MRDS Sponsored Sessions

Lighting the Flame: Teaching Early Drama in the Undergraduate Classroom (A Roundtable)
Friday 10:00
Session 194
Fetzer 2020
Organizer: Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State Univ.
Presider: Gloria J. Betcher
"The Burgundians knew how to party!": Student Engagement with a Primary-Source-Based Unit on Medieval French, Flemish, and English Performance
   Lofton Durham, Western Michigan Univ.
"Can we do this all the time?": Forming a Medieval Drama Troupe
   Elizabeth Ellzey, Shepherd Univ.
What Is Medieval Spanish Drama Anyway?
   Lori A. Bernard, SUNY-Geneseo
(Extra)Ordinary Women: Teaching Female Agency in Margery Kempe and the York Plays
   Sheila Christie, Cape Breton Univ.
The Text-Appeal of Medieval Drama for a Texting Generation
   Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute

Proselytism and Performance across the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Friday 1:30
Session 248
Fetzer 2020
Organizer: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
Presider: Jill Stevenson
Proselytism and Performance in the Benediktbeuern Christmas Play
   Sylvia Tomasch, Hunter College
"The Fall": Performing the Conquest in Colonial New Spain, 1538, and Madrid, 1689-1690
   Michael A. Winkelman, Bowling Green State Univ.
Performing Puritan in the Early Modern Public Sphere
   Simon du Toit, Dordt College

Medieval Drama and the Apocrypha
Friday 3:30
Session 306
Fetzer 2020
Organizer: Clifford Davidson, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Clifford Davidson
Performing the Book concerning the Childhood of the Savior (Liber de infantia salvatoris)
   Mary Dzon, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Transforming Sign into Drama: Apocryphal Exposition in the Chester Nativity Sequence
   Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby, Shenandoah Univ.
The Devil Has All the Best Tunes: Imagining Hell in the Towneley Plays
   Pamela M. King, Univ. of Bristol

Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Business Meeting with cash bar
Friday 5:15
Fetzer 2020

Chester 2010: What Did We Learn? What’s Next? (A Roundtable)
Saturday 10:00
Session 365
Fetzer 2020
Organizer: Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby, Shenandoah Univ.
Presider: Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby
A roundtable discussion with Alexandra F. Johnston, Univ. of Toronto; Theresa Coletti, Univ. of Maryland; J. Case Tompkins, Purdue Univ.; Robert W. Barrett, Jr., Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; and Don-John Dugas, Kent State Univ.


Other Sessions of Interest

Staging History: The Shakespeare Experience
Thursday 10:00
Session 17
Valley I 107
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Kirilka Stavreva, Cornell College
Presider: Joseph F. Stephenson, Abilene Christian Univ.
The Welsh Paradox in Shakespeare’s Tudor Adaptation in 1 Henry IV
   Jason R. Gildow, Independent Scholar
Shakespeare’s Elizabeth in 3 Henry VI and Richard III: Doting Mother? Temptress? Witch? "Poor Painted Queen"? Dynasty Maker?
   Nancy Hayes, St. Ambrose Univ.
Staging Shakespeare Staging the Middle Ages: Richard III, Richard III, and Performance
   Richard J. Ellman, Univ. of Notre Dame

The Performance of Medieval Drama
Thursday 10:00
Session 34
Schneider 1325
Presider: David N. Klausner, Univ. of Toronto
Women and Performance in Medieval and Early Modern Suffolk: The Emerging Picture
   James Stokes, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Participatory Performance in Medieval Artistic Reception
   Peter Scott Brown, Univ. of North Florida
The Rolls and Y Gwr Cadarn: Performing an Early Welsh Play
   Sarah B. Campbell, Boston Univ.

Shakespeare’s Middle Ages
Thursday 1:30
Session 64
Valley I 107
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Kirilka Stavreva, Cornell College
Presider: Carole Levin, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
Historical Retelling and the Rhetoric of Sovereignty in 2 and 3 Henry VI
   Kavita Mudan, Univ. of Oxford
"Jesu, The Days That We Have Seen": Justice Shallow as Historian in 2 Henry IV
   Nora L. Corrigan, Mississippi Univ. for Women
"A woman clad in armor chaseth them": Gloriana, La Pucelle, and the Myth of the Monstrous Woman
   Dianne Berg, Clark Univ.
Echoing Boethius in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
   Linda Shenk, Iowa State Univ.

Pronunciation and Performance in Medieval Song (A Roundtable)
Thursday 1:30
Session 80
Schneider 1280
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society, North American Branch
Organizer: Elizabeth Aubrey, Univ. of Iowa, and Samuel N. Rosenberg, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Presider: Elizabeth Aubrey
A roundtable with Samuel N. Rosenberg, Douglas Simms, Southern Illinois Univ.-Edwardsville; David N. Klausner, Univ. of Toronto; Joan Tasker Grimbert, Catholic Univ. of America; and Susan Hellauer, Queens College, CUNY/Anonymous 4.

Brainstorming Early Drama: Cognitive Approaches
Thursday 1:30
Session 81
Schneider 1325
Sponsor: Comparative Drama
Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Anthony Ellis, Western Michigan Univ.
Cognitive Theory, Medievalism, and Evangelical Dramaturgy
   Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
The Golden Thermos of God: Anachronism as Conceptual Blending in the York Cycle
   Karen Ward, Univ. of Waterloo
An Empirical Perspective on Performance in the Middle Ages
   Lofton Durham, Western Michigan Univ.

Materiality of Performance in Early Drama: Objects, Props, Costumes, Bodies, Space, and More
Thursday 3:30
Session 128
Schneider 1325
Sponsor: Comparative Drama
Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Cynthia Klekar, Western Michigan Univ.
"Pren ce coustel; avançons-nous": Props and Performance in Two French Hagiographic Mystery Plays
   Vicki Hamblin, Western Washington Univ.
Monkeying Around in Medieval York, or, What was Wrong with the York Masons’ Pageant?
   Jesse A. Njus, Northwestern Univ.
"What Citadels, what turrets, and what towers": Cognitive Responses to the Tower of London in Thomas Heywood’s Street Theater
   Kristen Deiter, Carroll Univ.

Readers’ Theater Performance of the Digby Conversion of Saint Paul (followed by a Roundtable Discussion)
Thursday 7:30
Session 144
Valley I 105
Sponsor: Chaucer Studio
Organizer: Warren Edminster, Murray State Univ.
Presider: Warren Edminster
A readers’ theater performance with Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson Univ.; Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute; Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State Univ.; D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor Univ.; Susan Yager, Iowa State Univ.; Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.; Justin Brent, Presbyterian College; Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby, Shenandoah Univ.; and Patricia H. Ward, College of Charleston.

Reader’s Theater Performance of Paul Menzer’s Shakespeare on Ice
Thursday 7:30
Session 145
Valley I 107 [sic]
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Kirilka Stavreva, Cornell College
Presider: Kirilka Stavreva
A reader’s theater performance of Shakespeare on Ice by Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College.

Death by Hot Tub: Performance of Equitan
Friday 10:00
Session 209
Schneider 1275
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Elizabeth W. Poe, Tulane Univ.
Presider: Monica L. Wright, Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette
Equitan: A Reconstruction of the Performance of a Twelfth-Century Lai
   Ronald Cook, Independent Scholar
An Affair to Remember
   Tamara Bentley-Caudill, Independent Scholar
The Scalding Tub. Ay There’s the Rub!
   Walter A. Blue, Hamline Univ.
Respondent: Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.

Teaching Medieval Drama
Friday 3:30
Session 335
Bernhard 204
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico, and Laura Weigert, Rutgers Univ.
Presider: Laura Weigert
Mankind: The Omnibus Text
   Kathleen Ashley, Univ. of Southern Maine
Medieval Drama and Contemporary Dramaturgy: Experiential Learning in the Twenty-First Century
   Edmund B. Lingan, Univ. of Toledo
How to Trust a Medieval Dramatist: The Example of the French Farce
   Mario Longtin, Univ. of Western Ontario
Is There a Play in This Book? Editing Lydgate’s Mummings and Entertainments
   Claire Sponsler, Univ. of Iowa

Teaching Medieval Narrative and Performance
Saturday 10:00
Session 376
Schneider 1225
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Laura Wangerin, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Representing the Middle Ages in the Today’s Classroom: Teaching History, Literature, and Analysis through Performance
   Jennifer Lynn Jordan, Stony Brook Univ.
"Performing Medieval Narrative Today" Website: Updates and Future
   Marilyn Lawrence, New York Univ.
Tiny but Filling Slices: Fitting Medieval Texts into an Overstuffed Literary Survey
   Paul Creamer, East Stroudsburg Univ.
Performing Female Authority in the Digby Mary Magdalene
   Kristi J. Castleberry, Univ. of Rochester
Respondent: Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.

In Honor of Alan Knight I: Picturing Performance, Performing Pictures
Saturday 1:30
Session 430
Schneider 1220
Sponsor: Early Drama, Art, and Music
Organizer: Stephen Wright, Catholic Univ. of America
Presider: Jody Enders, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara
"Mémoire suis qui fay revivre": Hubert Cailleau and the Commemoration of the Valenciennes Passion Play
   Laura Weigert, Rutgers Univ.
Missing the Picture: The Role of the Manuscript in Late Medieval Drama
   Danielle Magnusson, Univ. of Washington
"Figure . . . Signifiant . . . ": Visualizing Connections between Plays of the Lille Procession
   Jesse D. Hurlbut, Brigham Young Univ.

In Honor of Alan Knight II: Musical Thinking, Thinking Musically: The Interrelationships of Musical Theory, Performance Practice, and the Other Arts
Saturday 3:30
Session 486
Schneider 1220
Sponsor: Early Drama, Art, and Music
Organizer: Timothy J. McGee, Trent Univ.
Presider: Timothy J. McGee
The Music of the Feast of Fools
   Max Harris, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
"Here they synge": Music, Musicians, and Musical Parts on Henrician Stages
   Maura Giles-Watson, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
Boethian Music Theory and the Middle English Romance Sir Orfeo
   Lisa Myers, Univ. of New Mexico
Reading Performance Practice in Jean Renart’s Guillaume de Dole
   James Terry, Univ. of Washington

Skepticism in Early English Drama
Sunday 3:30
Session 521
Valley I 109
Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.
Presider: David Bevington, Univ. of Chicago
A "Myrroure" of Belief: Playing the Incredulity of Thomas in the N-Town Cycle
   Joseph Stadolnik, Yale Univ.
The Function of Stage Muslims as Skeptics in Medieval English Drama
   Emma Maggie Solberg, Univ. of Virginia
"Portrait of the Atheist as a Smart Man": Shakespeare’s Richard of Gloucester
   Joe Ricke

Medieval Musical Theater: Song, Dance, and Liturgy in Early Drama
Sunday 10:30
Session 557
Fetzer 2020
Organizer: Katherine Steele Brokaw, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Presider: Andrew Bozio, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Civic Harmony and Music in the London Pageant after Agincourt
   Alison Tara Walker, Univ. of California-Los Angeles
Solemnity and Sin in Wisdom, Who Is Christ
   Katherine Steele Brokaw
Poor Souls Sighing: Performing Inarticulacy in Othello and the Willow Song
   Angela Heetderks, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor


Other Papers of Interest

Secularization I
Thursday 1:30
Session 66
Valley I 110
Drama and Secularization
   John Parker, Univ. of Virginia (Second Paper)

Hell Studies
Thursday 1:30
Session 76
Fetzer 2040
" . . . o vile earth, worse for us devils, than hell it self for man!": Why Helpful Devils of Medieval Exempla Re-emerge in Elizabethan Theaters
   Brenda Carr, Univ. of Toronto (First Paper)

Spatial Practices in Medieval German Culture I: Space, Destruction, Seclusion
Sunday 8:30
Session 527
Fetzer 2016
Acoustic Spaces: Creating Communal and Exclusive Spaces in Late Medieval Sisterbooks and Religious Drama
   Nicola Vöhringer, Univ. of Toronto (Third Paper)