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September 1993
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 19:08:16 EDT
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From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: Call for Medieval Drama Course Syllabi
I'm in the middle of preparing an independant study course on French
Medieval Drama and I thought I might benefit from some of the ideas
that the rest of you have implimented in your courses--even if they
are not specifically French in orientation. Would anyone out there
be willing to share their syllabus over the net? I'm particularly
interested in secondary readings, but also anything else you've
assigned. I'll admit, I'm also curious to find out which texts get
taught the most (again, not just in French). So, if you've taught
a course (or are planning one), I'd appreciate hearing from you.
Thanks,
Jesse
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 01:16:27 -0400
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From: James Cummings
Subject: Re: Coldewey's Anthology
It has been written by the hand of John Coldewey that:
>
> To Naomi Liebler--
>
> Thanks for the wonderful invitation to push my own book! It's called EARLY
> ENGLISH DRAMA: AN ANTHOLOGY, and it was just published in March by
> Garland, simultaneously in hardback and paper ($18.95 for the paperback, I
>
> All the plays are presented in Middle English, with somewhat
> regularized spelling. Words are amply glossed in the margins and lines
> annotated at the bottom of the page. It should be as accessible to
> students as Cawley's Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays, but with a wider
> and (I think) more interesting selection of texts. Each play has a short
> introduction covering mss. info., versification, salient features of the
> text, and references to standard scholarly editions. There is a
> select bibliography at the end.
>
I'd just like to second Professor Coldewey's pushing of his
own book. I'm an undergrad at University of Toronto, and
found it easily accessible, with just the right amount of glossing,
and with helpful introductions. I've just got as far as finishing
ManKind in the book, having been distracted by other work.
I liked the inclusion of the various fragments. Perhaps this is
due to owning only Parks&Beatty ("The English Drama 900-1642
(pub. 1935)) and Medieval and Tudor Drama (Gassner, 1963), neither
of which have any of the fragments Prof. Coldewey includes. It
gave more of a sense of what was out there. I picked it up cheaply
at K'Zoo, so that was an added bonus.
Just thought I'd provide an opinion from the masses of us semi-literate
undergrads out here.
James Cummings
University of Toronto
jcumming@epas.utoronto.ca
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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 11:47:00 CDT
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From: Bob Clark
Subject: Re: Call for Medieval Drama Course Syllabi
Jesse,
A couple of years back at U of Louisville, I taught a practicum in
French medieval drama (as you know). The course combined reading,
discussion, and in-class staging of selected scenes by students, as well
as an end-of-semester performance of "La Farce du meunier" and the
"Moralite de l'Aveugle et du Boiteux." These two texts are available in
(relatively) inexpensive editions and are quite provocative, to say the
least. Indeed, two of the students found the violence in the "Meunier"
so offensive that they chose not to participate in the staging of that
play. It all worked out well, though, in that they ended up doing the
other play. Anyway, I know of your experience and interest in the
staging of plays, so I am sure that I am preaching to the converted.
But I would like to go ahead and put in a plug for having students act
out scenes from the play(s) that they are studying. It is an
effective way at getting at all kinds of questions, but the main
advantage is that it forces the students to get beyond the text and into
the realm of theater. In the class, for example, we read the
twelfth-century "Jeu d'Adam." The "Adam and Eve" section went over
quite well, but the following section, "Cain and Abel," seemed rather
flat to them, I think, until two of the students staged the murder
scene. It was absolutely riveting and, well, dramatic.
I'll send you a copy of the syllabus. I don't want to go public with it
because I put together a reader, the selections of which were freely
pilfered from a number of different printed sources. ;-)
Cheers,
Bob
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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 10:45:46 +1000
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From: Nerida Newbigin
Organization: Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Subject: Re: Call for Medieval Drama
Reply to: RE>Call for Medieval Drama Cou
Dear Jesse
I'd love to share my course on Italian medieval drama with you. I've got it
in Macintosh WordPerfect. Tell me what platform you want to open the file
on, and I'll send it to you.
Nerida Newbigin,
Italian, University of Sydney
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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 10:22:00 BST
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From: Niomi Liebler
Subject: Re: Coldewey's Anthology
My very particular thanks to James Cummings for his rave review of John
Coldewey's anthology. I'm out of the US on sabbatical, and in the transition
(or should I say "translation"?), I evidently missed John's original reply
identifying the anthology! So Mr. Cummings has done a great service--not only
do I now have his student's-eye view (more valuable than you might imagine)
but I've also got the title and publication data. It'll be a while before
I'll actually be able to use the information--at least a year--but I shall
inscribe it in the tables of my memory (and also on paper somewhere safer
than the tables of MY memory). Many thanks again.
Naomi C. Liebler
ncl1@stirling.ac.uk
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 12:28:52 -0500
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.CC.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: Moralities and modern approaches
Dear Rob Barrett:
There is a special edition of MEDIAEVALIA coming out next spring, which
will be given entirely to medieval drama, or rather to "early drama," up
to and occasionally, though not typically, including Shakespeare. Its
focus is primarily on theoretical approaches to the plays. There will
be an excellent essay by Rick Emmerson on morality plays and some
essays on plays like the Digby Mary Magdalene; a good introductory
essay on theorists of popular culture and medieval drama by Kathleen
Ashley and so forth. Martin Stevens and I are editing this volume. I
hope it will be useful to you. If you wish, I can send you a complete
table of contents; we have been promised a spring publication date.
Martin himself has an excellent essay; and more. The essay you
referred to by David Bevington was in Eckehard Simon's Cambridge
University Press book THE THEATRE OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE.
Best,
Milla Riggio
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 13:26:01 -0500
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.CC.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: Internet Survey
years of computer experience -- 2
e-mail use - 1 year
internet - 1 year
1. E-mail use: 6 (more than once a week)
Private e-mail: ditto
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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 14:16:55 MDT
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Comments: Garrett PJ Epp Department of English
From: Garrett Pj Epp
Subject: Re: Moralities and modern approaches
In-Reply-To: note of 93-09-07 10:33
From: Garrett PJ Epp Department of English
University of Alberta
Anyone doing work on moralities - or any other form of medieval drama - and in
gender/sexuality, should note the session sponsered by SSHMA on "Sexual Disse
Dissidence in Medieval Drama." Proposals for the session are still welcome
(nay, warmly encouraged!) - please contact either myself (FAX 403-492-8142) or
Graham Drake (FAX 716-245-5005/ no e-mail address, yet) ... soon.
The full proposal is as follows:
Recent scholarship in the field of Renaissance drama has
largely been devoted to questions of "sexual dissidence," developing new
theoretical constructs to understand such issues as cross-dressing,
cross-gendered behaviour, sexual puns in unexpected contexts, and homosexual
relationships between characters. Virtually none of this exciting work has so
far been extended back into the Middle Ages. Yet there was cross-dressing even
in liturgical drama, and homosexual relationships figure in the moral
interlude. Furthermore, the explicit didacticism of most medieval drama makes
it an especially interesting and fruitful site for the examination of contested
moral authority. This session will explore ways in which genders and
sexualities are performed on a variety of medieval stages.
Do consider submitting something - there's a lot of good material out there.
All the best,
Garrett
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 08:16:17 -0500
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.CC.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: Moralities and modern approaches
HELP! I have been asked to moderate a panel for Hartford Stage Co. on
stereotypes in Shakespeare, obviously in connection with a production of
The Merchant of Venice. I would like to collect all possible references,
primary and secondary, to Jewish, Moorish, etc., stereotypes not only in]
Shakespeare but also in the period leading up to his plays -- late
middle ages and sixteenth century. Can you provide suggestions? The
panel is in mid-October, and I am likely to have to order through
interlibrary loan or travel a reasonable distance to see any obscure
or difficult sources you may be able to name. So: if you have
suggestions, I'l love to get them.
Best,
Milla Riggio
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 13:00:43 -0700
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From: rick emmerson
Subject: Re: Jour du Jugement
In-Reply-To: <9309101219.AA19676@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
David Hult and I are working on a translation of the Old French play,
"Jour du Jugement" (Besancon Bibl. mun. MS 579; ed. Emile Roy, 1902) for the
Early European Drama Translation Series sponsored by the Medieval and
Renaissance Drama Society.
I have been unable to uncover any scholarly/critical discussion of the play
published since my own remarks in I
would appreciate learning of any references that I may have overlooked.
Also, does anyone know of any modern productions of the play?
All help will be warmly appreciated. Thanks.
Rick Emmerson
Western Washington University
rickem@henson.cc.wwu.edu
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 18:07:38 -0400
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From: Steve Wright
Subject: Re: Jour du Jugement
Rick: Glad to hear you are hard at work on the _Jugement_ project!
I checked the most recent review of scholarship I know, Alan Knight's
chapter on French drama in _The Theatre of Medieval Europe_ (1991).
He doesn't mention any recent work on your play, but he does mention
Moshe Lazar's edition of the Provencal _Le Jugement Dernier_ (Paris, 1971).
Knight mentions a performance of this 15th century play at the
University of Kansas in 1970.
There has been a healthy revival of interest in Last Judgment
plays from Germany--partly due to the recent discovery of new texts, and
partly due to the considerable body of known plays (at least a dozen).
But that's probably beside the point as far as you're concerned.
Keep up the good work,
Steve Wright
Catholic University
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 18:16:13 -0400
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From: Steve Wright
Subject: Re: Moralities and modern approaches
Milla: Here are a few titles from a list I compiled a few years back.
I hope this helps.
Manya Lifschitz-Golden, _Les Juifs dans la litterature francaise
du moyen age: mysteres, miracles, chroniques_ (1935)
Bernhard Blumenkranz, _ Les auteurs chreti{ns latins du moyen age sur
les juifs et le judaisme_ (1963).
Jacob Lopes Cardozo, _The contemporary Jew in the Elizabethan drama_ (1968)
J. Bloch and E. Rosenberg, _The Jew in English Drama: An annotated
bibliography_, 2nd ed. (1970)
Stephen Spector, "Anti-Semitism in the English Mystery Plays,"
_Comparative Drama_ 13 (1979), 3-16.
Rex Richard, "Chaucer and the Jews," MLQ 45 (1984), 107-22.
I suppose I should also mention my on work, _The Vengeance of Our Lord:
Medieval Dramatizations of the Destruction of Jerusalem_, especially
the section on anti-semitism in the French plays.
Steve Wright
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 20:13:00 EDT
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From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: Re: Syllabus--Monologues?
In-Reply-To: Message of Mon,
6 Sep 1993 10:45:46 +1000 from
Thanks to Bob, Alan and Nerida for syllabus tips. Nerida, can you
send your syllabus over the net in ascii format? that would be
easiest for me (and perhaps for you too?) Otherwise, I can
manage to read just about any format you send me (one way or another).
I appreciate Bob's comments on having students act out scenes--
unfortunately, I'm teaching this course as an independent study
for one student only. I couldn't help wondering if there are any
monologues out there?? I remember Alan Cartwright's performance of a
16th-c. Dutch monologue in Toronto...is there anything earlier than
that? (Again, I'm just curious...I don't think I'll put my one
student through that all by herself...)
Jesse
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 12:31:00 BST
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From: Niomi Liebler
Subject: Re: Moralities and modern approaches
Dear Milla--
On your inquiry regarding Jewish stereotypes in early drama, Jim Shapiro has
a brilliant book on the very topic, either forthcoming or recently out. Alas,
that's all I can recall about it, but if you put your inquiry up on the
Shaksper network, or get in touch with Jim at Columbia U., you will certainly
get all the information you need and then some, and at the very least you'll
get its title and publication data.
Check your private e-mail for a proper letter from me.
Cheers!
Naomi
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 12:56:00 EDT
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From: "Alan E. Knight"
Subject: Re: Syllabus--Monologues?
In-Reply-To: FREJDH AT UKCC.UKY.EDU -- Fri, 10 Sep 1993 20:13:00 EDT
Jesse,
There are many dramatic monologues to choose from. Jelle Koopmans
has recently edited all the _sermons joyeux_ (TLF 327 & 362). One
of the best of the monologues is _Le franc archier de Baignollet_
(TLF 129). See also Jean-Claude Aubailly's _Le monologue, le dialogue
et la sottie_ (Champion, 1976) and the much older work of Emile
Picot, "Le monologue dramatique" (_Romania_ 15, 16, & 17).
Good luck with your course. -- Alan
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 13:01:00 CDT
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From: Bob Clark
Subject: medieval monologues
Jesse,
The only monologue that comes to mind is Rutebeuf's "Dit de l'Herberie,"
which I haven't looked at in many a moon. Not much seems to be going on
in Rutebeuf studies these days. Wonder why.
Cheers,
Bob
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 20:12:59 EDT
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From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: Re: Monologues
In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 11 Sep 1993 12:56:00 EDT from
Great leads for early monologues. Thanks! I've given it some more thought
and wondered if every performance by a jongleur-type might not be
considered a kind of monologue. If so, that would include LOTS
of stuff, wouldn't it? Perhaps that makes the definition of
'monologue' so very broad as to divest it of any descriptive value.
Thoughts on this?
Jesse
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 16:32:22 -0700
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From: PETER GREENFIELD
Subject: RORD census of productions
All Performers!
This is to renew my call last spring for short reviews and notices
of medieval drama productions over the last year or so, to appear in
the revived "Census of Medieval Drama Productions" in the 1994 issue
of RORD (to appear Jan. '94). Alan Knight has sent me a lovely
description of the performances given at the Penn State conference in
the spring. Now let's hear from the rest of you on the network.
I hope soon to identify a British scholar who will gather notices
of productions in Britain, and ensure that those of us on this side of
the Atlantic get to hear about what's going on there. For now, you
will all (incl. Meg, Richard and other British friends) have to send
your contributions to me--either over the network or at English Dept.,
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98406, USA. And please pass
the word to non-e-mail friends. Thanks,
Peter Greenfield
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 12:27:21 +0100
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From: Mrs M Twycross
Subject: Re: Monologues
In-Reply-To: from "Jesse Hurlbut" at Sep 11, 93 08:12:59 pm
Dear Jesse,
Descriptive value: a monologue is a speech act by one person when
there's no-one else about? So by definition no dramatic speech is a monologue,
since, like God, the audience is always there. Unless they stayed away? Why
not define it for yourself, then you can set your own limits?
Yours, Meg Twycross
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 19:55:03 -0400
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From: kenneth mccoy
Subject: Electronic resources for Performance Studies/Theatre
Esteemed Colleagues --
I am currently charged with compiling a list of electronic resources for
the research committees of both the Theatre and Performance Studies
divisions of the Speech Communcation Association (to be presented this
November in Miami at the Nat'l Annual Convention).
So far, I have found and accessed the following resources:
Mailserver discussion lists
- Canadian Theatre Research (candrama@unb.ca)
- Theatre (theatre@grearn.csi.forth.gr)
- Perform-l (perform-l@acfcluster.nyu.edu)
- Perform: Medieval Performance (perform@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu)
- Records of Early English Drama (Reed-l@epas.utoronto.ca)
- Folklore (folklore@tamvm1.bitnet)
- Visual and Verbal Semiotics, formerly Telesi-l
(semios-l@ulkyvm.louisville.edu)
Online: interactive organizations
- Comserve--for communications studies (comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu)
Electronic journals
- Postmodern Culture (pmc-list@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu)
- RD: Graduate Research in the Arts (rd@writer.yorku.ca)
Newsgroups:
- (free): rec.arts.theatre, alt.stagecraft, rec.arts.cinema,
rec.arts.poems, rec.arts.prose, rec.arts.tv, rec.music.folk,
sci.anthropology, sci.lang, soc.college.teaching-asst, soc.culture.*,
soc.feminism, alt.artcom, alt.culture.theory, alt.etext,
alt.folklore.urban, alt.history.living, alt.native, alt.postmodern,
alt.showbiz.gossip, alt.usage.english, bit.listserv.cinema-l,
bit.listserv.commed, bit.listserv.literary.
- (for a price$): ClariNet (clari.news.arts)
If anyone out there knows of any others, it would be very helpful if
you could take the time to respond either by posting here or directly
to me through e-mail. Please remember to include as much information as
possible, especially the address (Internet or Bitnet) and publishing
organization/University (even moderators if you know them).
Many thanks,
Ken McCoy
PhD candidate (ABD)
Bowling Green State University
kmccoy@andy.bgsu.edu
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 08:02:49 EDT
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From: "Hardy M. Cook"
Subject: Re: Electronic resources for Performance Studies/Theatre
Dear Ken,
As the Editor of SHAKSPER, let me recommend it for you list.
For information, contact the list address -- SHAKSPER@UTORONTO.BITNET --
or the editor -- HMCook@boe00.minc.umd.edu.
--Hardy
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 14:25:46 LCL
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From: chast susan l
Please put me on your mailing list.
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 18:15:01 +0100
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From: Mrs M Twycross
Subject: Re: E-mail address
In-Reply-To: from "Nerida Newbigin" at Sep 6, 93 10:45:46 am
Dear Nerida,
What is your e-mail address (so any correspondence
isn't necessarily broadcast, as now, to the medieval theatre world? Mine
is ena006@lancaster.ac.uk (on Internet).
Yours, Meg Twycross
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 11:59:00 EDT
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From: Steve Wright
Subject: Benediktbeuern Christmas Play
I just finished reading Hansju"rgen Linke's article "Der
Schluss des mittelalteinischen Weihnachtsspiels aue Benediktbeuern,"
_Zeitschrift fu"r deutsche Philologie_, 94 (1975), 1-22, in which
he develops an ingenious textual and codicological argument for
reading the so-called "Ludus de Rege Egypti" (CB 228) as part of
the conclusion of the famous Christmas play (CB 227), rather than
as an independent piece. My question is this: how widely
accepted is Linke's view? If you were editing the Christmas play
today (or teaching it), would you emend the conclusion so as to
include the text of CB 228 before the Death of Herod (gnawed
by worms!) as Linke suggests? Or would you still end the play
with the problematic sequence of events as found in the MS
(Slaughter of the Innocents, Death of Herod, reign of Archelaus,
departure of the Holy Family into Egypt)?
Has there been any discussion of Linke's hypothesis since its
publication 18 years ago? The only tmes I recall seeing it mentioned
are in other essays by Linke himself (in the revised "Verfasserlexikon"
and in his chapter in the new collection of reserach reports edited
by Eckehard Simon). Understandably enough, in these writings the
author continues to subscribe to his own opinion. But has anyone else
written on this important subject--either to support or refute--since
the original 1975 essay?
--Steve Wright
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 09:56:23 +0100
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From: Mrs M Twycross
Subject: Re: RORD census of productions
In-Reply-To: from "PETER GREENFIELD" at Sep 13, 93 04:32:22 pm
Peter, what's your personal E-mail address? I have current reviews of
productions in Medieval English Theatre, so it's difficult to duplicate
them: and Peter Happe is going for a year's teaching to France with Andre
Lascombes, which takes one active reviewer out of the circuit. We
(Joculatores Lancastrienses) did Wit and Science this year, which was
good, though I say so myself (video follows), and in 1992 there was the
five-play York Festival Pageant Waggons. I can send you practical details of
those if you want. Yours, Meg
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 10:20:02 +0100
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From: Mrs M Twycross
Subject: Re: Internet Survey
In-Reply-To: from "Clyde W Brockett" at Aug 30, 93 04:23:54 pm
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> > William D. Milheim
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> > Internet that are most used by the academic community. You have been chosen
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> > a member of a selected academic list service (LISTSERV) to participate.
> > Results of this survey will form the basis of a journal article to be
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> > INTERNET INSIGHTS: A Survey
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> > We will begin by asking a few questions about yourself:
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> > How many years of computer experience do you have? __7__
> > How long have you used e-mail of any type? __1__
> > How long have you been an Internet user? __1__
> >
> > Three primary functions of the Internet have been identified. They are
> > electronic mail, Telnet or remote log-in, and FTP or file transfer. An
> > estimated 15 million users take advantage of these functions daily.
> > This survey explores the use of each of these services.
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> > 1. E-Mail Use: How often do you make these connections?
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> > (Insert the appropriate number beside items below:)
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> > 1=Not at all 4=About 2-3 times a month
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> > Games/Simulations: __1__
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> > 2=A few times 5=Once a week
> > 3=About once a month 6=More than once a week
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> > CARL __1__
> > CITADEL __1__
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> > Dartmouth Dante __1__
> > Dialog __1__
> > Dow-Jones News Retrieval __1__
> > Dranet __1__
> > EDIN __1__
> > EPA __1__
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> > Perform - Medieval Performing Arts 6
OE Thesaurus (depends on student need) 3
> > 3. FTP Use: How often do you download files from FTP archive sites?
> >
> > (Insert appropriate number beside each item)
> >
> > 1=Not at all 4=About 2-3 times a month
> > 2=A few times 5=Once a week
> > 3=About once a month 6=More than once a week
> >
> > Computers and Academic Freedom __1__
> > EASI __1__
> > History __1__
> > LIBSOFT __1__
> > Lyric and Discography __1__
> > NASA __1__
> > Online Libraries Directory __1__
> > Science Education __1__
> > SIMTEL20 __1__
> > SUMEX-AIM __1__
> > U.S. Supreme Court Decisions __1__
> > Washington Uni. Public Domain Archives __1__
> >
> > Other (Please Specify):
> > TML-L
> >
> > 4. Several navigational aids have been developed for the Internet.
> > How often do you use these network guides?
> >
> > (Insert appropriate number beside items below.)
> >
> > 1=Not at all 4=About 2-3 times a month
> > 2=A few times 5=Once a week
> > 3=About once a month 6=More than once a week
> >
> > Archie __1__
> > Campus-wide Information Systems __1__
> > Gopher __1__
> > WAIS (Wide-area information servers) __1__
> > WWW (WorldWideWeb) __1__
> > Veronica __1__
> > HYTELNET __1__
> > Other (Please specify):
> >
> >
> > Personal experiences can be the most helpful to other users. Please comment
o
> > the following:
> >
> > 5. The importance of the Internet to your work?
> >
> reading, correspondence, data acquisition (all these)
administration within university, getting assistance
on multimedia project from Oxford CTI Centre.
> >
> >
> > 6. Advantages the Internet offers over other resources?
> >
> speed and geographical dissemination.
> >
> > 7. Barriers to using the Internet?
> >
> none yet
> >
> > 8. Your most memorable use of the Internet?
> > Do you mean memorable or significant? Memorable, hearing of the
death of Aubailly, which was a shock. Significant? Getting help
from the Oxford CTI Centre.
> >
> >
> > 9 These questions will help us interpret the results of this study:
> >
> > Title: Mrs. M.A. Twycross
> > Affiliation: Lancaster University
> > Discipline: English Medieval Studies
> > Research Interest(s): Medieval theatre; iconography
> >
> > Please return the completed survey to: WMILHEIM@PSUGV.EDU
> > by September 3, 1993. Sorry, wasn't here.
> >
> > If you would like a summary of the survey results, please place your
> > e-mail address here: m.twycross@lancaster.ac.uk
> >
> >
> > :) Thank you for taking the time to participate :)
> >
>
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 10:35:36 EST
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: sheila lindenbaum
Subject: Re: Internet Survey
All the blanks were already filled in on the questionnaire I received, and I
didn't understand how to make my equipment fill in those blanks anyway. S.
Lindenbaum, English Dept.
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 12:53:55 -0500
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: RIGGIO@ADS.CC.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: Benediktbeuern Christmas Play
Dear Steve Wright:
I have no answers to your questions about the Benediktbeueren Christmas
Play, but I would suggest you ask Clifford Flanigan. If Cliff doesn't
know, noone will, I suspect.
Best,
Milla Riggio
P.S. What do you want to say in this year's MRDS newsletter about
the translation series? Can you send me a report?
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 13:46:22 EST
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Clifford Flanigan
Subject: Re: Benediktbeuern Christmas Play
To Steve, Milla, and others,
Thanks for thge complement, Milla, but I don't know anything more than
Steve reported. I am myself skeptical of Linke's claims, but wouldn't want
to go further than that, unless we really want to get into a discussion of
this issue, in which case I will have to go and reread the piece. Linke is
the walking encyclopaedia on medieval German drama, but this speculation
seems just a bit tooo "Germanic" for my taste.
Cliff Flanigan
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 16:14:32 EST
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: sheila lindenbaum
Subject: Re: Benediktbeuern Christmas Play
del
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 22:13:16 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: Re: Internet Survey
In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
29 Sep 1993 10:35:36 EST from
The original Internet Survey sent out to this list was from an
outside party. I believe that the announced deadline to send
them in was Sept. 3. (Perhaps there was an extension?) I should
point out that REPLYing to the survey sends a copy to PERFORM
and NOT to the original researcher. For that, one needs to
FORWARD the survey to the address indicated in the original
mailing.
Sheila, I have a copy of the blank form if you're still interested.
I'm sure one of the many PERFORMers at IU could help you fill it
out.
Jesse Hurlbut
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 13:11:54 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: DScriptorium Announcement
(One of the perks for PERFORMers--there are so many!--is that the
following announcement will appear here before anywhere else!
--JDH)
I would like to announce the creation of DScriptorium: an ftp
site devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital
images of Medieval manuscripts (D is for digital).
You may log in with the following command:
ftp slow.inslab.uky.edu
USER name: anonymous
PASSWORD: (your e-mail address)
The collection begins with rare images of the miniatures from
Besancon, Bibliotheque Municipale, ms. [M] 579, 'Le Mystere dou
Jour dou Jugement' (Color scans from enlarged photographs).
The images are in subdirectory /DScriptorium/Jugement (note
CAPITAL DS and J). See also the introductory document in
subdirectory /DScriptorium.
All .doc files are in ASCII format.
All image files must be shipped in binary mode (type 'bin' at the
ftp prompt to set binary mode). The 'Jour dou Jugement' images
are in JPEG format. There are currently 30 of the 89 miniatures
in the directory. More will be added as they are prepared.
All materials contained in DScriptorium may be freely distributed
for the personal use of students, scholars and the public. Any
commercial use or publication of them is strictly prohibited.
Please direct questions or comments to Jesse Hurlbut
(hurlbut@mik.uky.edu).
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 17:03:00 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Steve Wright
Subject: DScriptorium
Jesse: Many thanks for launching what promises to be a valuable
resource for us all! Does Rick Emmerson subscribe to this list?
He is working on the text of the play and would surely be interested
to know about this.
I was recently awarded a small grant to purchase about 20 microfilms
of play manuscripts from French and German libraries. Would these
be of any use to you, or are only high-resolution color reproductions
scannable for the purposes of the DScriptorium project?
Thanks again. I can't wait to try it out.
--Steve Wright
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 16:37:06 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: Matters of Business
Here are a few matters of PERFORM-related business:
1) The question was raised at the MRDS meeting at Kalamazoo whether
PERFORM could be used as a means for distributing among ourselves
more than just mail: e.g., papers not otherwise destined for
publication, abstracts, bibliographies, course syllabi, etc.
The answer is most definitely yes. If anyone would like to share
materials of any sort, please contact me directly. In particular,
I would like to invite all participants in the MRDS conference
sessions (at MLA or Kalamazoo) to submit copies of their papers.
These materials can be maintained on the PERFORM FILESERVER. To
date, the FILESERVER includes monthly logs of all correspondence
on PERFORM (the first log includes several months worth) and a
short conference paper on feasts and funhouses in XVth-Cent.
Burgundy (significant only as a demonstration of the FILESERVER's
capacities--sans doute!). Send a one-line command to LISTSERV@IUBVM
that reads:
GET PERFORM FILELIST
for a list of these items.
2) If your e-mail address changes or is discontinued, please unsubscribe
from PERFORM before termination of your old address. (Don't
forget to re-subscribe with your NEW address!) Also, when e-mail
accumulates in your reader, there is sometimes no room to receive
additional mail. In all of these cases, undeliverable mail bounces
back to the owner. In order to avoid overload, I have adopted the
policy of resetting list options to NOMAIL for any account that has
bounced mail back five consecutive times. If you (or someone you know)
appears to have lost contact with PERFORM, you may check your list
options and reset to MAIL by sending the respective commands to
LISTSERV@IUBVM:
Q PERFORM <==(short for Query PERFORM) You will receive a
list of your distribution options.
SET PERFORM MAIL <==Turns the mail delivery back on.
SET PERFORM NOMAIL <==Turns mail delivery off. This is
useful if you know you will not be
checking your mail for a while (e.g.,
on vacation, leave, etc.).
3) Avoid possible embarrassment by observing two LISTSERV conventions:
- Send instructions (SUB, UNSUB, SET MAIL, SET NOMAIL, etc) to
LISTSERV@IUBVM. Send actual discussion and mail to
PERFORM@IUBVM. (The Internet equivalents of these are
LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU and PERFORM@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU.)
- When you hit REPLY from a PERFORM letter, your response is sent
to the ENTIRE LIST and NOT only to the person who originally posted
the letter.
4) Help regarding LISTSERV commands and conventions is also available
by sending the command INFO to any LISTSERV location.
Jesse Hurlbut
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 17:41:42 EDT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: Re: DScriptorium
In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 30 Sep 1993 17:03:00 EDT from
On Thu, 30 Sep 1993 17:03:00 EDT Steve Wright said:
>Does Rick Emmerson subscribe to this list?
Rick is among us and has already expressed his interest in
having this material made available in this way (good PR for his
project, eh?)
>I was recently awarded a small grant to purchase about 20 microfilms
>of play manuscripts from French and German libraries. Would these
>be of any use to you, or are only high-resolution color reproductions
>scannable for the purposes of the DScriptorium project?
I would be happy to include anything you can submit. Hi-res color
is not a prerequisite. (You'll soon see that my own scans measure
up to varying standards!)
On the other hand, I do think it is important to get approval
from the libraries holding the manuscript rights before broadcasting
their materials in this manner. (I'll admit I was nervous about
asking the folks in Besancon if they minded having their ms. passed
around an electronic network. Their response was not only affirmative,
but quite enthusiastic!)
Jesse Hurlbut