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September 1994
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 13:38:00 -0400
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Date: 15-Sep-1994 01:35pm EST
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 13:35:04 -0400
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From: David Klausner
Subject: Conferences
I still have space for papers in two conference sessions for next
summer of interest to Perform/Reed-ers:
at K'zoo, May 4-7: (sponsored by MRDS) _The Other Medieval Dramas:
Cornish, Welsh, Breton_ I've so far not had any submissions in Breton
drama; if you or anyone you know is working in this field, I'd very
much like to have a paper. Failing that, I would be happy to have an
abstract in either Cornish or Welsh drama.
at Leeds, 10-13 July: (sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of Toronto) _Medieval Plays/Renaissance Manuscripts_
abstracts on any work dealing with the relation between plays in
performance and plays in manuscript, or the nature of the
manuscript(s). This is not restricted to English drama.
If you're interested, please let me know quickly, since the session
information needs to be in by the end of the month.
David Klausner
klausner@epas.utoronto.ca
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 18:24:37 -0500
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 21:32:14 -0400
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Subject: LISTSERV list information home page
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 19:38:12 -0700
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From: Jesse Hurlbut
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: Newberry Seminar
I just found out about the seminar at the Newberry Library's Center
for Renaissance Studies on "Renaissance Ceremonial Orders." Is there
anyone on the list who was in attendance at the first session who'd
like to give a report on how it's going? The promo looks
interesting.
Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 20:17:36 -0500
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From: RIGGIO@ADS.CC.TRINCOLL.EDU
Subject: Re: Newberry Seminar
And while you're at it: how about a report for the MRDS newsletter?
Bst,
Milla Riggio
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 12:59:25 -0400
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From: Andrew David Ryder
Subject: Medieval Performance Publications
I am a graduate student at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. This
summer I finished my Master's Thesis at Michigan State based on a
contemporary adaptation of part of the N-town Passion. I am interested
in getting the chapter on staging published, so I thought this might be
a good place to start.
Can anyone suggest publications which are geared toward this kind of
performance research, and indicate who I might contact or send an
abstract to?
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thank You.
Andrew Ryder
Bowling Green State University
email: aryder@bgnet.bgsu.edu
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:23:57 -0700
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From: Jesse Hurlbut
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: Adam Editions
It's time to order books for next semester. Does anyone know of a
good edition of either the 'Jeu d'Adam' or the 'Jeu de St. Nicolas'?
I'd like something with both modern and original French, if possible,
but I'll take what I can get.
thanks,
Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 09:19:11 +0000
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From: "Graham A. Runnalls"
Organization: Arts
Subject: Re: Adam Editions
Surprisingly, there is no good, recently-published
edition-plus-translation into French of the Jeu d'Adam.
a) The best critical edition (unfortunately out of print)
is:
W. Noomen, Jeu d'Adam, Paris : CFMA 1971.
This is the classic academic French-language edition, with
Notes and Glossary, but no translation.
b) Also worth noting is the edition by Paul Aebischer,
Geneve : TLF 1964, which (controversially) includes the
Quinze Signes du Jugement sermon, which follows the Adam
play in the Tours ms.
c) The old (and old-fashioned) critical edition (with Notes
and Glossary in English) by P. Studer, Manchester :
Manchester University Press 1918, has its virtues, too.
Probably the best for use with US students is none of
these, but:
A. Robert Harden, Trois Pieces Medievales (Jeu d'Adam,
Miracle de Theophile and the Farce du Cuvier), New York :
Irvington 1982. This has full notes (including translations
of "difficult bits" into Modern French) It also translates
the Latin elements in French.
Two good translations into English exist, though I do not
know if they are still in print:
a) in Axton and Stevens, Medieval French Plays (all the
main 12th and 13th C plays), Oxford : Blackwell, 1971.
b) Lynette Muir's translation published by Leeds
University Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, probably
in the 70's. I don't have a copy to hand.
I believe a new French edition + translation
(in an anthology) is in preparation, but not immediate. I
personally have a private copy of a very good,
annotated translation into French (a French MA
dissertation), which (confidentially, not for public use -
I have promised-) I could send you on disk, if you like.
The bibliography on the Jeu d'Adam is enormous. If you want
some advice, let me know. The best single article is by W.
Noomen in Romania 1968. The best single book is Lynette
Muir's Liturgy and Drama in the Anglo-Norman Adam, Oxford
: Blackwell : Medium Aevun Monographs, 1973. I can also
recommend good articles by Tony Hunt on unity (Romania
1975) and by Accarie on staging (Melanges Pierre Jonin
1979). Don't fall for that "outside the west front of a
cathedral" staging-theory. It was (in my opinion, and in
that of Accarie and Noomen} put on inside the church. It is
a liturgical drama.
Best of luck,
Graham Runnalls
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 07:50:13 -0400
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From: Steve Wright
Subject: Re: Adam Editions
The Adam is available in a dual-language version in David Bevington's
_Medieval Drama_, but the volume may be a bit pricey if you are only
doing a play or two instead of a whole course on drama. There is an
English translation of the Nicolas in Axton & Stevens, _Medieval
French Drama_ (also a trans. of Adam, I think), but this handy little
anthology is (alas) long out of print.
--Steve Wright
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 18:01:00 CDT
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From: Robert Clark
Subject: play texts
Jesse,
I have had to deal with the same frustrations you are now experiencing
for a course that I am teaching this semester (a survey of French
medieval lit. for upper-level/masters students). It has been very
difficult to come up with decent modern French translations of some of
the texts, the "Jeu d'Adam" perhaps most of all. Why this should be the
case is something of a mystery to me. There are several recent critical
editions, but none includes a French translation. I used the old
translation in Frappier and Gossart, _Le Theatre religieux au Moyen Age_
(Classiques Larousse, 1935). It really is inadequate, though, for
several reasons. The editors chose to cut entirely the long disdascalie
and the incipits of the opening lesson and responsary. And from the
procession of the prophets they include only the dialogue between Isaiah
and the Jew... in the original OF. I still used it and gave the
students photocopies from Bevington for the missing parts. I think I
would have done better just to use the Bevington text.
There is, BTW, a recent article by Emanuel Mickel on the _Jeu d'Adam_,
which has a useful review of the scholarship and an analysis of the
legal aspects of the text. It's in one of the most recent issues of
_Romania_.
There is a bilingual (original and modern French) edition of the _Jeu de
saint Nicolas_ by Albert Henry, 3rd ed. (Bruxelles: Palais des
Academies, 1980). It is probably not the kind of edition that you would
want to order for your students (i.e. very expensive--it runs to almost
500 pp. with intro., notes and glossary). But there is always the
course packet route...
Hope this helps.
Bob Clark
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 00:34:00 +0100
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From: JELLE KOOPMANS
Subject: Re: Adam Editions
See also Michel Rousse's article in Arras au Moyen Age (forthcoming, announced
for fall 1994.
Jelle Koopmans
PS Teh edition of Jean Bodel's Jeu de S. Nicolas remains Albert Henry PIUB.
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 21:38:46 -0700
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From: Timothy Tikker
Subject: Re: play texts
In-Reply-To: <9409290119.AA18990@efn.efn.org>
On Wed, 28 Sep 1994, Robert Clark wrote:
> Jesse,
>
> I have had to deal with the same frustrations you are now experiencing
> for a course that I am teaching this semester (a survey of French
> medieval lit. for upper-level/masters students). It has been very
> difficult to come up with decent modern French translations of some of
> the texts, the "Jeu d'Adam" perhaps most of all. Why this should be the
> case is something of a mystery to me.
True enough. Why not read it in old French? I survived Medieval French
lit. in old French as neither a French major (2 yrs of college French) nor
medieval scholar - just a performer really interested in the music.
Julia Harlow
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 10:44:00 CDT
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From: Robert Clark
Subject: OF for undergrads
In response to Julia Harlow:
I would be interested to know in what context you "survived Old French."
I suspect that you were perhaps an especially motivated and interested
student taking a class offered at the master's level. (Just a hunch.)
The context here is a class made up of two M.A. students and twelve
undergraduates, not all majors, of varying levels of interest and
linguistic competence, i.e. for at least some of them, reading a text
like the Roland in modern French translation is already quite enough of
a challenge. It is really not possible to teach OF texts in a class
like this one, believe me. On a more positive note, using bilingual
editions does allow one to refer to certain aspects of the OF text,
which is why it would be nice to have a bilingual ed. of the Adam.
Also, in teaching lyric poetry I try to work more closely with the
original. This is esp. rewarding, I think, if one has a recording of
the text. Of course, the Adam and the Ludus Danielis are already
bilingual texts to a certain extent, an aspect which is lost in a single
language translation.
I'd be interested to hear how other folks negotiate this pedagogical
challenge.
Cheers,
Bob
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 15:20:23 -0500
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From: Duane Kight
Please add me to your mailing list. Thanks!
Duane