MRDS Sessions

102. Medievalism and Marlowe
Thursday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 613, WSCC
Program arranged by the Marlowe Society of America and the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Presiding: Robert Alexander Logan, Univ. of Hartford
1. "Marlowe's Ars Moriendi," Andrew D. McCarthy, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga
2. "A Medieval Tamburlaine: Marlowe and the Legacy of the Crusades," Lee Manion, Yeshiva Univ., NY
3. "Marlowe and Medieval Albania," David McInnis, Univ. of Melbourne
   
211. Performativity versus Theatricality
Friday, 6 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Seneca, Sheraton
Program arranged by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Presiding: Robert L. A. Clark, Kansas State Univ.
Speakers: Garrett P. J. Epp, Univ. of Alberta; Mario Longtin, Univ. of Western Ontario; Ineke Murakami, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York; Jefferey H. Taylor, Metropolitan State Coll. of Denver
Session Description: Performativity has become a key concept in literary studies of the medieval and early modern periods, but its relationship to the theater is ill defined. This roundtable brings together specialists of French and English medieval and early modern theater to examine the application of these critical terms to early drama. Aspects to be discussed include rhetoric, tensions about feigning or counterfeiting of the self, anthropological considerations, and queer performativity.

Other Sessions on Medieval and Renaissance Drama

270. Clocks, Jacks, Jacquemarts: Time as Character in Early Modern Drama
Friday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 606, WSCC
Presiding: Richard Mark Preiss, Univ. of Utah
1. "'For Now Hath Time Made Me His Numbering Clock': Shakespeare's Jacquemarts," Wendy Beth Hyman, Oberlin Coll.
2. "Tick-Talk: Hamlet," Richard Mark Preiss
3. "'Observe the Sawcinesse of the Jackes': Clock Jacks and the Complexity of Time in Early Modern England," Tiffany Stern, Univ. of Oxford, University Coll.

397. Tyrants in Early English Drama
Saturday, 7 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 618, WSCC
Presiding: Rebecca Bushnell, Univ. of Pennsylvania
1. "'Agaynst the Right': The Tyrants of Chester Cycle," Heather Mitchell-Buck, Hood Coll.
2. "Tyrannous Justice in Cambyses and Shakespeare," Julia M. Garrett, Univ. of New England
3. "'The Tyrant . . . Tires Me an Aunt': Complaint, Tyranny, and The Winter's Tale," Donald Jellerson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater

429. New Directions in Earlier Tudor Drama
Saturday, 7 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 306, WSCC
Presiding: Maura Giles Watson, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln; Erin E. Kelly, Univ. of Victoria
1. "'They Make the Chronicles Themselves': Paranoid History in John Bale's King Johan," Philip Schwyzer, Univ. of Exeter
2. "Theater as Politics, Theater as Art: William Briton, an Early Reader of Gorboduc," Laura Estill, Univ. of Victoria
3. "Ecocritical Heywood and The Play of the Wether," Jennifer L. Ailles, Chicago, IL
4. "'To See the Playes of Theatre Newe Wrought': Electronic Editions of Early Tudor Drama," Brett Hirsch, Univ. of Western Australia

478. Material Translations in Early Modern Theater
Saturday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Ravenna A and B, Sheraton
Program arranged by the Division on Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare, and the Division on Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Presiding: Natasha Korda, Wesleyan Univ.
1. "Angelo Beolco and the Early Modern English Stage," Nicoletta Pazzaglia, Univ. of Oregon
2. "Adventures of a Chopine," Pamela Allen Brown, Univ. of Connecticut, Stamford
3. "Spanish Gypsies Englished: Cervantes, Middleton, and The Spanish Gypsy," Emily Weissbourd, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

489. Theme of War in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
Saturday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Boren, Sheraton
Program arranged by the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
Presiding: Robert M. Shannon, Saint Joseph's Univ.
1. "Military Values in Agustín Moreto's La misma conciencia acusa," Tania de Miguel Magro, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown
2. "The Expendable Ones: Black Men, Cross-Dressers, and Effetes in Claramonte's El valiente negro en Flandes," Nelson López, Bellarmine Univ.
3. "War Machines: Instrumentality, Empire, and Utopia in Early Modern Spanish Drama," Cory A. Reed, Univ. of Texas, Austin

680. Medieval Drama and Performative Theology
Sunday, 8 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 617, WSCC
Program arranged by the Division on Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
Presiding: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
1. "Performing Christians Performing Jews," Sylvia Tomasch, Hunter Coll., City Univ. of New York
2. "'The Word Made Flesh': A Barfieldian Analysis of Ritual Creation in the York Cycle," Jefferey H. Taylor, Metropolitan State Coll. of Denver
3. "Performing Justice: Law and Theology in the York Plays," Emma E. Lipton, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
4. "'Be Ye Thus Trowing': Medieval Drama and Make-Believe," Garrett P. J. Epp, Univ. of Alberta
 

Sessions on Drama, Including Medieval and Renaissance

456. Inscription and Performance
Saturday, 7 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Ravenna A and B, Sheraton
Program arranged by the Division on Drama
Presiding: Claire Sponsler, Univ. of Iowa
1. "Mexican Identities and YouTube Shakespeare," Ruben Espinosa, Univ. of Texas, El Paso
2. "Mortal Inscriptions: Performative Writings on the Body," Cara Elisabeth Ogburn, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
3. "On Book: Scriptive Texts in Performance," Christopher Grobe, Amherst Coll.

Sessions of Interest:

242. Rethinking the Category of Love: Cognition, Emotion, and Biopolitics
Friday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 619, WSCC
Program arranged by the Division on Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
Presiding: Glenn D. Burger, Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York; Marilynn R. Desmond, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York
Speakers: Christian Beck, Univ. of Central Florida; Holly Crocker, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia; Aranye Fradenburg, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Wan-Chuan Kao, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York; Sarah Powrie, Saint Thomas More Coll.
Session Description: In addressing the long and significant critical history concerning love in the Middle Ages, this roundtable will question what that history has left out or occluded. It will consider what new directions might be indicated when we look at the role of cognition, emotion, and biopolitics in premodern representations of love.

Papers of Interest

165. Teaching Early Literature and Why It Matters
Thursday, 5 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., 306, WSCC
1. "Entertaining Discord: Medieval Drama in the Modern Classroom," Mary L. Raschko, Mercer Univ.