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June 1994
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 18:56:08 EDT
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From: Jesse Hurlbut
Subject: PERFORM Digests
Dear PERFORMers,
As of June 1, 1994, I have enabled the DIGESTS feature of the PERFORM
listserv. Allow me to explain briefly what it does and how you can
get it to work for you.
DIGESTS are long files that are distributed automatically and which
include all of the correspondence on PERFORM for a given week. The
DIGESTS are not edited in any way; what you see is exactly what was
posted to the list in a given week. The week's letters are
concatenated into a single long file which is delivered every
Monday. This option is intended for those list members who may
prefer to catch up on their reading of PERFORM in one sitting (rather
than as mail comes in from day to day).
If you wish to receive the DIGESTS (instead of the individual
postings as they are sent), please send an e-message to either
address:
listserv@iubvm
listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu
On the first line of text, type:
set perform digests
You should receive an automated response indicating your updated
options.
Here are some additional notes regarding DIGESTS borrowed from the
manual:
This new option is an alternative to MAIL and NOMAIL. When switching
around between these delivery options, users will observe the
following behavior:
- When switching to NOMAIL: delivery stops immediately. The digest
is not sent, as the user is assumed to request immediate termination
of traffic from the list.
- When switching from any option to DIGESTS: mail delivery stops
immediately. The first digest may contain some items the user has
already seen (if switching from MAIL).
- When switching from DIGESTS to MAIL, the current unfinished digest
is immediately mailed to the user. New messages are delivered
normally, as they arrive. Thus, a "trick" to get a copy of the
current digest is to switch to MAIL and then back to DIGESTS. You
can send both commands on separate lines in the same mail message to
make sure they are executed together.
Please note that all PERFORM correspondance is archived and may be
retrieved from the FILESERVer at any time (without setting the
DIGESTS option). Send the command GET PERFORM FILELIST to one of the
addresses mentioned above for more information.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly,
Jesse Hurlbut
frejdh@ukcc.uky.edy
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 11:30:29 CST
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From: Kathleen M Lipovski
Subject: subscribe
Please add me to this list. Thanks!
Kathleen Lipovski
University of Texas at Austin
pukml@utxdp.dp.utexas.edu
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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 16:29:58 -0400
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From: Helen Ostovich
Subject: SECOND NOTICE -- CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND NOTICE
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Expanding the Canon: New Dimensions in English Renaissance
Studies", this year's McMaster University English Association
Conference, will be held on November 18, 1994. Scholars are
invited to submit papers which rediscover and explore neglected
areas of English writings, 1560-1625, such as lesser known
dramatic, poetic, and prose works, travel literature, emblem books,
women's writing, masques, and popular culture. Plenary speaker:
Jean Howard (Columbia). Respondent: Paul Stevens (Queens).
Send completed 10-page/20-minute papers by OCTOBER 3, 1994, to
Dr Helen Ostovich or Dr Mary Silcox,
Dept of English,
McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada L8S 4L9
e-mail inquiries: ostovich@mcmaster.ca
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 15:07:49 -0500
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From: "John D. Cox"
Subject: stage devils
In support of a project I am presently working on, I have
compiled a list of plays that stage devils, in a more or less
continuous acting tradition, from the beginning of English drama
to the end of the seventeenth century. My list appears below,
excluding cycle plays. Dates are from Harbage, Schoenbaum,
Wagonheim, Annals of English Drama. I have benefitted
from Berger and Bradford, An Index of Characters in
English Drama to the Restoration.
I am publishing my list on the network with a request for
additions and corrections. My information is especially spotty
toward the beginning and end of the time period, but I would be
glad for assistance with any part of it.
1405-25 Castle of Perseverance
1450-1500 Mind, Will, and Understanding (The Wisdom That Is
Christ)
1465-70 Mankind
1480-1520 Mary Magdalene
1560 Thomas Ingelend, The Disobedient Child
1565 R. Wever, Lusty Juventus
1568 Ulpian Fulwell, Like Will to Like
1572 Nathaniel Woodes, Conflict of Conscience
1574 The Interlude of Minds
1577 Thomas Lupton, All for Money
1578 Thomas Garter, Most Virtuous and Godly Susannah
1588-93 Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
1589-92 Robert Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
1590 Robert Wilson, Cobbler's Prophecy
1592 A Knack to Know a Knave
1592 Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI
1596 Fulke Greville, Mustapha
1600 William Haughton (revised by "I.T."), The Devil and His
Dame (probably the same as Grim the Collier of Croydon,
or The Devil and His Dame, published 1662)
1601 John Day and William Haughton, Friar Rush and Proud Woman
of Antwerp (lost, payment recorded by Henslowe)
1602 The Merry Devil of Edmonton
1600-04 George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois
1605 George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey
1606 Thomas Middleton (?), The Puritan
1606 Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters
1607 Barnabe Barnes, The Devil's Charter
1608 Samuel Rowley, The Birth of Merlin
1609 Nathan Field, A Woman Is a Weathercock
1611 Thomas Dekker, If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is in
It
1611 Thomas Heywood, The Silver Age
1613 Robert Daborne, Machiavel and the Devil
1615 John Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas
1616 Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
1620 Thomas Middleton and Samuel Rowley, The World Tossed at
Tennis
1619-20 I.C. (John Cumber?), The Two Merry Milkmaids, The Best
Words Wear the Garland
1619-23 The Two Noble Ladies and the Converted Conjuror
1621 Dekker, Ford, Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton
1622 John Fletcher, The Prophetess
1623 John Fletcher, The Devil of Dowgate, or Usury Put to Use
1625 John Fletcher, The Chances
1631 Ben Jonson, Chlorida
1633 Aston Cokain, Trappolin Creduto Principe
1634 William Davenant, The Temple of Love
1635 James Jones, Adrasta
1635 John Kirke, Seven Champions of Christendom
1637 Thomas Nabbes, Microcosmus
1638 William Davenant, Luminalia
1638 John Suckling, The Goblins
1639 1 St. Patrick for Ireland
1670 William Davenant and John Dryden, The Tempest, or The
Enchanted Island
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 16:24:00 EDT
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From: bill mccarthy
Subject: Re: stage devils
In-Reply-To: COX AT HOPE.CIT.HOPE.EDU -- Thu, 9 Jun 1994 15:07:49 -0500
Thee N-Town plays, or at least the Creation/Adam and Eve, have devils. And so,
I think, do other mystery plays, though I don't have them at hand at the
minute to confirm that.
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 16:42:12 EST
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From: Larry Clopper
Subject: Re: stage devils
For the earlier drama through the sixteenth century, there are the Chester,
York, Towneley and N-Town plays and the Newscastle Noah.
Larry Clopper
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 23:37:00 EDT
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From: John Bell
Subject: Re: stage devils
Thomas Dekker's _Troia Nova Triumphans_, the Lord Mayor's Pageant
for 1612, featured "Luciferan" masked demons, in the service of Envy,
who plagued the new lord mayor at a Castle of Envy set up near the
conduit in Cheapside. (_The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker_, ed. Fredson
Bowers, vol. III, p. 238. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1966.)
John Bell
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 17:14:33 +1000
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From: Nerida Newbigin
Organization: Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Subject: Re: stage devils
Reply to: RE>stage devils
As (apparently) the only Italianist lurking on this list, can I mention a
volume that is marginal to your study? _Diavoli e mostri in scena dal Medio
Evo al Rinascimento._ [Proceedings of Conference in Rome, 30 June - 3 July
1988.] Ed. Myriam Chiabo and Federico Doglio. Rome: Centro Studi sul Teatro
Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1989.
Contains papers on Italian, French, Spanish and Elizabethan devils. It is
the custom of the Centro to award several scholarships to new graduates who
then prepare an annotated bibliography on the subject of the conference. In
this volume, the bibliography runs from pp. 418-511, with a good range of
books and articles in major European languages.
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 22:54:23 -0700
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From: John Coldewey
Subject: Re: stage devils
In-Reply-To: <9406100724.AA29720@carson.u.washington.edu>
More on Devils: in the Digby *Conversion of St. Paul* (1st quarter
16th C.) there are two quite wonderful devils, Belial and Mercury. See
the EETS edition of The Digby Plays by Donald Baker, John Murphy, and
Louis Hall, or my recent *Early English Drama* (Garland, 1993).
A good number of French plays have devils in them too; you may want to
check some of them out.
John Coldewey
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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 21:14:23 -0400
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From: Steve Wright
Subject: Re: stage devils
My two favorite stories concerning stage devils--
In Freiberg (Saxony) in 1523, 12 men were playing the role of stage
devils on day 3 of a 3-day performance. Suddenly they were joined by
the real devil, who danced with them and thenn abducted one of their
number, leaving only 11 behind. Spooky.
The second story comes from Hettstedt. In 1488, a certain woman of the town
was punished by the council for some civil infraction. Her children vowed
to avenge her. They got roles as devils in the town's Easter play, and
during the performance they ran through the streets setting fire to
everything in sight (rememnber the use of fire and various pyrotechnics
by devils on stage). They succeeded in setting fire to 14 separate
buildings, all of which were miraculously extinguished except for
one stall on the marketplace. No mention in the records as to
what this one poor merchant had done to deserve lack of divine fire
protection, nor any word as to the fate of the miscreant sons.
--Steve Wright
Catholic University
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 00:57:00 EDT
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From: John Bell
Subject: Re: stage devils
Perhaps these might be helpful:
1) Macgowan, Kenneth and Ross, Herman. _Masks and Demons_. New York: Harcourt
Brace and Company, 1923. (Youthful Americans go to Europe interested
in finding out about masks in popular performance. Some of this
includes photos of masks going back to medieval times.)
2) Fabregas, Xavier and Barcelo, Pau. _Cavellers, Dracs i Dimonis: Itinerari
a traves de les Festes populars_. Barcelona: Publicaciones de l'Abadia
de Montserrat, 1976. (Catalan masked demon and dragon traditions,
going back to the middle ages; these traditions surfaced in the
closing ceremonies of the last Olympics.)
I assume Allardyce Nicolls _Masks Mimes and Miracles: Studies in the Popular
Theater_ was an obvious early source, as well as E.K. Chambers and Twycross and
Carpenter's "Masks in Medieval English Theatre" articles. (E.K. Chambers, and
Twycross and Carpenter; I don't mean to suggest a trio, excuse me.)
John Bell
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 06:33:57 EDT
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From: Steve Urkowitz
Subject: Re: stage devils
In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 12 Jun 1994 21:14:23 -0400 from
Though not a "real" devil, Dulcitius in Hrostvit's DULCITIUS is mistaken for a
devil after he happily copulates with cooking-pots, believing them to be three
Roman virgins. His soldiers flee from him. (Incidentally, I've often thought
that the plot of DULCITIUS has elements resembling the plot of THELMA AND LOUIS
E, though I wouldn't want to suggest influences at work.)
Steve Urkowitz
devilishly humid this morning in NYC
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 17:04:04 -0500
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From: SMIGEL%HWS.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject: call for papers
CALL FOR PAPERS -- Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association
Friday, Oct. 28, to Sunday, Oct. 30, 1994
Oglebay Park Resort, Wheeling, West Virginia
Papers for panels related to Performance Studies and popular culture and/or
Medievalism are solicited for the 1994 meeting of the
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association meeting Oct. 28-30 in
Oglebay Park, Wheeling, West Virginia
Send abstracts (150-words or more) or full-length papers (no more than 15
pages for a 20-minute presentation) by JULY 1 to either:
Ted Bain, area chair for performance studies
Theatre/English
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY 14456-3397
bain@hws.bitnet
OR
Veronica Kennedy
area chair for Medievalism
St. John's University
Grand Central & Utopian Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
Please include your audio-visual requirements in your proposal. You
will bbe notified by the beginning of August on whether your paper has
been accepted. If you want to organize a panel of three or four
presenters, you may propose to do so; please include titles, authors and
abstracts for each paper for the panel.
Undergraduate and graduate students who want their papers considered
for the two annual student prizes should send two copies of the completed
paper by JULY 1 to: Stanley Blair, MA PCA program chair, Wesleyan College,
4750 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA 31297.
For a complete list of area chairs for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture
Conference, please e-mail Libby Smigel, at smigel@hws.bitnet
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 11:21:10 EDT
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From: "William A. Fregosi"
Subject: Re: stage devils
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu,
09 Jun 94 15:07:49 -0500. <9406091912.AA04896@MIT.EDU>
I understand that you ae taking a strict construction of the term "stage devil"
but assuredly Richard III is, in appearance, action, and written word, a very
small step away from the center of the tradition.
William Fregosi
Technical Coordinator for Theatre Arts, M.I.T.