MRDS Annual Awards
Winners
David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies
| 2000 |
Gordon Kipling. Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. |
| 2001 |
Michael O'Connell. The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. |
| 2002 |
Lawrence M. Clopper. Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
and
Max Harris. Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. |
| 2003 |
Glenn Ehrstine. Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern, 1523-1555. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 85. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002. |
| 2004 |
Meg Twycross and Sarah Carpenter. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. |
| 2005 |
Andrew Gurr. The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
and
Eckehard Simon. Die Anfänge des Weltlichen Deutschen Schauspiels, 1370-1530: Untersuchung und Dokumentation. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 2003. |
| 2006 |
Philip Butterworth. Magic on the Early English Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
Martin Stevens Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies
| 2000 |
Stephen K. Wright. "Joseph as Mother, Jutta as Pope: Gender and Transgression in Medieval German Drama." Theatre Journal 51 (1999). |
| 2001 |
Gloria J. Betcher. "Translating a Labour Dispute in the Cornish Ordinalia Within a Legal Context." Fourteenth-Century England, Vol. I, ed. Nigel Saul (London: Boydell Press, 2000). |
| 2002 |
Theresa Coletti, "Paupertas est donum Dei: Hagiography, Lay Religion, and the Economics of Salvation in the Digby Mary Magdalene," Speculum 76, no. 2 (April 2001). |
| 2003 |
Carol Symes, "The Appearance of Early Vernacular Plays: Forms, Functions, and the Future of Medieval Theater," Speculum 77, no. 3 (July 2002). |
| 2004 |
Alexandra F. Johnston, "The Feast of Corpus Christi in the West Country," Early Theatre 6.1 (June 2003). |
| 2005 |
Max Harris and Lada Čale Feldman, "Blackened Faces and a Veiled Woman: The Early Korčula Moreška," Comparative Drama 37 (2004): 297-320. |
| 2006 |
Barbara D. Palmer, "Early Modern Mobility: Players, Payments, and Patrons," Shakespeare Quarterly 56 (2005), pp. 259-305. |
Alexandra Johnston Award for Best New Conference Paper in Early Drama Studies by a Graduate Student
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