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January 1994
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 14:54:53 GMT
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From: "Graham A. Runnalls"
Subject: Book in Performance
I shall not be able to attend the upcoming conference in
Santa Barbara on *Book in Performance* unfortunately, much
as I would like to, since some aspects of the topic have
preoccupied me in recent years. As an indirect contribution
to the conference, I might refer interested parties to a
recent arrticle of mine (note the conscious avoidance of
the modesty topos!): "Towards a typology of medieval
French play manuscripts" in P.E.Bennett and G.A.Runnalls
(eds.) *The Editor and the Text*, Edinburgh University
Press, 1990, pp. 96-113. The article surveys all the
surviving mss containing French mystery plays, and proposes
a classification based on the function of the ms. in
relation to the play performance it implies.
g.a.runnalls@ed.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 13:30:02 -0500
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From: Steve Wright
Subject: Re: Book in Performance
Thanks to Graham Runnalls for the reference to his recent article on
a proposed typology of French play manuscripts. Graham, you might be
interested to know that in my course on Medieval Drama last fall I
showed the graduate students the handout you had circulated several years
ago when you gave a paper on this subject at kalamazoo. The class was
very interested in your work, and I was chagrined that I could not direct
them to your published work on the topic. Now I shall be able to do so.
Again, many thanks for the update. No modesty topos required!
--Steve Wright
Catholic University
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 11:50:21 CST
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From: Jody Enders
Subject: Re: Book in Performance
In Message Fri, 7 Jan 94 13:48:23 CST,
"Jody Enders" writes:
>I thought it was time I said something about this conference--although I
>expect that report will be more interesting after it's over, but I'd be
>happy to hear Perform members on the subject, and somehow integrate their
>remarks into our discussion.
> Personally, I'm more interested in the second case Jesse invokes: the
>book as performance, or, in the case of my own paper on violence and
>mnemotechnics, book images as virtual performances of violence. I'm going
>to be looking at a particularly violent pedagogical image from Thomas
>Murner and how it is enacted dramatically in schoolroom beatings and
>then dramatizations of those beatings. But then... the whole point of this
>conference is to expand the field of inquiry, and to represent as many
>types of relations/interrelations as possible. I'd love to hear more
>thoughts from those on the list, and I'll be happy to summarize the
>conference when it's over.
> Jody Enders
Jody Enders
Dept. of French and Italian, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 893-3111/4696 or (805) 569-3943
FAX: (805) 893-8826; E MAIL: jenders@humanitas.ucsb.edu
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 08:47:31 -0500
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From: "A. Young"
Subject: Date of SITM conference: Correction to EDAM and MRDS
It has come to our attention that the date of the next SITM conference, to
be held here in Toronto, appeared incorrectly in both the last issue of
the EDAM Review and the last MRDS Newsletter!!
The next triennial conference of the Soci<'>et<'>e Internationale pour
L'<'>etude du Th<'>e<^>atre M<'>edi<'>evale (SITM) will be held at the
University of Toronto August 2-9 1995. You may contact the organising
committee by post care of the REED office, 150 Charles Street W, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, M5S 1K9 or by electronic mail at SITMT@epas.utoronto.ca.
Thank you.
Abigail Ann Young
REED
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 13:09:16 +0000
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From: Avril Henry
Subject: Castle of Perseverance: lacunae
I hope the list, to which I am new, will forgive a cross-posted enquiry--
I sent it to Medtextl too. I have summoned up the PERFORM log for the last
year, and searched the whole caboodle to see if the matter is old hat--
but if it was discussed before Dec. 1992, shout at me . . .
In his edition of _The Castle_, Eccles states that the two lacunae are
due to loss of two leaves (one bifolium) in the second quire which,
like the first, is of 16 leaves. He cites, but without a reference,
Ker's observation that it is more likely that the 2nd quire originally
had 18 leaves, than that the MS's exemplar was already defective (as one
might suppose, given the two quires of 16 leaves in the Folger MS).
Questions:
1. Where did Ker say this? We don't have the FOlger Catalogue, if that is
where it was.
2. What is the evidence for the lacunae beign caused by the loss of only
one bifolium? I don't find such evidence in the surviving text.
3. Is there any reason why this MS (which is not of uniform stock, and is
obviously not posh) should not have had a 2nd quire of 29 leaves? In
vellum that is unmanagable, but not in paper . . .
4. Has anyone else queried this?
I am on STudy Leave this term, but come to the office every 3 days, so
any comments will be eventually, if belatedly, acknowledged.
--
Sceptically,
Avril (Henry)
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 15:36:35 +0000
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From: Mrs M Twycross
Subject: Re: Hosay
In-Reply-To: from "RIGGIO@ADS.CC.TRINCOLL.EDU" at Dec 23,
93 08:53:33 am
Dear Milla,
I shall have to consult with my mother, who will remember more: I
wasn't very old at the time. I just have a memory of these amazing paper mosques
being floated out to sea (were they set on fire, or is this a cross-reference
to Beowulf?), and that this was the Moslem processional festival par excellence,
just as Corpus Christi was the Christian one. (Is this an example of childhood
conditioning? I never thought of it as such!) But I'll be back to you when
I've asked my mother and my aunt.
Meg
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:21:11 -0500
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.CC.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: Hosay
Dear Meg:
I'm working quite seriously on this festival and since you are LITERALLY
the only person besides the Smithsonian team with which I've been working
ever even to hear of Hosay, of my acquaintance, I truly would love to
know what kinds of memories and reminiscences your mother and aunt have
of the event. No fires now. In fact, in Port au Spain they cannot
float the tomb (not a mosque, though the mistake is a very easy one to
make) out to sea for environmental reasons. They break it up and pack
it in crates, which I believe they DO float out to sea though I was
ion the country, not the city, on the crucial day. In the country
they do float the thing out to sea (though in fact most of it washes
back up on shore the next day where I presume it's broken to pieces
and thrown away. So much for the final return to the water -- which
was a Hindu influence anyway!
I'd love to hear more!
Best,
Milla
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 23:25:27 -0500
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From: BARRETTA@NYUACF.BITNET
Subject: call for papers/reviews
Please Post
I. Call For Reviews
II. Call For Papers
III. General information about _Women & Performance_
I. _Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory_
seeks reviews for upcoming issue.
Reviews may examine any and all kinds of performance,
including but not limited to: theater, dance, music, opera,
film and video, visual art, and cultural events (such as
political demonstrations) not normally reviewed as
performance. Books and conferences on related topics are
also reviewed. Reviews of performances outside New York City
are especially encouraged, as are reviews of historically
marginalized performance genres and traditions. Review
essays which challenge the conventions of critical writing
are welcome.
Editor welcomes preliminary discussion of unsolicited reviews
via email.
Submission Deadline:
February 11, 1994
Suggested length: 3-5 double-spaced typed pages
Amanda Barrett, Review Editor
Women & Performance
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
Department of Performance Studies
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
212-998-1625
barretta@acfcluster.nyu.edu
II. Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
seeks articles, performance texts, and reviews for its
forthcoming special issue on
NEW HYBRID IDENTITIES:
PERFORMING RACE/GENDER/NATION/SEXUALITY
Submission Deadline:
March 1, 1994
We are interested in articles and performance texts that
examine how post/neocolonialism and new political identities
are performed, and how such performances reconfigure existing
paradigms and intersections of race, gender and nation. This
issue will focus on performance in the broadest sense, and
will include a spectrum of notions of performativity,
including: theatrical conceptions, linguistic performatives,
"passing" as performance, Judith Butler's reading of gender-
as-performance, and urban culture as performance. Emerging
notions of performance that extend or complicate such
paradigms are welcomed. How postcolonialism performs the
imbrication of race, sexuality and nation will be a central
concern of this issue. We are interested in examining the
politics of contamination as performed in the public and
private spheres. Experimental and performative writing are
encouraged.
The Journal accepts articles of varying length, preferably no
longer than 15 double-spaced typed pages. Send three copies
to:
Editors, May Joseph and Jennifer Fink
Women & Performance
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
Department of Performance Studies
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Submission Deadline:
March 1, 1994
All manuscripts will be reviewed by the editorial board.
Anticipate 6-8 weeks for a response. For further
information, write to the address above or call (212)998-
1625.
III. General information about _Women & Performance_:
_Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory_ is a
vital forum for discussion concerning gender and
representation. W&P features articles on performance and
performativity from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives,
and encourages dialog between varied fields of performance
scholarship (ethnography, dance and theater history,
performance studies, cinema studies, cultural studies) and
emerging critiques on notions of race, ethnicity, class,
sexuality, and nation.
In past issues, W&P has featured performance texts by Anna
Deavere Smith, Spiderwoman Theater, Linda Mussman, and Yvonne
Rainer; articles on the practice and politics of feminist
theory and performance by theorists including Jill Dolan, Sue
Ellen Case, E. Ann Kaplan, Vivian Patraka, and Peggy Phelan;
interviews with Estelle Parsons and Gayatri Spivak. The
Summer 93 issue examined "Feminist Pedagogy"; the Winter 1993
"Feminist Film and Video" edited by Peggy Phelan, is now
available.
Subscription information:
Individuals--one year (2 issues) $14,
two years (4 issues) $24
Institutions--one year (2 issues) $25,
two years (4 issues) $50
Please send check payable to _Women & Performance_ to the
following address:
Women & Performance
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
Department of Performance Studies
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 10:43:00 -0500
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From: "John D. Cox"
Subject: Castle of Perseverance
Recently someone posted a question about the manuscript of *The Castle of
Perseverance*. I forwarded the question to David Bevington, who edited the
Folger ms. and who is not on any network. He sent a full and (to my mind)
helpful reply to me, but unfortunately I do not hve a copy of the original
posting. If you are the person who inquired about *Castle*, or if you know
who posted that inquiry, please let me know. I'll be glad to to send Beving-
ton's message to the original inquirer.
John Cox
cox@hope.cit.hope.edu
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 10:39:44 -0500
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From: "John D. Cox"
Subject: Bevington on *Castle* text
At John Coldewey's suggestion, I am posting David Bevington's
response publicly on the network--his response, that is, to an
earlier inqury about the text of *Castle of Perseverance*.
I don't know directly the answer to your question about Ker, but
I'd check first N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain.
The Macro MS is of course in the Folger Library. I see your
reference to Ker on p. ix of Eccles, without a citation, as you
say. And nothing in the bibliography. Sloppy work. If I can
find this in our library I will attempt to do so. The evidence on
whether we're talking about one or more bifoliums would have to
be in the existing ms, as to how the paper was folded and
gathered. On p. viii Eccles spells it out: there are two
gatherings of 16 leaves each and six leaves of a third gathering.
On p. ix Eccles describes how some leaves have been misshuffled.
What is missing consists of two leaves, put together in the ms to
represent one sheet. Now how to guess whether the original
gathering had 16 or 18 is a bit of a mystery, I would have
thought. Since the existing gatherings have 16, one might suppose
the problematic one had 16 also. I would surmise that Ker is
trying to estimate what is missing and comes to the conclusion
that it's more of a loss than 16 would represent. I talk about
this in my edition of the Folger Ms on p. xviii and hold to the
view that only the one sheet has been lost. I come out with 16,
not 18. You ask if there's any reason the ms might not have had a
2nd quire of 29 leaves. I don't suppose there is, but I don't
see either why one would speculate there might have been.
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 02:55:44 LCL
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From: Alan Brody
sub
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 17:32:30 +1100
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From: Nerida Newbigin
Organization: Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Subject: Collection of essays
An interesting volume of essays has just arrived. Self-interest (yes, mine
is included) prompts me to make it known to a wider audience. Federigo
Doglio's Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale's sixteenth
conference, on Esperienze dello Spettacolo Religioso nell'Europa del
Quattrocento, was held in Rome and Anagni in June 1992, and the proceedings
as usual were published in time for the seventeenth conference in 1993, ed.
M. Chiabo and F. Doglio, and published under the banner of the Ministero
Turismo e Settacolo and Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale,
Rome, 1993. They are distributed by the printer, Torre d'Orfeo Editrice,
s.r.l., Via Roberto Allessandri n. 50, 00151-ROMA, Italy. The table of
contents is as follows:
Apertura dei lavori di Federico Doglio, p. 9
Giovanni Cherubini, Principi e citta alla fine del Medioevo, p. 15
Raimondo Guarino, Prospettive dello spettacolo religioso nell'Italia del
Quattrocento, p. 25
Claudio Leonardi, Il problema del monachesimo e la Firenze del Quattrocento,
p. 59
Paola Ventrone, La sacra rappresentazione fiorentina: aspetti e problemi, p.
67
Nerida Newbigin, Le sacre rappresentazioni della Firenze Laurenziana, p. 101
Giovanni Ponte, Tradizione agiografica e realta quattrocentesca nel S.
Onofrio di Castellano Castellani, p. 121
Giulio Cattin, La musica nelle sacre rappresentazioni fiorentine. Il caso di
S. Onofrio, p. 131
Jean Lacroix, L'angelo regista nelle "sacre rappresentazioni", p. 145
Richard Axton, Theatre-in-the-round in fifteenth-century Britain, p. 171
Jean Subrenat, Eve repentante et pardonee. Une experience spirituelle
originale dans le drame religiuex franeais du XVe siecle, p. 199
Graham Runnals, Le mystere franeais: un drame romantique?, p. 225
Angel Chiclana Cardona, Estructura dramatica de algunos textos medievales en
la lengua castellana, p. 245
Nina Kiraly, The religious theatre in Poland, Hungary and Russia of the
15-16th centuries, p. 259
Jarmila F. Veltrusky, La mondanite de Marie-Madeleine: beaute, joie, peche,
p. 269
Ezio Alberone, Bibliografia italiana, p. 283
Raffaella Bonvicino, Bibliografia straniera, p. 325 [-368]
The bibliographies are valuable as usual; they are prepared by the winners
of the Centre's annual prize for the best theses, and cover a wide range of
publications, both standard and new.
Nerida Newbigin,
Department of Italian,
University of Sydney
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 14:39:04 +0000
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From: Avril Henry
Subject: Re: Bevington on *Castle* text
In-Reply-To: <4365.9401141758@cen> from "John D. Cox" at Jan 14, 94 10:39:44 am
Many thanks for the Bevington posting, John.
> not 18. You ask if there's any reason the ms might not have had a
> 2nd quire of 29 leaves. I don't suppose there is, but I don't
> see either why one would speculate there might have been.
Well, 29 was fanciful--but I DO find some reasons for supposing that
it might have been 20 (I suspect that that is what I meant to type).
The argument must wait to see if my article makes the light of day, but it's
are based on likely and partly provable content of the _lacunae_,
and the average number of lines per leaf (90-100, as Eccles observes).
I am still at a loss to know the evidence for disagreeing with Ker--
but will try to get hold of Bevington's edition of the MS, which we
don't have. Can anyone give me a ref. for it, or a year, so that
I can find it in _NUC_? It didn't come up on MLA CDRom or Bit.Hum.
CDRom.....
--
Avril
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 11:39:05 -0600
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From: KPS@KU9000.CC.UKANS.EDU
"Sub PERFORM KPS@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 13:59:28 -0500
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From: David Klausner
Subject: Book search
This message is for the graduate student (Pennsylvania?) who inquired
a month or so ago about tracking down copies of a list of books on
early drama. Several of the books on your list are in the latest
catalog (#53) from Bennett & Kerr, Millhill Warehouse, Church Rd.,
Steventon, Abingdon, Oxon. OX13 6SW, England. The prices, though not
rock-bottom, are acceptable (Lancashire's edition of Youth and
Hickscorner, for instance, is 7 pounds 50. Send me your mailing
address (to "klausner@epas.utoronto.ca") and I'll mail you the
catalog. Other Perform subscribers may wish to note that the catalog
contains a fairly extensive listing of texts and studies on sixteenth
and early seventeenth century drama, including quite a few facsimile
editions. Good hunting! David Klausner
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 14:32:45 GMT
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From: "Graham A. Runnalls"
Subject: Email advice needed
I am having problems in communicating directly from the
UK with individual members of PERFORM, when using their
indivdual email addresses (as provided by PERFORM).
For example, I have been trying to send the message
attached below to Jay Moore, whose email is given in the
PERFORM list as:
JA_MOORE@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU
I have failed on numerous occasions to get the message
sent, because at this end I am told that the address is "an
unknown host" (or something similar). I have tried sending
it in several variants (based on friends' advice), and have
changed the final "suffix" from .EDU to:
.EARN
.EDU.BITNET
.EARN.BITNET
.EARN.INTERNET
but still I have no success. It would appear that the
individual email addresses of US scholars do not work from
outside the US. (I have no problem with Canadian or
Australian addresses.) What am I doing wrong?
I should add that even to get PERFORM@IUBVM I have to add
.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
To: JA_MOORE@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EARN
Subject: Leedsmazoo Conference
Date sent: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 13:07:27
Would you be the Jay Moore giving a paper at the Leedsmazoo
Conference July? If so, I am chairing the session, and
would be grateful for a brief outline of your paper, if
that is possible. We also have a paper in German, which
could be problematic. I am in contact with Bob Clarke, who
is also speaking on our session.
graham.a.runnalls@ed.ac.uk