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May 1993
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 08:27:33 -0400
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From: REED Project
Subject: Re: Politics and Medieval English Drama (fwd)
Some little while ago, I sent out a query from PERFORM to the REED-L,
and have now gotten this response.... Enjoy!
Abigail
Forwarded message:
> From J.J.Mcgavin@southampton.ac.uk Thu May 6 10:41:11 1993
> Via: uk.ac.southampton; Thu, 6 May 1993 15:41:20 +0100
> From: "J.J.Mcgavin"
> Message-Id: <6042.9305061416@mail.soton.ac.uk>
> Date: Thu, 6 May 93 15:16:24 BST
> To: reed
> Subject: Re: Politics and Medieval English Drama (fwd)
> In-Reply-To: ; from "REED Project" at Apr 14, 93 8:59 am
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
>
> I would recommend contact with Dr Greg Walker, University of Leicester, i.e,
> gmw4@uk.ac.leicester, and a glance at his recent book from Cambridge U.P.
+ Plays
> of Persuasion
>
> Yours
> John J McGavin
>
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 18:55:00 EST
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From: RIGGIO@TRINCC2.BITNET
Subject: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE THROUGH PERFORMANCE
To all subscribers of PERFORM:
I have the go-ahead to prepare a full prospectus for a volume on teaching Shakes
peare through performance. Now I need to assemble a good mailing list of tho
se
who might be interested in receiving a questionnaire for this book. I need
several hundred names of people highly likely to respond to a questionnaire
to be prepared this summer. Can you help me? Please send me YOUR OWN hard
mail address if you are interested, or the hard mail addresses of anyone you
think might be interested (or academic affiliations, so that I can procure
addresses myself). Many thanks in advance. A line or two explaining the
nature of your interest would be good, too. Some of you responded earlier,
but to be certain I have all those addresses, I'd like to ask you to
respond again, within the next few weeks if you can.
Many, many thanks.
Best wishes,
Milla Riggio
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 18:42:00 EST
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: Teasers
Dear Jesse:
How did the Sunday morning session go at Kalamazoo? o I'd like a report,
for my own sake (just to know, since Sunday sessions are notoriously
under-attended) and for the MRDS newsletter. Can you give me a report?
I also haven't heard about the business meeting. Mimi will send me
minutes, but I'd like any information. And, again, I'm soliciting
names and addresses for the MLA book on the option of teaching
Shakespeare through performance.
Thanks,
Milla
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 12:33:45 +1000
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: Nerida Newbigin
Organization: Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Subject: Re: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE THR
Reply to: RE>TEACHING SHAKESPEARE THROUG
My colleague Dr Tim Fitzpatrick (Department of Italian, A26, University of
Sydney, N.S.W., Australia) should be on your list. His e-mail address is
Tim.Fitzpatrick@Italian.su.edu.au
Best wishes,
Nerida
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 15:31:32 -0500
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: Rick Jones
Subject: Re: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE THROUGH PERFORMANCE
Milla:
Re your call for
>several hundred names of people highly likely to respond to a questionnaire
>to be prepared this summer.
I'd be interested in participating... summer address Rick Jones, 301
2nd Ave. No., Mount Vernon, IA 52314.
You might also want to contact my colleague Stephen Lacey, Dept. of
English, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA 52314.
Cheers...
Rick Jones
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 16:41:34 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Comments: Resent-From: Jesse Hurlbut
Comments: Originally-From: Catherine Perry
From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: please help Catherine Perry
**** URGENT **** URGENT **** URGENT **** URGENT ****
-- TO ANYONE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN PRODUCING --
A FRENCH PASSION PLAY IN ENGLISH NEXT YEAR!
Arnoul Greban's "Vray Mistere de la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ,"
after many years of neglect, has found a team in France that will be producing
an abridged (4 hours long) version from June 24 on, in Toulouse. The team is
impressive: over 500 actors, technicians, etc. Among the actors: Francoise
Fabian, Genevieve Page, Georges Descrieres, Michel Lonsdale. The techni-
cians are the same who worked on shows by Jean-Michel Jarre, known as a New-
Age composer (son of Maurice Jarre--"Doctor Jhivago," etc.) and creator of
special effects. The "Mistere" was performed every year in front of Notre Dame
de Paris, from 1910 until 1965, when archeological digs temporarily put an end
to the representations. But from next year on, this long tradition will thrive
once again in Paris, and not like this year, in Toulouse.
Now, here is the URGENT part of this message: Jean Poncet, the stage
director, and another member of the team, will be coming to the U.S. on May 24,
to stay until approximately May 28. They wish to supervise the recording of
the play in English so as to provide a taped version to non-French speaking
tourists who will attend the performance this summer. (There already exist
translations in Spanish and Catalan, as well as in German.) During their brief
stay in the New York area at the end of May, these two members of the produc-
tion team will want to meet anyone who might be interested in staging and pro-
ducing the play in the U.S. next year. They are hoping to make plans as early
as possible so that all details may be worked out--for instance, they want the.
play to be translated into Old English, and in verse, whereas the translation
that has just been made is in modern English and in prose.
Please respond as fast as you possibly can, if you are interested, since
time is running short. Send your messages to the following E-Mail address:
CPERRY@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU
With many thanks to all of you who have taken the time to read this message
Looking forward to hearing from you, Catherine Perry
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 16:57:02 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: Re: Teasers
In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
11 May 1993 18:42:00 EST from
Milla and others,
As organizer of the Sunday MRDS session at Kalamazoo, I think I can
safely report that it was an outstanding success. :) There were around
40 in attendance (at the begining of the session--the number dwindled
as people went to catch their planes). In all, it was a refreshing
survey of some new work being done on early drama in France, Spain,
Germany and Flanders. Positive reactions from the audience (which
included several provocative questions and comments) lead me to
conclude that I am not alone in my appraisal of the session's success.
Perhaps someone else (with less vested interest) would like to make
additional comments?
Jesse Hurlbut
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 08:03:22 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: Shirley Carnahan
Subject: Re: Teasers
Milla and Jesse et al
I'd say Jesse's comments were accurate. I was racing between the
Medieval Drama and the Continental Drama sessions, and when I arrived
at the Continental (half-way through), there were still a fair number
or very interested people present (armed, as Jesse said, with good
questions and comments). If it hadn't been Sunday, I believe the
discussion would have spilled out to the coffee/wine bar. As it was,
I'm still convinced there were some thoughtful comments on the way
back to the Valleys and on the bus to the airport. This humble
listener certainly enjoyed what she heard.
Shirley Carnahan
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 11:01:04 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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Comments: Resent-From: Jesse Hurlbut
Comments: Originally-From: Catherine Perry
From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: Greban's Passion
Some hungry computers seem to have eaten this message. Please excuse
the repeat. And remember, all of our correspondence is logged in the
fileserver and can be retrieved at any time. (Send to listserv@iubvm
the command 'list perform' for a description of logged items and their
filenames. Then, send to listserv@iubvm the command 'GET filename'
replacing 'filename' with the name of the file you wish to receive.)
Jesse Hurlbut
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**** URGENT **** URGENT **** URGENT **** URGENT ****
-- TO ANYONE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN PRODUCING --
A FRENCH PASSION PLAY IN ENGLISH NEXT YEAR!
Arnoul Greban's "Vray Mistere de la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ,"
after many years of neglect, has found a team in France that will be producing
an abridged (4 hours long) version from June 24 on, in Toulouse. The team is
impressive: over 500 actors, technicians, etc. Among the actors: Francoise
Fabian, Genevieve Page, Georges Descrieres, Michel Lonsdale. The techni-
cians are the same who worked on shows by Jean-Michel Jarre, known as a New-
Age composer (son of Maurice Jarre--"Doctor Jhivago," etc.) and creator of
special effects. The "Mistere" was performed every year in front of Notre Dame
de Paris, from 1910 until 1965, when archeological digs temporarily put an end
to the representations. But from next year on, this long tradition will thrive
once again in Paris, and not like this year, in Toulouse.
Now, here is the URGENT part of this message: Jean Poncet, the stage
director, and another member of the team, will be coming to the U.S. on May 24,
to stay until approximately May 28. They wish to supervise the recording of
the play in English so as to provide a taped version to non-French speaking
tourists who will attend the performance this summer. (There already exist
translations in Spanish and Catalan, as well as in German.) During their brief
stay in the New York area at the end of May, these two members of the produc-
tion team will want to meet anyone who might be interested in staging and pro-
ducing the play in the U.S. next year. They are hoping to make plans as early
as possible so that all details may be worked out--for instance, they want the.
play to be translated into Old English, and in verse, whereas the translation
that has just been made is in modern English and in prose.
Please respond as fast as you possibly can, if you are interested, since
time is running short. Send your messages to the following E-Mail address:
CPERRY@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU
With many thanks to all of you who have taken the time to read this message
Looking forward to hearing from you, Catherine Perry
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 07:49:00 EST
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE THR
Dear Nerida:
Thanks for the name of Tim Fitzpatrick. It's interesting that he is in
a Department of Italian. Can you tell me what he does, so that I can be
sure there are questions on the questionnaire that will be applicable to
his work? I'll add him to the list now, but a sentence or two would be
helpful.
And, by the way, how are you? I've almost finished my Abraham essay, and
you have rated a footnote for recommending the book by Erich Wellisch. What
are you working on? Send me your private e-mail address, please, so that we
can catch up on other matters? When will you be coming this way again?
Best wishes,
Milla
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 15:23:30 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Catherine Perry
Subject: Re: Greban's Passion
In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
13 May 1993 11:01:04 EDT from
This is just a small clarification of yesterday's message: what Jean Poncet and
Xavier Mignot wish to do when they come to the New York area at the end of May
is to meet with or talk to anyone who may be interested in staging and produc-
ing Greban's "Mistere de Passion" next year, in 1994, in the U.S. An English
translation already exists for the tape recording being made this year. Should
the Passion be staged in the U.S., however, it will require an Old English
translation in verse.
As before, please send comments, ideas, questions, suggestions, to:
Many thanks.
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 21:34:00 EST
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: Teasers
Dear Jesse, Shirley, and others:
I'm delighted to hear about the Sunday morning Continental drama session!
A real confirmation of interest in non-English drama. Our translation series
should feed this interest, and we must find ways to further it even more
through MRDS. Please encourage European scholars to join this group, and
let's use our common contacts through S.I.T.M. to help develop this interest.
Congratulations Jesse! Can we have a full report for the MRDS newsletter, and
do you have papers to send Peter Greenfield for possible publication in
RORD?
--Milla
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Date: Sat, 15 May 1993 08:10:49 EDT
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From: Steve Urkowitz
Subject: Re: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE THROUGH PERFORMANCE
In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 11 May 1993 18:55:00 EST from
Dear Milla,
Sign me up for your performing/teaching survey. I've been trying-an
d-erroring at this process for a long time. Never managed to get anything reli
able, but that reflects on my personal flakiness rather than any of the methods
I've been working with.
Steven Urkowitzz
Department of English
City College of New York
137th Street & Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 20:50:00 EDT
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From: Steve Wright
Subject: New book on Hildegard von Bingen?
Two years ago at Kalamazoo I heard a paper by Pamela Sheingorn (who may
well be reading this message) on Hildegard's _Ordo Virtutum_ and the
rite for the consecration of virgins. As I recall, the essay was
to be published in a collection of essays on Hildegard to be edited
by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson. Can Pamela or anyone else on the list
give me an update on the status of this project? I would like to
cite this book in a bibliography I'm working on, I'll need some more
specifics to do so. Thanks in advance to any and all who can help.
--Steve Wright
Catholic University
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 23:10:00 EST
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: New book on Hildegard von Bingen?
Dear Steve:
It's late and I'm working on another project; just took a moment out to
check my mail, so I don't have time to follow up on the suggestion I am
about to make. I cited that EDAM publication on Hildegard in a recent
MRDS newsletter, either last fall or last spring (1992). Check the letter.
I am sure Pam can tell you whether it's actually out or not, but the citation
would give you some specific information. I'll look it up tomorrow when I
get a minute.
Best,
Milla Riggio
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Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 10:13:30 EDT
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From: Pamela Sheingorn
Subject: Re: New book on Hildegard von Bingen?
In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 16 May 1993 20:50:00 EDT from
Dear Steve,
The book you are asking about appeared last summer.
--The ORDO VIRTUTUM of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies. Ed.
Audrey Ekdahl Davidson. (Early Drama, Art, And Music Monograph Series, 18).
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Contents: "Music and Performance: Hildegard of Bingen's ORDO VIRTUTUM"
By Audrey Ekdahl Davidson
"The ORDO VIRTUTUM: Ancestor of the English Moralities?" by Robert Potter
"The Virtues of Hildegard's ORDO VIRTUTUM; or, It WAS a Woman's World"
by Pamela Sheingorn
"The Monastic Context of Hildegard's ORDO VIRTUTUM" by Julia Bolton
Holloway
"EGO HUMILITATIS, REGINA VIRTUTUM: Poetic Language and Literary Structure
in Hildegard of Bingen's Vision of the Virtues" by Gunilla Iversen
"The ORDO VIRTUTUM: A Note on Production" by Clifford Davidson.
Let me know if you need forther info. Cheers, Pamela Sheingorn
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Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 19:21:00 CDT
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From: Robert Clark
Subject: new list -- MEDGAY-L
Please excuse the posting of this message to multiple lists.
Annoucing the creation of a new list, MEDGAY-L, devoted to the
discussion of gay-lesbian issues in Medieval Studies. This list is
affiliated with the Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle
Ages.
To subscribe, send the standard, one-line subscription message
(SUB MEDGAY-L "your name") with no subject heading to:
listserv@ksuvm.bitnet
or, for internet users:
listserv@ksuvm.ksu.edu
Please inform others of the existence of this list, and please join and
participate!
Sincerely,
Robert Clark (the listowner)
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 20:31:00 -0400
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From: W Schipper
Subject: InterScripta: an On-line forum for medievalists
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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 10:36:00 EST
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: SQUIDNESS PREVAILS OVER ALL
Subject: Re: InterScripta: an On-line forum for medievalists
dear PERFROM,
I am leaving campus for the summer and would like to cancel my
mailings from you. THANKYOU!
it has been interesting,
Rasa L. Hollender
Hr973093
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