MRDS Sponsored Sessions

Parody, Farce, and Authority in Early Drama
Friday 3:30 p.m.
Session 304
Fetzer 2016
Organizer: Cameron Hunt McNabb, Univ. of South Florida
Presider: Frank M. Napolitano, Radford Univ.
“Lippy Kids:” Cheeky Servants, Parody, and Anxiety in Early English Drama
Victor I. Scherb, Univ. of Texas–Tyler
Hocus Pocus and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
Cameron Hunt McNabb
Marian Parody in the N-Town Plays: Religious Polemic and Divine Adultery
Emma Solberg, Univ. of Virginia
Invisible Voices: Sight and Speech in Le garçon et l’aveugle
Evan Bibbee, Minnesota State Univ.–Mankato

Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Business Meeting with cash bar
Friday 5:15 p.m.
Fetzer 2016

Affect and Emotional Production in Early Drama
Sunday 8:30 a.m.
Session 519
Valley II 202
Organizer: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
Presider: Jill Stevenson
Performing Women in N-Town and the Castle of Perseverance
Alexandra F. Johnston, Univ. of Toronto
Posthuman Affect and Early Modern English Anti-Theatrical Tracts
Farrah Lehman Den, New York Institute of Technology
Un-idle tears: Signaling Sorrow and Inspiring Action at the Feast of the Pheasant
Christina Normore, Northwestern Univ.

Tableaux Vivants
Sunday 10:30 a.m.
Session 563
Schneider 1255
Organizer: Jesse Hurlbut, Brigham Young Univ.
Presider: Robert Clark, Kansas State Univ.
Is the Tableau Vivant a Form?
James Stokes, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
A Missing Pageant for Queen Elizabeth’s Entry into London, January 1558/59?
Gordon Kipling, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Hijacked Saints, Alien Nations, and Visiting Sovereigns.
Nancy J. Kay, Merrimack College

Medieval Drama Performance

A Readers’ Theater Performance of Mankind (A Performance and Roundtable Discussion)
Thursday 7:30 p.m.
Session 153
Valley I 107
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.; Susan Yager, Iowa State Univ.; Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.; Justin Brent, Presbyterian College; Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby, Shenandoah Univ.; and Trish Ward, College of Charleston.

Other Sessions of Interest

Performing Gender and Shakespeare
Thursday 10:00 a.m.
Session 30
Schneider 1130
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Joseph F. Stephenson, Abilene Christian Univ.
Presider: Joseph F. Stephenson
Margaret of Anjou’s Revenging Identity: Dehumanization and the Mutability of Female Revenge
Liberty Stanavage, SUNY–Potsdam
“Nor I Nor Any Man”: Fiona Shaw’s Un-queer Richard II
Lea Luecking Frost, Lindenwood Univ.
“Taffeta Phrases, Silken Terms”: Performing Rhetorical Dandyism in Love’s Labour’s Lost
Maura Giles-Watson, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
“The Office Becomes a Woman Best”: Paulina and the Prophetic Shrew in Early English Drama
Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.

Medieval Drama
Thursday 1:30 p.m.
Session 62
Valley I 101
Presider: Angela Heetderks, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Change Noted)
Hybridized Grief in the N-Town “Betrayal”
Frank M. Napolitano, Radford Univ.
Affective Violence in Two Medieval Slaughter Plays (Paper Withdrawn)
Robin Hizme, CUNY
Setting the Scene in England’s Medieval Mystery Plays: Shaping Affect through Conceptual Blends of Time and Place
Kristen Deiter, Tennessee Tech Univ.

Musician as Profession in the Middle Ages
Thursday 1:30 p.m.
Session 90
Bernhard 204
Sponsor: Early Music America
Organizer: David N. Klausner, Univ. of Toronto
Presider: David N. Klausner
The English Musician as Storyteller
Linda Marie Zaerr, Boisie State Univ.
Early Tudor Musicians in the London Livery Companies
David Kathman, Independent Scholar
On the Way to a Wedding: Minstrels with Princess Eleanor of England, April– June 1332
Richard Rastall, Univ. of Leeds

Problematizing Parenthood in Shakespeare
Thursday 3:30 p.m.
Session 116
Valley I
Shilling Lounge
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Joseph F. Stephenson, Abilene Christian Univ.
Presider: Carole Levin, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
Medieval Macbeth: Blood and Bloodlines
Lesley E. Jacobs, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Son of the “Accursed Womb”: Maternal Rejection and the Dichotomous Womb in King Richard III
Julia Bluff, California Polytechnic State Univ.–San Luis Obispo
Staging Childbirth in Macbeth
James C. W. Truman, Huntingdon College

Where Sacred Meets Secular: Medieval Drama
Thursday 3:30 p.m.
Session 149
Bernhard 213
Organizer: Robin Waugh, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.; Peter V. Loewen, Rice Univ.
Presider: Robin Waugh and Peter V. Loewen
Courtroom Drama: Heavenly Justice and Earthly Law in the Towneley Judgment
Britt Mize, Texas A&M Univ.
Solemnity and Sin: Music in East Anglian Drama
Katherine Steele Brokaw, Univ. of California–Merced
“Bi the Holi Roed!”: Religious Language in Dame Sirith
Luke William Mills, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Civic Charity, the Mercer’s Hospital, and the York Last Judgment
Nicole R. Rice, St. John’s Univ

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo Lecture
Thursday 7:30 p.m.
Session 168
Bernhard 105
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Joseph F. Stephenson, Abilene Christian Univ.
Presider: Joseph F. Stephenson
Shakespeare and Religion
David Bevington, Univ. of Chicago

From Mankind to Marlowe and Back Again: Growth of Scholarship in the Popular Drama of Tudor England in the Age of Bevington
Friday 1:30 p.m.
Session 244
Valley I
Shilling Lounge
Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.
Presider: Joe Ricke
Examining Interactions with Dutch Characters in Tudor Drama: From “Traditional Hostilities” to Radical Hospitality
Joseph F. Stephenson, Abiline Christian Univ.
Shakespeare’s Parables
Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan Univ.
Popular Tudor Drama: What We Thought We Knew, What We Thought We’d Find, and What We Think We Know Now
Peter Greenfield, Univ. of Puget Sound
The Age of Bevington
John Cox, Hope College

Elizabeth I and Shakespeare
Friday 1:30 p.m.
Session 263
Schneider 1245
Sponsor: Queen Elizabeth I Society
Organizer: Anna Riehl Bertolet, Auburn Univ.
Presider: Kavita Mudan Finn, Georgetown Univ.
Androgyny and Authenticity: A Study of the Persuasive Performativity of Feminine Power on Elizabethan Stages
Leslie Haines, Auburn Univ.
“Ambassadors of Love”: Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, Elizabeth I, and Anglo-French Diplomacy in the Mid-1590s
Linda Shenk, Iowa State Univ.
Venus and Adonis, the Boar, and War
Thomas Herron, East Carolina Univ.
Hearing the Early Modern: Musicking Elizabeth and Shakespeare
Kendra Preston Leonard, Independent Scholar

Performativity in Early Music and Drama
Saturday 10:00 a.m.
Session 362
Fetzer 2020
Sponsor: Early Drama, Art, and Music
Organizer: Alexandra F. Johnston, Univ. of Toronto; Véronique Plesch, Colby College
Presider: Alexandra F. Johnston
“With One Voice”: Memory, Chant, and the Performance of Christian Identity
Jordan Baker, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville
“Ut Aedificentur Audientes”: Monastic Music as a Perlocutionary Act
Sara Miller Schulte, Western Michigan Univ.
Resurrecting Callimachus (and Sapientia) on the Contemporary Stage: Revealing the Performative Potential of Hrotsvit’s Dramas Using Pop Music, Puppets, and Pageantry
Jenna Soleo-Shanks, Briar Cliff Univ.
Watching Thomas Grope: Vicarious Performances of Medieval English Biblical Dramas
Mary Hayes, Univ. of Mississippi

Other Papers of Interest

Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I
Friday 1:30 p.m.
Session 243
Valley I 110
The Bible Translated into Early Modern Drama at Oxford
Elisabeth Dutton, Univ. de Fribourg

Hell Studies
Saturday 10:00 a.m.
Session 364
Fetzer 2040
“I drede we cannot be glad”: Sympathizing with the Rueful Devil: Messenger of Hope and Mirror of Humanity in Medieval and Elizabethan Drama
Brenda Carr, Univ. of Toronto