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February 1993
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 15:14:43 -0500
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From: GR4302@SIUCVMB.BITNET
Subject: Abe and Izzy plays
Milla & others: This is a reference you probably already have, but
j.i.c., eh? Bob's comment made me think of an article by John Eliott,Jr.--
"The Sacrifice of Isaac as Comedy and Tragedy" which can be found in
*Medieval English Drama* Eds. Taylor and Nelson, U of Chicago P, 1972.
Elliott, among other things, discusses the essential differences between
the Mystery cycle Abraham and Isaac plays and later renditions, such as
Beze's. On the surface Beze's seems similar, but the rhetorical structure
betrays a movement away from Medieval figuring (which is comedy, figuring
eventual redemption) toward the classic pathos inherent in the situation
of a man being commanded to slay his son. The Bible is the source for
both the Mystery A&I tradition and Beze's play (& others like his), but
the philosophies informing them and their purposes differ greatly.
Jeff Taylor
SIUC
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 12:44:16 EST
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From: FREJDH@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: Abraham
In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:23:00 EST from
Here are some more Abraham sitings: Hebert, Michele. _Bibliotheque
Nationale, Departement des Estampes. Inventaire des gravures des ecoles
du nord 1440-1550._ 2 vols. Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1982.
At the end of the second volume is an index by subject matter. There are
almost a dozen references to Abraham. Of particular interest is a series by
Georg Pencz (1500-1550) of scenes from the life of Abraham. This is a
great place to look for iconographical support material from this time
period.
Jesse Hurlbut
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 22:00:00 EST
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From: MRIGGIO@TRINCC.BITNET
Subject: Re: Abraham
Dear Jesse:
Many thanks for the references. I will try to follow them through.
Meanwhile, did you get my reply earlier today? I appreciate the
support.
Best,
Milla
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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 16:01:21 WET-DST
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From: Ray Lurie
Subject: Subscription?
A message was forwarded to me by the REED network from PERFORM that looked
interesting. What is the scope of this networks coverage, and is it
possible to subscribe?
Sincerely,
Ray Lurie
Universite de Geneve
Switzerland
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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 15:26:21 -0500
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From: WRIGHTS@CUA.BITNET
Subject: Re: Subscription?
The REED network is a discussion group for people interested in
the work of the Records of Early English Drama project and other similar
research to uncover and interpret documents associated with early
performance practices. The list is not very active at present, although
there are brief flurries of activity from time to time. I'm not sure
if postings are archived or not--if they are, you could browse through
past postings to see what sort of topics and announcements have come
up. To subscribe, send the usual SUB message to the listserv:
listserv@utoronto
I hope this helps.
Steve Wright
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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 16:05:00 EST
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From: MRIGGIO@TRINCC.BITNET
Subject: Re: A&I
Dear Nerida Newbigin:
I am now writing my A & I piece, and your reference to the Isaac and
Oedipal connection is very exciting to me, but I haven't been able to
get the book easily. Can you extrapolate further? What do you remember
of the argument? I'm still trying to get my hands on the book.
Also, I have a microfilm of the Belcari play, so any furthre information
you might be able to provide about composition, staging history, etc.,
of that play would be terrific!
Thanks for your help. Will you be coming back to this country again soon?
I recall a very pleasant conversation we had in Kamalazoo some time back.
Best,
Milla Riggio
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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 16:07:04 -0500
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From: REED Project
Subject: Re: New Sources
In-Reply-To: <9301220344.AA04852@epas.utoronto.ca>; from "MICHAEL L NORTON" at
Jan 21, 93 1:09 pm
Dear Michael,
I apologise for having to reply via the list, but I do not have your
address. Thanks for the very helpful list of citations. Please send
me your e-mail address, so that I can send a longer response!
Abigail
young@epas.utoronto.ca OR reed@epas.utoronto.ca
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 16:27:00 EST
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From: WRIGHTS@CUA.BITNET
Subject: Reproductions of Fouquet's miniature?
Does anyone know offhand where I could find a COLOR reproduction
of Jean Fouquet's famous miniature of the Martyrdom of St Apollonia?
Thanks in advance,
Steve Wright
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 01:45:00 CST
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From: Bob Clark
Subject: Sainte Apolline
Steve,
I have a color slide of the Fouquet miniature that I picked up at
Chantilly. I'd be happy to have a print made or to send you the slide
so that you could have one made, if you'd like to go this route.
Cheers,
Bob Clark
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 10:55:34 EST
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From: CLOPPER@UCS.INDIANA.EDU
Subject: RE: Reproductions of Fouquet's miniature?
Steven--
See Jean Fouquet, The Hours of Etienne Chevalier (N>Y>: George
Braziller, 1978), plate 45.
Larry Clopper
Indiana University
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 13:35:02 -0500
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From: REED Project
Subject: Interludes
I sent on the request which came to PERFORM for information on
interludes in England to the REED-L discussion list, and garnerd the
following response. I hope it is useful!
Abigail Ann Young
reed@epas.utoronto.ca
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> >From jforrest@zeppo.hm.uc.edu Sat Feb 13 10:03:48 1993
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 93 09:20:45 -0500
> From: jforrest@zeppo.hm.uc.edu
> Message-Id: <9302131420.AA02844@zeppo.hm.uc.edu>
> Subject: interludes
>
> I saw your request for info on wedding intrludes on PERFORM
> as retransmitted to the REED list. The following may not be useful
> since the source is originally French, but it does show that at
> the beginning of the sixteenth century interludes were used as
> part of wedding celebrations (as one might suspect) -- as were
> moresques, which is what I care about. The text is from:
>
> Copland, Robert, The history of Helyas, knight of the swan,
> translated by Robert Copland from the French version published in Paris
> in 1504. (London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1512, Type facsimile: New York: Grolier
> Club, 1901) sig.A5
>
>
> For the nyght before the day of weddynge for ye honour &
> magnyfycence of ye good kynge Oryant & of his noble loue Beatryce
> were made moryskes, comedyes, daunces, interludes, & all maner of
> joyous sportes in the kinges palays, where as were many grete
> prynces and knyghtes of renowne.
>
>
> John Forrest
> Anthropology
> SUNY Purchase
> jforrest@zeppo.hm.uc.edu
>
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 20:03:00 CST
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From: Bob Clark
Subject: Conf. at Penn State on Med. Theatre
I don't believe I've seen anything on PERFORM yet about the upcoming
(March 25-27) conference at Penn State University, "The Stage As Mirror:
Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe." It looks very promising. The
speakers are Richard Beadle, Lynette Muir, Martin Stevens, Stephen
Spector, Alexandra Johnston, Barrie Dobson, Pamela Sheingorn, Alan
Knight, and Gerard Nijsten. Activities include a medieval banquet
concluding with the production of a biblical play, "Susanna and the
Elders," one of the processional plays from Lille that Prof. Knight has
been studying. Also, on Saturday Prof. Muir will conduct a worshop on
medieval drama.
The address for advance registration (by March 11) is:
Judith L. Shawley
The Pennsylvania State University
Dept. of History
601 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802
tel. (814) 865-1367
There is a separate address and number for those desiring further
information about program content:
Vickie L. Ziegler
Dept. of German
The Pennsylvania University
S323 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-7484
Registration for the conference is $25; the banquet costs $19.00.
I hope I haven't pre-empted a posting by the organizers, but I thought
that list members who haven't received the mailing would want this
information as soon as possible.
Cheers,
Bob Clark
Kansas State Univ.
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 11:56:00 EST
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From: AEK@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject: Medieval Theatre Conference
I was just about to post an announcement of our upcoming conference on
medieval theatre, when Bob Clark beat me to it. I'm glad to know the
news is getting around. Here is some supplemental information on the
conference.
--Alan Knight (aek@psuvm), Penn State University
THE STAGE AS MIRROR:
CIVIC THEATRE IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE
An International Conference
to be held at
The Pennsylvania State University
March 25-27, 1993
The conference will explore the function of late medieval
theatre in England, France, and The Netherlands, examining the
relationships among these three countries as reflected in late
medieval civic spectacles. There will be performances of plays
from N-Town and from Lille and a workshop on medieval theatre,
involving a German play of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. There
will also be a medieval banquet, followed by a performance of
the Lille _Susannah and the Elders_. The speakers will be:
Richard Beadle (Cambridge) - "Small-Town Drama in Late Medieval
East Anglia"
Barrie Dobson (Cambridge) - "Craft Guilds and City: The Social
Background of the York Mystery Plays Reassessed"
Alexandra Johnston (Toronto) - "The Continental Connection:
English Drama and the Low Countries"
Alan E. Knight (Penn State) - "The Representation of Susannah
and the Elders in Late Medieval Theatre"
Lynette Muir (Leeds) - "The Play of God in Medieval Europe"
Gerard Nijsten (Amsterdam) - "Feasts and Public Spectacle:
Late Medieval Drama and Performance.
Pamela Sheingorn (Baruch College) - "The Bodily Embrace:
Gesture and Gender in Later Medieval Drama"
Stephen Spector (SUNY, Stony Brook) - "N-Town and the Case
of Civic Drama"
Martin Stevens (CUNY) - "Herod as Carnival King"
For further information and registration forms, write to:
Judith L. Shawley
Department of History
601 Oswald Tower
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 01:54:00 EST
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From: MRIGGIO@TRINCC.BITNET
Subject: Re: Conf. at Penn State on Med. Theatre
A WORD ABOUT THE PENN STATE CONFERENCE:
Jesse Hurlbut has been asked to take his production of
"The Pregnant Abbess" to this conference. It is an absolutely
delightful staging of Alan Knight's translation of one of the
Lille plays. Jesse -- will you be able to take the play? If
so, please add to the announcement of things available. If not,
shucks, it's a real loss to all who attend.
--Milla Riggio
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 13:59:02 CST
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From: Jody Enders
Dear Colleagues,
Sorry to come on to the network with bad news; but I thought that
recipients of PERFORM would like to know the eminent musicologist
Howard Mayer Brown died suddenly in Venice on Saturday. A tragic loss
for all of us.
Jody Enders
Jody Enders
Dept. of French and Italian, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 893-3111/4696 FAX: (805) 893-8826
E MAIL: jenders@humanitas.ucsb.edu
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 23:30:00 EST
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From: AEK@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject: Re: Conf. at Penn State on Med. Theatre
In-Reply-To: MRIGGIO AT TRINCC.BITNET -- Mon, 22 Feb 1993 01:54:00 EST
Thanks, Milla, for your inquiry about Jesse Hurlbut's production of
_The Pregnant Abbess_. I just now received Jesse's response, and he
will be bringing the play to the Penn State Conference. It is scheduled
for performance on Friday, March 26.
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 08:33:00 EST
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From: MRIGGIO@TRINCC.BITNET
Subject: Re: Conf. at Penn State on Med. Theatre
Dear Alan Knight:
Can you send me a hard copy of anything you'd like me to say
about the Penn State Conference in the spring newsletter? The
letter won't be out in time for people to actually attend the
conference because of it, but we can include all the speakers,
the performances, a regular lineup. Much of that information
was in your posting the other day on PERFORM, and I could simply
use that, but I wanted you to have a chance to put it together as
you would like it to appear, and at this point (though not for long),
I can't transfer e-mail to wp, though of course I can print it out.
Actually: if you can, informationon a wp 5.1 or 5.0 disk would
be the best: no retyping necessary, a guaranteed accurate listing.
And I can return the disk so you don't have to give it up. What
do you think?
--Milla Riggio
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 10:55:16 -0400
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From: SHARON MAZER
Subject: Jewish performance in Middle Ages?
Date sent: 25-FEB-1993
Does anyone have information regarding Jewish performance practices in the
European or English Middle Ages?
-
Sharon Mazer
Email: mazers@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU
Phone: 212/496-8021
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 17:37:54 PST
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From: orgel@LELAND.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Re: Jewish performance in Middle Ages?
In-Reply-To: <9302252148.AA18874@leland.Stanford.EDU>; from "SHARON MAZER" at
Feb 25, 93 10:55 am
Regula Evitt, English Dept, San Francisco State Univ., has been working
on Jews and theater in the Middle Ages, and gave an interesting paper
on the subject at last year's RSA conference. I don't know whether she's
on e-mail, but snailmail might produce a copy of the paper.
Stephen Orgel
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 21:17:28 EST
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From: Steven
Subject: Re: Jewish performance in Middle Ages?
In-Reply-To: Message of Fri,
26 Feb 1993 17:37:54 PST from
In an issue of the glossy art journal FMR (published by Franco Maria Ricci) the
re was a very handsomely illustrated article on illuminated Purim manuscripts.
Some discussion of Purim plays, I think. Sorry I can't be more precise about
the dates or the coverage, but the magazine only started publication in 1984, a
nd I thumbed through a fascinating stack of them last summer.
Steve Urkowitz (Surcc@CUNYVM)
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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 15:10:40 -0500
Reply-To: "Thomas G. Bishop"
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Thomas G. Bishop"
Subject: Ohio Shakespeare Conference 1993
Cc:
Reply-To: tgb2@po.CWRU.Edu (Thomas G. Bishop)
The Ohio Shakespeare COnference for 1993 will take as its title
"There the Whole Palace Open'd": Court and Society in Jacobean England
The conference will be held in Cleveland under the joint sponsorship of
Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University.
The proceedings will open 8 pm Thursday March 25th with a welcome and Plenary
Address by Prof Stephen Orgel and close after the Conference Banquet on
Saturday March 27th
The conference proceedings will be conducted at the Marriott-Society Center
Hotel in downtown Cleveland.
The title expresses the conference's intent, which is to open up all the
relationships between the Jacobean court and the rest of Jacobean culture to
inquiry in all the relevant disciplines, by both scholars and practitioners.
Ben Jonson's masque "Oberon, the Fairy Prince" will be presented in CWRU's
elegant Excelsior Ballroom, and will provide a rich opportunity for conference
participants to experience a significant work in a genre almost never realized
on stage, in a production that will place equal emphasis on all the elements
of scene, dance, music, costume, speech and action.
The program surrounding the production will include plenary addresses by
leading scholars in various departments of early modern cultural history.
Invited speakers are to be:
Prof. Leeds Barroll, "Queen Anna and the Appropriation of the Masque"
Prof. Peter Holman, "Jacobean Dance Music"
Prof. Frtiz Levy, "The Return to Italy"
Prof. Stephen Orgel, "The Dream, the State, the Stage"
Prof. Annabel Patterson "Bevis was Believed"
Thirty papers and presentations besides will be offered, together with a
plenary discussion of the production of "Oberon" with the artists-professional
team responsible for the staging, including:
Mr. Barrie Rutter (Stage Director)
Mr. Ken Pierce (Choreographer and Lead Dancer)
Mr. David Douglass (Music Director)
Mr E. Guy Hare (Designer, after Inigo Jones)
During the conferecne weekend Claire Bloom will be appearing in a one-woman
show on Shakespeare's women at the Great Lakes Theater Festival (216-241-6000)
and a biracial production of "The Tempest" will open at Karamu House
(216-795-7070).
Interested parties should call the CSU Department of English (216) 687-3955
or detach and return the form below.
Hotel reservations (@ a special rate of $75 per night) should be made soon
at 1-800-228-9290, specifying Marriott-Society Center and Ohio Shakespeare.
Conferees who plan to fly to Cleveland should consider taking advantage of
the cheap travel arrangement the Conference has with USAir: to arrange
low fares to the conference, call 1-800-334-8644 (8am-9pm EST) and obtain
reservations under Gold File Number 36940036 "Oberon" conference.
The conference acknowledges sponsorship from USAir, the Cleveland Foundation,
John Carroll University and Baldwin-Wallace College, as well as Case Western
Reserve University and Cleveland State University.
We look forward to seeing you in March.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Name________________________________ Institution__________________________
Address______________________________________________________________________
I/We will attend the 1993 Ohio Shakespeare Conference. Number of persons____
I enclose the conference registration fee of #75 per person
(Graduate students $25) Fee includes tickets and transportation to
"Oberon" admission to all conference sessions.
Amount ___________
I wish to reserve_____places at the Conference Banquet @$15
Amount ___________
I wish to pay by __ check (payable to Cleveland State University)
__ Visa no.______________________ Expires______
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signature __________________
--
Tom Bishop "I saw the danger, yet I walked
Dept of English Along the enchanted way,
Case Western Reserve University And I said let grief be a fallen leaf
Cleveland, OH 44106.(tgb2@po.cwru.edu) At the dawning of the day." P.K.
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