the English department for the past 32 years. The latter includes periods spent as a Guggenheim fellow, an NEH fellow, a Fulbright research fellow, and as a director of the University of California’s Education Abroad Program in London. He has published three books on courtly festivals and theatrical spectacle: The Triumph of Honour: Burgundian Origins of the Tudor Renaissance (Leiden University Press, 1977); The Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne (London: OUP, 1990), and Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998). The latter received both the Grundler Prize in Medieval Studies and the Bevington Prize for Early Drama Studies.
Kim Yates
Kim Yates completed her Ph.D. under Sandy Johnston’s supervision at the University of Toronto in 1997. Her dissertation was titled “The Critical Heritage of the York Cycle.” She has been involved with the performance of early drama for 10 years with Poculi Ludique Societas, and she co-wrote the modernization of the whole York Cycle for the performance in Toronto in 1998. She is currently teaching English (Chaucer, and Drama to 1642) as a sessional instructor for the University of Toronto.
How many live performers were included in the representation of Paradise for the fifteenth-century miracle play and feast of the Annunciation in the Church of San Felice in Florence?
Q: Les Trois Amants de la Croix meet at the cross in what disguises?
A: One of the main characters in this French farce is the Lady who, after she receives ten ducats as a demonstration of Martin’s love, asks him to meet her at the cross at ten o’clock that evening dressed as a Priest. When a second lover, Gautier, later gives her ten ecus, he is instructed to meet her at the cross at eleven o’clock dressed as a dead man. Guillaume then offers her ten royals and agrees to dress as a devil and eagerly plans to meet her at midnight at the cross. Of course, from the beginning, the Lady never intended to show up and the three suitors are startled and disappointed to find their respective rendez-vous foiled. At first, they are taken in by the costumes and are each afraid that God has sent the others as punishment for their intended sins. After they finally discover that they are all friends shamefully taken in by the same lady, they all swear to each other to keep their adventure a secret. The Lady predicted her own success early on in the play when she observed that young women can easily distract men from their amorous goals “for we frequently satisfy them with promises, and nothing more.”
Source: Gustave Cohen, ed. Recueil de Farces françaises inédites du XVe siècle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy, 1949, pp. 57-66.
President: Milla Riggio, Trinity College (Hartford, CT):
milla.riggio@mail.trincoll.edu
Vice President: Max Harris, Wisconsin Humanities Council:
mrharri1@facstaff.wisc.edu
Secretary/Treasurer: Gloria Betcher, Iowa State Univ.:
gbetcher@iastate.edu
Council Members
Alan Knight (2003), Penn State Univ.:
aek@psu.edu
Claire Sponsler (2003), Univ. of Iowa:
Claire-Sponsler@uiowa.edu
Shirley E. Carnahan (2002), Univ. of Colorado, Boulder:
carnahan@spot.colorado.edu
Garrett PJ Epp (2002), Univ. of Alberta:
Garrett.Epp@ualberta.ca
James Stokes (2001), Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point:
jstokes@uwsp.edu
Paul Whitfield White (2001), Purdue Univ.:
paul@purdue.edu
© 2000 Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Editor: Jesse D. Hurlbut
Assistant Editor: Katherine Senzee
Department of French and Italian
4002 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu