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MRDS Publication and Presentation Awards - Winners
Past winners of the annual MRDS awards.
David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies
| 2010 | Tiffany Stern. Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| 2009 | Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern. Shakespeare in Parts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| 2008 | Carol Symes. A Common Stage: Theatre and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. |
| 2007 | Pamela King. The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006. |
| 2006 | Philip Butterworth. Magic on the Early English Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| 2004 | Meg Twycross and Sarah Carpenter. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. |
| 2003 | Glenn Ehrstine. Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern, 1523-1555. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 85. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002. |
| 2002 | Lawrence M. Clopper. Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. and Max Harris. Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. |
| 2001 | Michael O'Connell. The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. |
| 2000 | Gordon Kipling. Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. |
Martin Stevens Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies
| 2010 | Scott Oldenburg, "Toward a Multicultural Mid-Tudor England: The Queen's Royal Entry Circa 1553, The Interlude of Wealth and Health, and the Question of Strangers in the Reign of Mary I," ELH 76.1 (2009): 99-129. | |
| 2009 | Steven Wright, "Wrangling Livestock, Dragons, and Children: Pragmatic Stagecraft and Its Thematic Consequences in The Augsburg St. George Play (c. 1486)," Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama 47 (2008): 51-71. | |
| 2008 | Erika Lin, "Performance Practice and Theatrical Privilege: Rethinking Weimann's Concepts of Locus and Platea," New Theatre Quarterly 22 (2006): 283-298. | |
| 2007 | Noah D. Guynn, "A Justice to Come: The Role of Ethics in La Farce De Maistre Pierre Pathelin,” Theatre Survey 47 (2006): 13-31. | |
| 2006 | Barbara D. Palmer, "Early Modern Mobility: Players, Payments, and Patrons," Shakespeare Quarterly 56 (2005), pp. 259-305. | |
| 2005 | Max Harris and Lada Čale Feldman, "Blackened Faces and a Veiled Woman: The Early Korčula Moreška," Comparative Drama 37 (2004): 297-320. | |
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| 2003 | Carol Symes, "The Appearance of Early Vernacular Plays: Forms, Functions, and the Future of Medieval Theater," Speculum 77, no. 3 (July 2002). | |
| 2002 | Theresa Coletti, "Paupertas est donum Dei: Hagiography, Lay Religion, and the Economics of Salvation in the Digby Mary Magdalene," Speculum 76, no. 2 (April 2001). | |
| 2001 | Gloria J. Betcher. "Translating a Labour Dispute in the Cornish Ordinalia Within a Legal Context." Fourteenth-Century England, Vol. I, ed. Nigel Saul (London: Boydell Press, 2000). | |
| 2000 | Stephen K. Wright. "Joseph as Mother, Jutta as Pope: Gender and Transgression in Medieval German Drama." Theatre Journal 51 (1999). |
Alexandra Johnston Award for Best New Conference Paper in Early Drama Studies by a Graduate Student
| 2010 | Thomas Meacham, "Liber Apologeticus: Academic Drama as Textual and Cultural Practice in Late Medieval England." Presented at Kalamazoo 2009. |
| 2009 | Frank Napolitano, "Miraculous Rhetoric: The Relationship between Rhetoric and Miracles in the York 'Entry into Jerusalem.” Presented at Kalamazoo 2008. Subsequently published in Early Theatre 12.2, Dec. 2009. |
| 2008 | Susannah Crowder, “Recontextualizing the Performances of the Drogo Sacramentary within Ninth-Century Metz.” Presented at SITM 2007. |
| 2007 | No winner |
| 2006 | Christopher Lee, "Jews as Didactic Instruments" delivered at the New Medievalism II conference, University of Western Ontario, 11 March 2005. |
2005 | Jenna Soleo, "'Teatro' in Piazza: Siena's Piazza del Campo as a Performance Space," delivered at SITM in Elche in 2004. |
Barbara D. Palmer Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Archives Research
| 2010 | David Kathman, "The Rise of Commercial Playing in 1540s London," Early Theatre 12.1 (2009). |
