Recent Publications

Books

Clifford Davidson. Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, and Ton J. Broos. Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, for Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, 2007.

Christina Fitzgerald. The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture. The New Middle Ages Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

John Fletcher. The Tamer Tamed, or The Woman’s Prize. Celia R. Daileader and Gary Taylor, Eds. Manchester: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Heather Hill-Vásquez. Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama. Washington, DC: Catholic U of America P, 2007. vii, 229 pp.

Peter Holland, Ed. Shakespeare, Memory and Performance. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Tony Howard. Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

David N. Klausner (ed. and introd.) and Karen Sawyer Marsalek (ed.). "Bring Furth the Pagants": Essays in Early English Drama Presented to Alexandra F. Johnston. Studies in Early English Drama. 9. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2007.

Barbara Palmer
"Star Turns or Small Companies?"

Peter Meredith
"'Young Men Will Do It': Fun, Disorder, and Good Government in York, 1555: Some Thoughts on House Book 21."

Sally-Beth MacLean
"The Southwest Entertains: Exeter and Local Performance Patronage."

Alan Someret
"Coming Home: Provincial Gentry Families: Their Performers, Their Great Halls, Their Entertainments, and REED."

Caroline M. Barron.
"Pageantry on London Bridge in the Early Fifteenth Century."

Meg Twycross
"The Ordo Paginarum Revisited, with a Digital Camera."

Rogerson, Margaret.
"REED York, Volume 3, the 'Revivals.'"

Garrett P. J. Epp
"Doubting Thomas: 'Womans Witnes' and the Towneley Thomas Indie."

David N. Klausner
"The Modular Structure of Wisdom."

Chester Scoville
"On Bombshells and Faulty Assumptions: What the Digby Conversion of Saint Paul Really Did with the Acts of the Apostles."

David Mills.
"Some Theological Issues in Chester's Plays."

K. Janet Ritch
"The Role of the Presenter in Medieval Drama."

Karen Sawyer Marsalek.
"'Awake Your Faith': English Resurrection Drama and The Winter's Tale."

David Bevington
"One Hell of an Ending: Staging Last Judgment in the Towneley Plays and in Doctor Faustus A and B."

Robert A. Logan. Shakespeare’s Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare’s Artistry. Aldershot, 2007.

C. Edward McGee. Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, c2006.

A. D. Nuttall. Shakespeare: The Thinker. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.

Hohn Parker. The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

Barbara Ravelhofer. The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Bryan Reynolds. Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations. Basingstoke, UK; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Virginia Scott and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen's Day: Catherine De Medicis and Pierre de Ronsard at Fontainbleau. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

Matthew Steggle. Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

Douglas Sugano and Victor Scherb. The N-Town Plays. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, for Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, 2007.

Carol Symes. A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007

Jeffrey H. Taylor and Alexandra Olsen. Four Levels of Meaning in the York Cycle of Mystery Plays: A Study in Medieval Allegory. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2006.

John Webster. The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition. Volume Three. David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Articles

Andrzej Dabr—wka, "The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages," in Medievalism in the Study of European Drama and Theatre History, ed. K. Czibula, Színházvilág ­ Világszínház (Theatre of the world - the World of theatre), R‡ci— Kiad—: Budapest 2008, pp. 23-37.

Clifford Davidson, "Symbolic Engagement in Everyman," in Text, Language and Interpretation: Essays in Honour of Keiko Ikegami, ed. Yoshiyuki Nakao et al. (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2007), 29--41.

Jœlia Demeter, "Hungarian School Theatre. A Short Survey", in Szính‡zvil‡g ­ Vil‡gszính‡z, ed. K. Czibula. R‡ci— Kiad—: Budapest 2008, pp. 38-60.

Darryll Grantley, "Morality and Interlude Drama." in A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350-c. 1500, ed. Peter Brown. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. 42. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2007, pp.473-87.

Barbara Gusick. "Christ's Healing of the Lame Man in the York Cycle's Entry into Jerusalem: Interpretive Challenges for the Newly Healed." Fifteenth-Century Studies, 31 (2006), pp. 80-105.

Derrick Higginbotham. "Impersonators in the Market: Merchants and the Premodern Nation in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 19:1 (2007 Spring), pp. 163-82.

Pamela King. "York Mystery Plays," in A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350-c. 1500. ed., Peter Brown. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. 42. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2007, pp. 491-506.

Daniel Kline. "Doing Justice to Isaac: Levinas, the Akedah, and the Brome Play of Abraham and Isaac," in Emmanuel Levinas and Medieval Literature, English and Rabbinic, ed. Ann W. Astell and Justin Jackson. Duquesne University Press

Roger A. Ladd. "'My condicion Is Mannes Soule to Kill' - Everyman's Mercantile Salvation." Comparative Drama, 41:1 (2007 Spring), pp. 57-78.

John McKinnell, "The Narrator as Everyone's Voice: A Project to Produce the Ecerinis of Albertino Mussato," in The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre, ed. Philip Butterworth. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007. xiv, pp. 93-108.

Márta Zsuzsanna PintŽr, "Les succes et problemes de l'Ždition des anciennes ouvres de thŽ‰tre hongroises," , in Szính‡zvil‡g ­ Vil‡gszính‡z, ed. K. Czibula. R‡ci— Kiad—: Budapest 2008, pp. 61-69.

Richard Rankin Russell. "The Dramatic Conversion of Nicholas Barber in Barry Unsworth's Morality Play." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 58:3 (2006 Spring), pp. 221-39.

Jill Stevenson. "The Pod Project," Theatre Journal 59.4 (2007): 656-8.

Stephen Wright, "Genres of Sanctity: Literary Representations of Archbishop Richard Scrope," in Richard Scrope: Archbishop, Rebel, Martyr, ed. Jeremy Goldberg (Donington, UK: Watkins, 2007), 114-138.

Spela Zakelj. "Dramska ironija v miraklu u moraliteti." Primerjalna Knjizevnost, 29:1 (2006 June), pp. 35-50.

Journals

Comparative Drama
Volume 41 Winter 2007-08 No. 4
http://www.wmich.edu/compdr/

Kara Northway
"I desyre to be paid": Interpreting the Language of Remuneration in Early Modern Dramatic Archives

David M. Bergeron
Wherefore Verona in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Merrall Llewelyn Price
Re-Membering the Jews: Theatrical Violence in the N-Town Marian Plays

Mark Bayer
The Merchant of Venice, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and the Perils of Shakespearean Appropriation

Robert L. Reid
Sacerdotal Vestiges in The Tempest

Early Modern Literary Studies
13.3 (January, 2008)
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls

Jennifer Clement
The Queen’s Voice: Elizabeth I’s Christian Prayers and Meditations

Jennifer Rich
The Merchant Formerly Known as Jew: Redefining the Rhetoric of Merchantry in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice

Sara Gorman
The Theatricality of Transformation: cross-dressing, sexual misdemeanour and gender/sexuality spectra on the Elizabethan stage, Bridewell Hospital Court Records, and the Repertories of the Court of the Aldermen, 1574-1607

Bradley D. Ryner
Commodity Fetishism in Richard Brome’s A Mad Couple Well Matched and its Sources

Early Theatre
11.1 (June 2008)
http://www.earlytheatre.ca/volumes.htm

Sheila K. Christie
A Crisis of Gerontocracy and the Coventry Play

Robert Tittler
Thomas Heywood and the Portrayal of Female Benefactors in Post-Reformation England

Sara Mueller
Touring, Women, and the Professional Stage

Rachel E. Poulsen
The "plentiful Lady-feast" in Brome’s A Madd Couple Well Matcht

James Doelman
Charles Fitz-Geffry and the "Wars of the Theatres" (Note)

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Vol. 20
http://inside.fdu.edu/fdupress/070819mardie.html

Forum: Race, Racism, and Performance on the Early Modern Stage

Imtiaz Habib
Racial Impersonation on the Elizabethan Stage: The Case of Shakespeare Playing Aaron

Robert Hornback
The Folly of Racism: Enslaving Blackface and the “Natural” Fool Tradition

Sujata Iyengar
Moorish Dancing in The Two Noble Kinsmen

Articles

Alison A. Chapman
Ophelia’s "Old Lauds": Madness and Hagiography in Hamlet

Beatrice Groves
"Now wole I a newe game begynne": Staging Suffering in King Lear, the Mystery Plays, and Grotius’s Christus Patiens

Frederick Kiefer
Curtains on the Shakespearean Stage

Jeremy Lopez
Imagining the Actor’s Body on the Early Modern Stage

Andrew Fleck
"Ick verstaw you niet": Performing Foreign Tongues on the Early Modern Stage

Medieval English Theatre
Volume 28 (2006)

James McBain
'By example and gode reason': Reconsidering commonplaces and the law in Fulgens and Lucres

Gordon Kipling
Le Régisseur Toujours sur les Planches: Gustave Cohen's construction of the medieval 'meneur de jeu'.

Louis Grijp
Boys and female impersonators in the Amsterdam theatre of the seventeenth century

Priscilla Bawcutt
A Note on the term morality

Subscriptions are 10 pounds (domestic and Europe) and 13 pounds (overseas). Correspondence relating to subscriptions can be sent to: Mrs Olga Horner, c/o Medieval English Theatre, English Department, Lancaster University, LANCASTER LA1 4YT, UK; E-mail: o.horner@lancaster.ac.uk.

Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama (ROMRD)
Volume VLVII, 2008

Rob Barrett
Royal Freight: City-Crown Conflict in Anthony Munday’s 1610 London’s Love to the Royal Prince Henry

Vimala Pasupathi
The King’s Privates: Sex and the Soldier’s Place in John Fletcher’s The Humorous Lieutenant (ca. 1618)

Steve Wright
Wrangling Livestock, Dragons, and Children: Practical Stagecraft and Its Thematic Consequences in the Augsburg St. George Play (c. 1486)

Kelley Costigan and Martin Wiggins
Census of Renaissance Drama Productions

Shakespeare Bulletin
Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2008
http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/ or
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_bulletin/

Lisa Dickson
"High" Art and "Low" Blows: Titus Andronicus and the Critical Language of Pain

Katherine Steele Brokaw
Ariel’s Liberty

Robert Ormsby
Coriolanus, Antitheatricalism and Audience Response

Shakespeare Quarterly
Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 2008
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=542

Paul E. J. Hammer
Shakespeare's Richard II, the Play of 7 February 1601, and the Essex Rising

Michael Neill
"Noises, Sounds, and sweet airs": The Burden of Shakespeare’s Tempest

Andrew Escobedo
From Britannia to England: Cymbeline and the Beginning of Nations

Media

The Summoning of Everyman
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~at2k/everyman.html

Director: Douglas Morse
Writer: Petrus Dorlandus
Grandfather Films. 2007