Kalamazoo Sessions Spring 2003

• Session 324 (MRDS)
Mummers, Mardi Gras, and Other Visiting Maskers
Friday, 9 May, 3:30 p.m.
Fetzer 1035

"Hoglers, Lords, and Maskers: Processions and Play in Early Somerset"
James Stokes, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

"Folk Traditions and Urban Spectacle in Northern France"
Alan E. Knight, Pennsylvania State Univ.

"The Occitan BaXo: Traditional Form and Contemporary Life"
Vincent Marsicano, Univ. di Torino

"The Traditional Mummers' Play in British Political Drama: Edward Bond's The Fool (1975)/Vincent Woods' At the Black Pig's Dyke (1992)"
Martin W. Walsh, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Note from the Organizer

Moving geographically from England to France and Italy and back to England, this session will examine historical visits by roving masked players in medieval England and France, traditional Carnival processions in modern rural Italy, and represen-tations of Mummers on the political stage in modern Britain. Jim Stokes will report that "the principal form of parish entertainment" in medieval Somerset "involved small troupes (or troops), going door to door, or down public streets, to entertain, to raise money, or to punish." Alan Knight will discuss the interaction between folk traditions and urban spectacle in the processional theatre of medieval Lille. Vincent Marsicano will report on Carnival in the Occitan-speaking region of northern Italy, where the dominant festive theme remains the medieval expulsion of invading Saracens. He'll show film footage of the elaborately costumed maskers. Martin Walsh will explore the use of the Mummers Play on the modern British stage to dramatize violent class tensions and political unrest.

• Session 443 (MRDS)
Persistent Myths and Contested Ground I
Saturday, 10 May, 1:30 p.m.
Fetzer 1010

"The Myth of Everyman: Reflections on Teaching the Quintessential (?) Medieval (?) English (?) Morality (?) Play (?)"
John T. Sebastian, Cornell Univ.

"The Newly-Discovered Cornish Play of St. Kea"
David N. Klausner, Univ. of Toronto

"A Specimen for Your Analysis: Textbook Anthologies for Teaching Medieval Drama"
David Bevington, Univ. of Chicago

Note from the Organizer

It is readily evident to those who read journals and attend conferences that despite the many strides made in recent years in understanding historical drama, the world of drama at large has been slow to modify its traditional views. These two sessions are an attempt to address some of the lingering fallacies and to discuss strategies for achieving change in such publications as anthologies and histories of drama.

Session I consists of papers on teaching drama with our new understanding(s), on the problems of and choices faced in assembling (and publishing!) an anthology, and on a newly contested myth.

Session II will begin with brief presentations from four panelists on specific persistent myths and then move to a moderated roundtable discussion of the issues brought up in both sessions.

• Session 505 (MRDS)
Persistent Myths and Contested Ground Part II: A Panel Discussion
Saturday, 10 May, 3:30 p.m.
Fetzer 1010

Presider: Peter Greenfield, Univ. of Puget Sound
This session will include short presentations by Barbara D. Palmer, Mary Washington College; Alexandra F. Johnston, Univ. of Toronto; James Stokes, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; and Gordon Kipling, Univ. of California Los Angeles, on specific persistent myths in medieval and Renaissance drama. Following the presentations, Peter Greenfield will moderate a discussion among the panelists and audience.

• Session 584 (MRDS)
Drama, Liturgy, and Ceremony in the Female Monastery
Sunday, 11 May, 8:30 a.m.
Bernhard 213

"In Festo Paschali: Gender, Language, and Creative Expression in the Visitatio sepulchri from Wienhausen"
June K. Mecham, Univ. of Kansas

"Making Space: The Visitatio sepulchri in the Female Monastery"
Laura M. Weber, Columbia Univ.

"The Wise and Foolish Virgin Plays in Tuscan Convents"
Elissa B. Weaver, Univ. of Chicago

Note from the Organizer

This panel features papers by two younger scholars, June Mecham and Laura Weber, in addition to a paper by Elissa Weaver, author of the recently published Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women (Cambridge, 2002). The study of the tradition of dramatic representation in the female monastery is in its infancy and we are fortunate to be able to bring these three scholars together to hear the latest developments in this area (the unfortunate thing is the scheduling--8:30 a.m. on Sunday morning!). Their papers will cover monastic contexts in France, Germany, and Italy, attesting to the geographical diversity of nuns' dramatic practice. The papers will also cross the boundaries between liturgy and drama, considering how performance functioned in particular communities and how dramatic practice works within and against the constraints of enclosure. These papers all represent original scholarship based on recent archival work. For those interested in learning about these new areas of dramatic practice in the Middle Ages, this panel is not to be missed.

Nota Bene: There will also be papers on the Visitatio Sepulchri at Barking Abbey in the two sessions organized by the Medieval Club of New York ("Barking Abbey: The Historiography of Female Community I and II", Sessions 227 and 366, Friday and Saturday at 10 a.m.)

Kalamazoo - Other Sessions of Interest

• Session 16
Literature as Performative Art
Thursday, 8 May, 10:00 a.m.
Valley I 106

"Texts Involving Common Characters Enliven Medieval German Easter Plays"
Elizabeth I. Traverse, Independent Scholar

"Publically Constructing His Own Gender"
M. C. Bodden, Marquette Univ.

• Session 21
Shakespeare, Politics, and Economics
Thursday, 8 May, 10:00 a.m.
Valley I Shilling Lounge

"Usury as the Bogey of Exchange: Luther, Bacon, and The Merchant of Venice"
Barbara Correll, Cornell Univ.

"Parti-Colored Eanlings: The Taint of Jewish Transnationality in The Merchant of Venice"
Jonathan Gil Harris, Ithaca College

"Othello and the Myth of the Original"
Elizabeth Williamson, Univ. of Pennsylvania

• Session 44
The Medieval Village I: Can We Discover a Distictive Rural Culture?
Thursday, 8 May, 10:00 a.m.
Bernhard 204

"Shakespeare and the 'Common Sort'"
Edwin B. DeWindt, Univ. of Detroit Mercy

"Medieval Rituals: Performance in the Village Court"
Sherri Olson, Univ. of Connecticut

"Gender and Illicit Speech in the Manor Courts"
Sandy Bardsley, Emory and Henry College

• Session 49
Art and Culture of Valois Burgundy
Thursday, 8 May, 10:00 a.m.
Bernhard 211

"Entries, Performance, and Art: The Influence of Art on the Burgundian Mime Stage"
Jesse Hurlbut, Brigham Young Univ.

"The Cartographic Vision of Jan Van Eyck"
Lisa Deam, Valparaiso Univ.

"The Function of Funerals at the Valois Court"
Renate Prochno, Univ. Salzburg

• Session 70
Archival and Research Resources in Britain for Medievalists (A Panel Discussion)
Thursday, 8 May, 1:30 p.m.
Valley II Garneau Lounge

"Local and Ecclesiastical Archives"
Katherine L. French, SUNY-New Paltz

"National and London Archives"
Barbara A. Hanawalt, Ohio State Univ.

"Records for Drama, Especially in Wales"
David N. Klausner, Univ. of Toronto

• Session 81
Shakespeare, Gender, and Sexuality
Thursday, 8 May, 1:30 p.m.
Valley I Shilling Lounge

"Shakespeare's Jealous Zealots: Deviant Descendants of a Medieval Tradition"
Beth Charlebois, St. Mary's College of Maryland

"Virgilia's 'Gracious Silence' and Her Strength in Coriolanus"
Michelle Ruggaber, Marquette Univ.

"A Tale of Two Helens: Syphilis, Healing, and Female Embodiment in Troilus and Cressida and All's Well That Ends Well"
Melissa Smith, McMaster Univ.

• Session 88
Text and Context of Representation: Music, Literature, and Dramatic Theories in the English Renaissance
Thursday, 8 May, 1:30 p.m.
Fetzer 1060

"Race, Spectacle, and Colonial Discourses in Jacobean Masques"
I-Chun Wang, National Sun Yat-sen Univ.

"Paratextual Typologies in Reformation Contexts"
Vivienne Westbrook, National Taiwan Univ.

"'We Sing Not to Brute Beasts, but Human Men': Affect and Epideictic in John Coprario's Funeral Teares for the Right Honorable the Earle of Devonshire"
David M. Schiller, Univ. of Georgia

"The Development of Keyboard Idiom in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book"
Mei-Wen Lee, National Sun Yat-sen Univ.

• Session 92
"To the Court and Back Again": The Monarchical Traditions of Medieval Communities
Thursday, 8 May, 1:30 p.m.
Schneider 1140

"(Re)Moving the King: Ideals of Civic Order in Jacobus de Cessolis's Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium"
Jenny Adams, Univ. of North Texas

"Genealogy as Politics: The Florentine Origins of the FitzGeralds"
James Muldoon, Brown Univ.

"Royal Genealogies away from the Court: Bernard Gui's Arbor genealogie regum francorum"
Joan A. Holladay, Univ. of Texas-Austin

"The Entry of Queen Isabella: Froissart's Accounts in Poetry and Prose"
Kristen M. Figg, Kent State Univ.-Salem

• Session 170
Medieval Archaeology, New Light on Old Problems II: Ritual
Thursday, 8 May, 3:30 p.m.
Bernhard 212

"Burial Practices in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Some European Colonies"
Emily Weglian, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

"The Origins of Insular Spring Worship"
Silas Mallery, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

"Toward an Archaeology of Ritual: Cloister and Refectory at the Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons"
Sheila Bonde, Brown Univ., and Clark Maines, Wesleyan Univ.

• EVENING EVENT
Comic Violence: Readers' Theater Performance of the Towneley Mactacio Abel and Processus Noe
Thursday, 8 May, 8:00 p.m.
Fetzer 2020

A readers' theater performance with Warren Edminster, Murray State Univ.; Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.; Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson Univ.; Susan Yager, Iowa State Univ.; Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State Univ.; and Alan T. Gaylord, Dartmouth College.

• Session 227
Barking Abbey: The Historiography of Female Community I
Friday, 9 May, 10:00 a.m.
Sangren 2205

"Wulfruna of Barking and the Late Saxon Cult of St. Ethelburga"
Lisa Weston, California State Univ.-Fresno

"Beauty and the Beast: St. Wulfhilda, King Edgar, and the Resurrection of Barking Abbey"
Kay Slocum, Capital Univ.

"The Abbess Directs: Nuns, Priests, and the Resurrected Body in the Easter Plays of Barking"
Margaret Aziza Pappano, Columbia Univ.

• Session 236
Boundaries and Alterity in the Middle Ages II: Sainthood and Performance
Friday, 9 May, 10:00 a.m.
Sangren 3105

"Performance of the Liturgy in French Medieval Lives of the Saints"
Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.

"'Playing the Martyr': The Sixteenth-Century Conversion of St. Paul as a Guide for the Twenty-First-Century Actor"
James B. Harr III, Univ. of Leeds

• Session 251
Editing Medieval Drama: Goals, Scope and Methodology (A Roundtable)
Friday, 9 May, 1:30 p.m.
Valley I 100

Presider: Russell A. Peck, Univ. of Rochester

A roundtable discussion with Victor Scherb, Univ. of Texas-Tyler, and Douglas Sugano, Whitworth College (N-Town Cycle); Chet Scoville, Univ. of Toronto-Mississauga, and Kimberley Yates, University of Toronto-Mississauga (York Cycle); Garrett P. J. Epp, Univ. of Alberta (Townley Cycle); Richard K. Emmerson, Medieval Academy of America (Chester Cycle and Middle English Text Series Advisory Board); Kathleen Askley, Univ. of Southern Maine (Mankind); Theresa Coletti, Univ. of Maryland (Digby Play of Mary Magdalene and Middle English Text Series Advisory Board); Clifford Davidson, Western Michigan Univ. (Everyman in English and Dutch and Middle English Text Series Advisory Board); Gerard NeCastro, University of Maine-Machias (Early Tudor Marriage Plays: Taming of a Shrew, Patient Grissel, Tom Tyler and His Wife, Johan Johan, and How a Man May Tell a Good Wife from a Bad); Karen Sawyer, St. Olaf College (Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister); Alexandra F. Johnston, Univ. of Toronto (Middle English Text Series Advisory Board); and Jeremy Du Q. Adams, Southern Methodist Univ.

• Session 332
Drama
Friday, 9 May, 3:30 p.m.
Schneider 1325

"'My Countinge-Boke I Wolde Make So Clere': Capitalist Contrition in Everyman"
Diane DeLauro, Rutgers Univ.

"So What If the Wakefield Cycle Is neither from Wakefield nor a Cycle?"
Warren Edminster, Murray State Univ.

"Bodying Forth Theology: Phenomenologies of Bodily Resurrection in the Play of the Last Judgment"
M. Rick Smith, Kent State Univ.-Trumbull

"Christ's Bleeding Robe: The Affective Power of Christ's "Woundes Wryngyng-Wete" in the English Cycle Plays and Late Medieval Lullabies"
Joanna Kazik, Univ. L—dzki

• Session 366
Barking Abbey: The Historiography of Female Community II
Saturday, 10 May, 10:00 a.m.
Valley III 307

"Clemence and the Angevins: The Political Contract of Clemence of Barking's Vie de sainte Catherine"
Diane Peters Auslander, Graduate Center, CUNY

"Crafting Liturgy and Articulating Theology: The Barking Abbey Easter Dramas"
Jill Stevenson, Graduate Center, CUNY

"The Charge to the Barking Cellaress: Keeping Body and Soul Together"
Alexandra Barratt, Univ. of Waikato

• Session 370
Late Medieval French Language and Literature II
Saturday, 10 May, 10:00 a.m.
Valley III Fox Lounge

"The Quarrel over La Belle Dame sans merci: Condemnation and/or Antifeminism?"
William Calin, Univ. of Florida

"The Logic of Gestures in French Late Medieval Drama and Art: The Passion Isabeau"
Edelgard E. DuBruck, Marygrove College

"Meaningful, but Pointless: Dreams in René d'Anjou's Livre du cuer d'amours espris"
Monty Laycox, Univ. of Georgia

• Session 375
Biblical Interpretation and/in Early English Drama
Saturday, 10 May, 10:00 a.m.
Valley I 102

"Thomas Garter, the Virtuous Susanna, and the Abuse of Language"
Jon Terry Wade, Peregrina Publishing

"Dogberry's Inscrutable Grace: Reformist 'Propisms' and Renaissance Malapropism"
Jack Heller, Huntington College

"'Christ Never Sent Hys to Shewe Sygnyficacyons': Ekphrastic Fear in the Authoritative Narratives of John Bale"
Charlotte Pressler, South Florida Community College

• Session 376
Early Middle English Literature
Saturday, 10 May, 10:00 a.m.
Valley I 105

"Animal Imagery and Oral Discourse in Havelok the Dane"
Scott Kleinman, California State Univ.-Northridge

"Reading-as-Worship: Structural Possibilities for Multiple Readings in the Katherine Group Passiones"
Mary Beth Long, Univ. of Massachusetts

"Just How Dirty Is the Body? Approaches to Carnality and Incarnation"
Emily Rebekah Huber, Univ. of Rochester

"The Eucharist and the Pater noster: Early Drama's Missing Link?"
Warren S. Moore III, Ball State Univ.

• Session 384
Scholarly Performances from the Early Comic Repertory
Saturday, 10 May, 10:00 a.m.
Fetzer 1010

Presider: Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ.
Performance by Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.; Yvonne Le Blanc, The Hill School; Mark Cruse, New York Univ.; Kevin J. Ruth, Rutgers Univ./Tower Hill School; and Julie Human, Univ. of Kentucky.

• Session 484
Representations of Evil in Early Drama
Saturday, 10 May, 1:30 p.m.
Sangren 3309

"The Mistère du siège d'Orléans's English Devils"
Vicki Hamblin, Western Washington Univ.

"The Devil in the Details: Worldly-Wise Devils in a Sixteenth-Century Polish Resurrection Play"
Rob Sulewski, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

"'My Condicion Is Mannes Soule to Kill': Everyman Mercantile Salvation"
Roger A. Ladd, Univ. of South Alabama

• Session 543
Medicine as Metaphor
Saturday, 10 May, 3:30 p.m.
Sangren 3217

"The Depression of Boethius: Symptoms and Therapy in The Consolation of Philosophy"
J. J. Garber, Independent Scholar

"Surgery as Salvation in the Siege of Jerusalem"
Jeremy Citrome, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

"Worms, Mors, and a Touch of Gout: Didactic Disease on Stage"
Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby, Centenary College

• Session 546
Early Asian Theater: Japanese Noh and More
Saturday, 10 May, 3:30 p.m.
Sangren 3309

"A Dramatic Comparison: Kanze Kiyotsugu Kan' Ami's Motomezuka, 'The Sought-For Grave,' and the Old English The Wife's Lament"
Raymond P. Tripp Jr., Univ. of Denver

"Medea: A Noh Cycle"
Loren Edelson, CUNY

• Session 602
Early Tudor
Sunday, 11 May, 10:30 a.m.
Valley I 110

"Stephen Hawes: A Pastime of Pleasure?"
Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY-Fredonia

"The Poet in the Poem: The Case of Alexander Barclay"
Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Univ. of Notre Dame

"Foreign Visitations: The Simple Masks of Henry VIII"
Denise E. Cole, Central Michigan Univ.