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April 1996
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 15:06:24 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut"
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: (Fwd) CALL FOR PAPERS (fwd)
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The Seventh Annual Columbia Medieval Guild Conference
DEATH, JUDGMENT,
AND
THE ESCHATOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
Saturday, October 26, 1996
Philosophy Hall, Columbia University
Roundtable Moderator: Professor Caroline Walker Bynum, Columbia University
Keynote Address: To be announced
Performance: The Wakefield Last Judgment
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference will address eschatological awareness in ancient,
medieval, and modern cultures and will focus on how this awareness of the
"End" influenced literature and social, religious, political, and
cultural practices. The day will open with a panel discussion on
methodological approaches to the topic. This will be followed by the
presentation of graduate student papers, an afternoon keynote address,
and a performance of the Wakefield Last Judgment play.
Possible topics include: eschatology; resurrection and immortality;
heaven, hell, and purgatory; penance and pilgrimage; institutionalized
asceticism and "death to the world"; death, relics, and remembrance; the
cult of saints; burial and funerary practices; ghosts and otherworld
journeys; and apocalypticism and millenarianism.
Graduate students and recent recipients of the Ph.D. in Art History and
Architecture, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, and English and
language departments are invited to submit papers.
GRADUATE STUDENTS: please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief
biography by June 10, 1996.
Medieval Guild
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall
Columbia University
New York, New York 10027
For further information, please contact:
Liz Weinstock Mary Agnes Edsall
eaw22@columbia.edu mae4@columbia.edu
(212) 473-1545 (212) 316-2104
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:54:52 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut"
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: Call for information
I would also like to invite all session organizers for the Kalamazoo
sessions dealing with Medieval and Renaissance performance (MRDS or
any others) to give us a sneak preview of the upcoming papers by
sending abstracts or some other brief teasers to PERFORM.
In addition, if anyone has any information, announcements, reports,
etc. to submit for the upcoming MRDS Newsletter, please contact me
at:
Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 06:15:12 EST
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Steve Urkowitz
Subject: Re: Q. about film: Mystery of Elche (x-post from MEDTEXTL)
In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:17:32 -0500 from
Grover Zinn asks about films of things medieval. I wonder if there might be de
veloped some useful protocols for video-documenting and archiving productions o
f such events. If everyone involved in this list would know that their campus
or village production of Hrosvit's DULCITIUS or the First Shepherds Pageant fro
m the Towneley MS should be recorded from, let us say, two camera positions wi
th attention paid to details selected and commented on by the director and cast
. . . If the Folger, or REED, or UNESCOcould ast as a repository for videos .
. . or if they could be catalogued in a major university film library that doe
s lending through the mails of copies . . .
Just dreaming.
Steve Urkowitz
English (soon Theatre)
City College of New Yo
rk
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 08:05:27 -0500
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: James Mills
Subject: Re: medieval plays
The wall paintings in Denmark painted 1100-1600, can contribute to a better
understanding of the staging of the medieval religious play. See my website
for particulars. Thnaks, Jim
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:22:54 GMT
Reply-To: nic@leah.demon.co.uk
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Nic Fawcett
Subject: Re: postgraduate dissertation
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nic@leah.demon.co.uk
I'm just starting work on my postgraduate dissertation which is provisionally
entitled 'The idea of kingship in late medieval English drama'. I'm planning to
focus most specifically on Skelton's 'Magnyfycence' and Lindsay's 'Thrie
Estatis' with perhaps some reference to Bale's 'King Johan'. I've done some
preparatory reading, but I wondered if anyone could suggest appropriate
bibliographical resources either on or off the net, or any specific texts that I
absolutely shouldn't miss.
I'm particularly lacking in details of any recent works on medieval political
philosophy.
If you'd prefer to Email me privately rather than clogging up the list my
address is nic@leah.demon.co.uk
Thanks in advance
Nicole Fawcett
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 05:23:16 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Jody Enders
Subject: Re: Q. about film: Mystery of Elche (x-post from MEDTEXTL)
In-Reply-To: <01I2WM8QNNFM8WWON1@cu4700.cua.edu>
Believe it or not, I just heard a conference paper on this very topic by
an ethnomusicologist named Girolamo Garafolo (Soprintendenza ai Beni
Culturali e Ambientali de Palerme). You might want to contact him in
Palermo. Ah, the advantages of sabbatical!
Jody Enders
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:06:54 -0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Clifford Davidson
Subject: Re: Q. about film: Mystery of Elche (x-post from MEDTEXTL)
In-Reply-To: "Your message dated Wed, 10 Apr 1996 05:23:16 -0700"
I am grateful for Jody Enders' information about a recent article by an
ethnomusicologist on the Play of Elche (or Elx, as the people from Catalonia
call it), and am replying to Perform List people since I suspect that others
may be interested also in knowing about the publication of articles in
_Medieval English Theatre_ on the Elche play, most recently publication of the
text by Pamela King and Asuncion Salvador-Rabaza (Vol. 14, 1992). I am often of
necessity getting the word out about our own Medieval Institute publications,
but this gives a chance to put in a word for METh, which is available from
Lancaster University, Lancaster LY1 4YT, England.
At the same time I should feel obligated to call attention to an article in the
_Early Drama, Art, and Music Review_ by Dunbar Ogden on "Set Pieces and Special
Effects in Liturgical Drama_ (Part I, with Part II coming up in the fall). I do
want to encourage subscriptions to this little journal too, since it is
provided as a service to all the folks who are interested in early drama. Other
articles in the spring issue are by Hans-Jurgen Diller, Elza Tiner, and Gloria
Betcher, and reviews by Rick Emmerson, Doug Sugano, Sr Ingrid Peterson, and
Fletch Collins, the latter (at 90 years of age!) reporting on performances of
liturgical drama. For those of you who are not yet subscribers, the cost is
only $8 per year, available from Medieval Institute Publications, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008.
Cliff Davidson
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:40:23 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut"
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: (Fwd) Reformation-era theatre (fwd)
Forwarded Message From REED-L:
This query comes from a non-member, so if you can help, please reply to
the addresses he gives in his note rather than (or in addition to) the
list.
Abigail
Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W
Toronto Ontario Canada
Phone (416) 585-4504/FAX (416) 585-4594/reed@epas.utoronto.ca
http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page
http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed-l.html => REED-L's home page
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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 14:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: rbartel@io.uwinnipeg.ca
To: reed@epas.utoronto.ca
Subject: Reformation-era theatre
I am a Canadian playwright currently working on a play about the Anabaptist
Kingdom in the German city of Muenster in 1534-1535. The eventual King of
Muenster was the young actor and playwright, Jan Boeckelson van Leyden.
The brief Kingdom became a prime example of Reformation-era apocalypticism,
informed as it was by Boeckelson's Davidic and visionary leadership (learned
at least in part, through his earlier portrayals of King David in a
rhetorician's guild in Leyden).
I have been seeking some medieval theatre texts to incorporate into my play
and I was wondering if you could help me obtain some of the following:
1) assorted monologues in the role of King David;
2) any depictions of Judgement which, in whole or in part, involve two
males, one of whom is ushered into Hell by the Devil.
3) any other specifically heretical, Anabaptist, or apocalyptic theatre
text, while not necessary, could be helpful.
For all of these, I would need them either in English or English-translation.
Any and all help that you could offer me would be appreciated.
If you are replying after April 17th, please direct your messages to
Thanking you in advance,
///Rob Bartel
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:52:40 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut"
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: Call for session proposals
In preparation for the MRDS business meeting at Kalamazoo, I would
like to invite anyone interested to propose conference topics for
sessions at MLA and K'zoo 97. Please send topics to either:
Larry Clopper
Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
Thank you.
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:55:57 -0500
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: Mark E Campbell
From: VIPER::CAMPBEM2839 15-APR-1996 12:03:18.61
To: CAMPBEM2839
CC:
Subj: Call For Papers: Constructions of Time in the Late Middle Ages
*DISPUTATIO*
An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages
CALL FOR PAPERS
*Disputatio* is an international transdisciplinary annual of the
late middle ages (ca. 1300-1550) published by Northwestern University
Press. Each issue provides exhaustive and diverse treatments of one
significant example of late medieval culture by scholars representing
various nations, approaches, and disciplines. We feature scholarly
articles, inclusive review essays, and a comprehensive bibliography
on each issue topic.
FALL 1997 ISSUE: *Constructions of Time in the Late Middle Ages*
SUBMISSIONS DUE: November 1, 1996
Scholarly articles and research notes concerning all aspects of late
medieval constructions of time are welcome. Topics may include but
are not limited to:
-Time and narrative
-Eternity and perpetuity
-Time, space, and infinity
-Time and authority
-Future contingents
-Artistic portrayals of time
-Travel and time
-Law and time
-Gender and time
-Human life cycle
-"Kairos"
-Nominalist and realist perspectives on time
-Clocks, work, and time (Werkglocken)
-The late medieval calendar
-Mysticism and time
-Meter, rhythm, and time
-Succession, inheritance, and generations
-Memoria
-Eschatology
-Tense structures in late medieval languages
-Cosmology and cosmogeny
-Allegories of time
Length is 4,000-12,000 words for articles, 2,500 words for research
notes. If you are interested in writing review or bibliographic essays,
please contact us. We will consider articles in English or either major
European languages or Latin with substantial abstracts in English.
Please ask for our style sheet.
ADDRESS: Carol Poster and Richard Utz, Editors
*Disputatio*
English Department, Baker 115
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
e-mail: disputatio@cobra.uni.edu
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 14:32:43 GMT
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "D.A. PACKER"
Organization: University of Leeds
Subject: Summer programme in Leeds
Dear subscribers,
I am writing to let you know about the forthcoming summer programme
at the University of Leeds (UK) in July this year:
The Graduates' Conference runs from 11-14 July '96 (immediately after
the Leeds International Medieval Congress). It will be grouped into
10 sessions, some parallel, some shared with the Intensive Programme,
and participants also have the opportunity to visit the York Minster
Library. Papers (of around 20 minutes) may be submitted on any
subject relating to the European Middle Ages: abstracts should be
sent to the Programme Administrator (address below) by Friday, 24
May.
The Intensive Programme (11-18 July 1996) is a week long summer
course on "Manuscripts and their Contexts". Academic staff from
Cambridge, Copenhagen, Dublin, Glasgow, Groningen, Helsinki,
Lancaster, Leeds, Moscow, Poitiers, and Utrecht will teach on a
range of subjects from drama to new computer applications. Some
sessions will also be shared with the Graduates' Conference,
including the trip to York.
Further information and registration forms for both can be obtained
from the Local Administrator:
David Packer, International Medieval Institute, Parkinson Building
1.03, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Tel. +44 (113) 233-3617
Fax. +44 (113) 233-3616
E-mail: D.A.Packer@leeds.ac.uk
Programme Administrator:
Drs. Marinus M. Woesthuis, IMI Netherlands Office, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen, COMERS, Oude Boteringestraat 23, Postbus 716, 9700 AS
Groningen, NETHERLANDS
Tel. +31 (50) 363-7261
Fax. +31 (31) 363-7263
E-mail: woesthus@let.rug.nl
Also, for those on mediev-l, my own particular interest is Norman
Southern Italy/Sicily (more especially the abbey of Monte Cassino and
11th/12th military affairs). Are there any others out there?
David Packer
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 06:33:48 -0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Cynthia Dessen
Subject: ACTER openings 1996-97 (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 06:32:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cynthia Dessen
To: List Shaksper
Subject: ACTER openings 1996-97
ACTER has an opening Oct. 7-13, 1996 for a residency of *Much Ado About
Nothing*. I am particularly interested in any schools in the area of
Arkansas to TExas and could make a discount for this week. ACTER also has
openings Feb. 17-23 and March 3-9, 1997 for *Romeo and Juliet* - please
contact us if you are interested. Cynthia Dessen, Gen. Manager,
csdessen@email.unc.edu
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 16:01:07 -0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Karen Saupe
Subject: TEAMS - Teaching Middle Ages (cross-posted)
This is an invitation to contribute to two forums for the teaching of things
medieval.
The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS) will meet at
this spring's Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo to discuss plans for the 1997
Congress. I am writing to solicit suggestions - once again, everything from
general topics to specific, detailed session proposals are welcome. If
you're willing to organize or chair a session, or if you would like to
recommend a colleague to do so, please let me know.
Please email your ideas to me at ksaupe@calvin.edu by May 3. Thanks.
I also edit the TEAMS newsletter, which comes out twice a year, and I'm
looking for good material. Submissions are welcome at any time -
articles, announcements related to teaching, questions, ideas. Our
membership includes teachers at all levels - mostly college and
university, but growing numbers of teachers who work with younger students.
Thanks,
Karen Saupe ksaupe@calvin.edu
Department of English, Calvin College Office: (616) 957-6467
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 06:00:58 -0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Cynthia Dessen
Subject: Renaissance event in Pacific NW?
I wonder if anyone can tell me about some kind of Renaissance
conference planned for April 97 between the Renaissance Society of
America and the Pacific Northwest REnaissance Conference, perhaps in
British Columbia? I heard about this at the recent International
Shakespeare Ass'n meeting in LA, but would like more information on dates
and a contact. Thank you, please reply off list if you prefer to
csdessen@email.unc.edu
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 19:53:27 -0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Konrad Eisenbichler
Subject: Re: Renaissance event in Pacific NW?
In-Reply-To:
The conference you are inquiring about is the annual meeting of the
Renaissance Society of America, to be held in Vanouver, Canada, in April
1997 (I forget the days), in conjuction with the Pacific-North-West RSA.
The local coordinator is Prof. Paul Budra, of the Dept of English at
Simon Fraser University. I have forwarded your inquiry to him, but in
case you want to contact him first, his e-m is
budra@sfu.ca
You could also contact the RSA itself at its NY office:
rsa@is.nys.edu
Cheers,
Konrad Eisenbichler
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:59:27 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut"
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: MRDS Business Meeting at K'zoo
Just a final reminder that there will be an MRDS (Medieval and
Renaissance Drama Society) business meeting at the Kalamazoo
conference. All members of the society--and any interested
non-members--are invited to attend. The meeting will be held in the
Stinson Lounge, Friday May 10 at 5:00pm.
We will decide on topics for Kzoo 1997 and MLA 1997 at the meeting.
Proposers of sessions may bring their proposals to the meeting or
e-mail them to our President, Larry Clopper (Clopper@indiana.edu) no
later than Tuesday, May 8.
Thank you,
Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
MRDS Secretary/Treasurer
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:27:55 -0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Margaret Ann Pappano
Subject: Hrotsvit at Kalamazoo
A few weeks ago there was a request on PERFORM for the posting of
abstracts for the drama sessions at Kalamazoo. The Medieval and
Renaissance Drama Society is sponsoring a session on the dramatic works
of Hrotsvit, which is scheduled for Friday, May 10th at 3:30.
The speakers are as follows:
- Julie Crosby, "Hrotsvitha Says `Burn This': Worthy Words for Wealthy Women"
- Barbara Gold, "Hrotsvita Writes Herself: Clamor Validus Gandesheminsis"
- Mark L. Damen "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cloister:
Hrotsvitha and the Tradition of Ancient Comedy"
The session will also include a short response by James Dominick Cain of
Columbia University. The abstracts follow (please excuse any typos), from
which you will see that this session promises to present three diverse but
not discordant approaches to Hrotsvit's dramatic works--textual,
contextual, and production-oriented--while the speakers themselves are from
three different field affiliations: Comparative Literature, Classics, and
History. In addition, two of the participants,
aside from their scholarly work on Hrotsvit, have been involved in
productions of her plays. Hence, this is an ideal panel for Hrotsvit &
more general early drama enthusiasts as well as those with an interest in
monastic life and medieval women.
Margaret Pappano, session organizer
The abstracts:
1. Julie Crosby, "Hrotsvitha Says `Burn This': Worthy Words for Wealthy
Women"
Two of Hrotsvitha's plays include a scene in which a
self-sufficient harlot burns her ill-gotten jewels, money and clothes.
The repetition of this scene and other striking parallels between Hr's
portrayals of the harlots Maria and Thais suggest that this tenth century
playwright and nun was making significant statements about the
relationship between women and wealth.
A textual comparison of the plays *Abraham* and *Pafnutius*
reveals that Hr was probably drawing on Prudentius's *Psychomachia* to
define the sin of the harlots as one of luxury and greed rather than of
lust. Further, the male agents of these plays undergo a physical and
linguistic transformation that allows them to enter the world of secular
commerce wherein the harlots reside. Hr's portrayal of the fall of the
harlots as a fall into luxury, greed, and secular commerce is unique
among her plays.
Once the unique nature of the harlots' falls is established, it
becomes increasingly apparent that Hr is making heterodox claims
regarding the suitability of prostitute's alms. There is no Biblical or
extant doctrinal precedent for Hr's suggestion that a reformed
prostitute's wealth should be burned rather than given away; on the
contrary, sources suggest that the giving of alms benefits the giver,
regardless of past sins.
Hr's heterodoxy seems to arise from her gendered view of the
relationship between women and wealth. By comparing her dramatic
portrayals of men and wealth to her portrayals of women and wealth, we
find that women can grasp intellectually what men must see enacted in
visual signs in order to achieve faith and redemption. For women, words
are sufficient to bring about conversion and maintain faith.
It takes the economic strategy of Hr to endow women with a wealth
of words. Maria and Thais can, ultimately, abandon and burn their
temporal wealth because they, as women, are capable, like Hrotsvitha, of
storing up far more valuable riched with only their loud and effective
voices.
2. Barbara Gold, "Hrotswitha Writes Herself: Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis"
Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, a tenth-century Sacon canoness, is the
first known dramatist of Christianity and the first Medieval poet to
have consciously attempted to remold the image of the literary depictions
of women. Her six plays, in which her stated aim is to glorify the
Christian church and to exalt the ideal of chastity, make extensive use
of the Roman comic playwright, Terence. In this essay, I first discuss
Hr's reputation as a female playwright and the misreading of her work as
a result of various forms of bias in the scholarship. I then explore
Hr's self-presentation in the prefaces to her plays and its echoes in her
characters. Next, I examine Hr's relationship to her male
classical/pagan and hagiographical sources as well as the role played by
Hr's audience. Finally, I analyze one of Hr's dramas, the *Passio
Sanctarum Virginum Agapis Chioniae et Hirenae* (Dulcitius). In her plays
and prefaces, Hr vindicates her female protagonists, with whom she and
her audience would presumably have identified, and establishes a space to
define herself and the women's culture in which she lived. She thereby
becomes a chronicler of women's tales and a creator if women's history,
capable of shaping and influencing women's ways of knowing.
3. Mark L. Damen "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cloister:
Hrotswitha and the Tradition of Ancient Comedy"
Though often depreciated as theatre and deprecated as
unstageworthy, the comedies of Hr are stageable, and even comical when
examined in their full context with an open mind to comedic values.
Working from a production of *Callimachus* and *Dulcitius* translated by
the author and staged in May 1995, this paper will explore the theatrical
and comic virtues of Hr's drama which are best evidenced and in fact only
fully accessed when realized on the stage.
In appreciating her texts as theatre scripts, we must being by
recognizing her debt to the classical tradition of comedy. Not only does
she freely draw on Terence as she herself admits, but the farcical tone
and even some of the langauge of *Dulcitius* especially resonates of the
broader Plautine tradition of comedy. Yet, no classical play can have
guided her in the composition of her plots, because the quick scene
changes and rapid character development that are the hallmarks of her
plays are simply unattested in classical theatre. Either she has
invented this "cinematic" treatment of plot structure or she is dependent
upon some non-classical ancient dramatic tradition such as mime. in
either case, her drama represents an enormous and as yet uncredited step
towards modern theatre.
Other well-attested features of classical theatre redound in her
theatrical compositions. She uses plural characters (Soldiers, Friends)
as multipersonal entities, which differ markedly in their treatment from
ancient choruses. These sorts of plural beings are, however, evidenced
in two of Plautus's plays (*Rudens*, *Poenulus*). Hr's plays also offer
the performers the possibility of multiple role-playing as we know all
plays did in classical antiquity. Neither *Dulcitius* not *Callimachus*
requires more than eight players to perform all the toles even with three
performers taking on each plural character. As in classical comedy,
there are "bridgine scenes" to cover these changes offstage, and the
doubling and tripling of parts engendersan interesting subtext of
interconnected roles (e.g. Dulcitius/Sisinnius).
All in all, these plays demand serious attention as workable
pieces for the stage, and insofar as they represent the only theatrical
texts for nearly half a millennium in Western theatre, they deserve more
serious consideration as theatre than we have generally accorded them.
By looking at Hr's plays in this, if not more objective, less objecting
light, we find in her plays effective, performable and even comic strips
suitable for production in her or any day.
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:50:47 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut"
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: (Fwd) CALL FOR PAPERS
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CALL FOR PAPERS
TEXTUAL PRaCTICE AND THEATRICAL LABOR:
SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
1997 Ohio Shakespeare Conference
Department of English
Ohio State University
Columbus OH
May 16-18, 1997
Featured Speakers:
Stephen Orgel (Stanford University)
Leah Marcus (University of Texas, Austin)
Jeff Masten (Harvard University)
Douglas Bruster (University of Texas, San Antonio)
The 1997 Ohio Shakespeare Conference invites paper and session proposals on
any aspect of the business of the theater in Shakespeare's lifetime, from
reexaminations of textual and editing problems, to the material and
economic conditions within which dramatic scripts, texts and performances
were produced and consumed in the many transactions that occured among the
interested parties: consumer, player, patron, printing house, playhouse,
playwright.
The conference seeks new research on, and new conceptualizations of,
some of the oldest critical and historical questions concerning early
modern theater: What economic, ideological, and phenomenological structures
shaped and were shaped by the performance of dramatic and theatrical work?
How do such structures affect textual and theatrical production and
reproduction? What bearing do such concerns have on questions of
topicality, influence, didacticism, patronage, or the evolution of dramatic
tastes and genres?
While Shakespeare will undoubtedly figure prominently, the conference
aims at somewhat broader coverage. Work on Shakespeare's contemporaries in
the theater, therefore, as well on Shakespeare's collaborative work, is
encouraged. Suitable panel and paper topics include, but are not limited
to:
** acting as labor * "playhouse interpolations" and the production of
meaning * textual variants and the economics of revision * sites and scenes
of dramatic composition * collaborative authorship * acting as action *
text v. work * work v. labor * work and play * script as work product * the
cultural work of the theater * performance as artifact * employment
contracts * entrepreneurship * contractual and theatrical performances *
promises * wagers * joint stock companies and corporate
personality * professional competence and incompetence * expertise and
training * divisions of labor in theatrical practice, and in dramatic
representation * material phenomenologies of the theater * represented time
and the time it takes to represent it * acting, identity and alienation *
consumption (e.g., playgoing) as work * dramatic representations of
economic relationships * pirates and "dramatic piracy" * acting
and ownership * censorship and economics * economics and/of influence **
For more information, or to submit abstracts for 20-minute presentations,
or proposals for sessions (deadline: December 20, 1996), contact:
Luke Wilson or Chris Highley
Department of English
Ohio State University
164 W. 17th Ave
Columbus OH 43210-1370
voice: 614-292-6065
fax: 614-292-7816
email: Wilson.501@osu.edu; Highley.1@osu.edu
____________________________________________________________________
Luke Wilson * Assistant Professor * Department of English *
Ohio State University * 164 West 17th Ave * Columbus OH 43210
lwilson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu; 614-292-6065; 614-292-7378
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 12:42:53 GMT2
Reply-To: fgmr@engl.uovs.ac.za
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Margaret Mary Raftery
Organization: University of the Orange Free State
Subject: MLA address requested
Would anyone happen to have an e-mail address for the MLA, suitable
for querying membership fees?
Ordinary mail from here is so slow and unreliable that I'd really
appreciate it.
My private e-mail address (so as not to clutter up the list) is
fgmr@engl.uovs.ac.za
Many thanks
Margaret Raftery
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:36:12 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut"
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: PERFORM Administrative Matters
Here's my annual reminder of PERFORM-related business. Please save
this letter for future reference.
1) 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 list 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 in a mail message to
LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
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.
***
*** IF YOU KNOW YOU WILL NOT BE CHECKING YOUR MAIL FOR A WHILE,
*** PLEASE SET YOUR OPTIONS TO NOMAIL USING THE ABOVE COMMAND.
***
2) Avoid possible embarrassment by observing these LISTSERV
conventions:
- 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.
- Send instructions (SUB, UNSUB, SET MAIL, SET NOMAIL, etc) to
LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
- Send actual discussion and mail to
PERFORM@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
3) You can get a list of PERFORMers and their e-mail addresses by
sending the following command to LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
REVIEW PERFORM
4) Help regarding LISTSERV commands and conventions is also available
by sending the command INFO to any LISTSERV location.
5) I remind you that PERFORM also maintains a Web Site for the
distribution of other kinds of materials besides mail. If anyone
has papers not otherwise destined for publication, abstracts,
bibliographies, course syllabi, etc. 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.
The PERFORM Web site is located at:
http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/perform.html
To date, the site includes monthly logs of all correspondence on
PERFORM (since May 1992) and a short conference paper on
feasts and funhouses in XVth-Century Burgundy (significant only as
a demonstration of the web site's potential capabilities).
I have a couple of Syllabi and at least one bibliography to add
probably sometime in May or June.
As always, if you have questions or problems about the PERFORM
Listserv or Web Site, do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Jesse Hurlbut
PERFORM List Administrator
jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu