MRDS Annual Awards Fall 2004

MRDS Annual Awards

The 2004 David Bevington Award for the Best New Book in Early Drama Studies

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.

The 2004 Martin Stevens Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies

Alexandra F. Johnston, "The Feast of Corpus Christi in the West Country," Early Theatre 6.1 (June 2003).

MRDS ANNUAL AWARDS 2005 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society seeks nominations for its annual awards;

1. The David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies
($150 and two-year membership in MRDS)

2. The Martin Stevens Award for Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies
($100 and one-year membership in MRDS)

3. The Alexandra Johnston Award for Best New Conference Paper in Early Drama Studies by a Graduate Student
($100 and one year membership in MRDS)

Entry Information:

Deadline: January 15, 2005

Eligibility: Works by any MRDS member in good standing. Members may nominate their own works.

Judges: For each category, two MRDS Executive Council members and one non-council member of MRDS.

Submissions: For the Bevington and Stevens Awards: Any book or essay published within 18 months of the deadline. For the Johnston Award: Any conference paper delivered by a graduate student within 12 months of the deadline. Entries for the Johnston Award should not exceed 5,000 words, excluding notes, and should include the name and date of the conference at which the paper was delivered and, where appropriate, the title and sponsor of the panel.

Send one copy of each book or three copies of each essay or paper to:

Pamela Sheingorn
Ph.D. Program in Theatre
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Awards announcement and presentation will take place during the annual MRDS business meeting in May 2005 at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.

Questions about the awards: Contact Pamela Sheingorn at psheingorn@gc.cuny.edu.