MLA Sessions Fall 2006

MLA 2006—Philadelphia

• Session 220 (MRDS)
Bridging the Divide: Medieval and Renaissance Performance and Periodization
Thursday, 28 December
1:45-3:00 p.m.
203-A, Convention Center

"Periods and Mileposts: Traveling Players and the Reformation,"
Peter Greenfield, Univ. of Puget Sound

"Professionalism, Periodization, and Performance: Shakespeare's Richard III,"
Brian Walsh, Yale Univ.

"'Sweet Poetry and Tully's Orator': Lavinia as Debased Rhetorician and Emergent Player in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus,"
Susan Harlan, New York Univ.

• Session 695 (MRDS)
Pax Christi: Christ as Peacemaker in Early Theater
Saturday, 30 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Congress A, Loews

"Christ and Human Conscience: Self-Knowledge as the Door to Wisdom in Het Spel van de V Vroede ende van de V Dwaeze Maegden,"
Mary Maxine Browne, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

"Jesus as Mary in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages,"
Susan Stakel, Univ. of Denver

"Terrors of Wholeness: The Politics of Overextension in the York Play of the Crucifixion,"
Susan M. Nakley, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

Other Sessions of Interest

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gallows: Humor, Criminality, and Spectacle in the 'J‡cara entremesada,'"
Ted Lars Lennart Bergman, California State Univ., Fresno

"Dislodging the Paratext: Understanding the 'Minor' Genres of the Golden Age,"
Leo F. Cabranes-Grant, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

"How America is Presented in Short Theatrical Genres of the Spanish Golden Age,"
Ingrid Simson, Oxford Brookes Univ.

• Session 56
Perilous Playgoing in Early Modern England
Wednesday, 27 December
7:00-8:15 p.m.
308, Philadelphia Marriott

"The Theatre as an Assassin's Bullet,"
Ellen MacKay, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

"Anxious Ingestions and Intemperate Appetites,"
Allison Hobgood, Emory Univ.

"Aping Rape,"
Holly E. Dugan, George Washington Univ.

Respondent: Jean Elizabeth Howard, Columbia Univ.

• Session 182
Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama
Thursday, 28 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Congress B, Loews

Speakers:
Laura R. Bass, Tulane Univ.
Edward H. Friedman, Vanderbilt Univ.
Mary Malcolm Gaylord, Harvard Univ.
Frederick Luciani, Colgate Univ.
Cory A. Reed, Univ. of Texas, Austin

• Session 210
Medieval Theatricality
Thursday, 28 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Commonwealth Hall A2, Loews

"John Beleth, Eudes de Sully, and Ritual Corporeality: A Case for the Spirit of Movement,"
Donnalee Dox, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

"Mystical and Grotesque Aspects of the Medieval Body in a Morality Play by Jean Gerson,"
Yelena Matusevich, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks

"Parody in Late Medieval Drama: The Ethics and Politics of Performance,"
Noah David Guynn, Univ. Of California, Davis

• Session 282
Digital Shakespeares
Thursday, 28 December
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott

"Shakespeare Film in the Age of Digital Incunabula (1984-2000),"
Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

"Cyber Shakespeare: The Impact of Non-English Sites and Archives,"
Alexander C. Y. Huang, Penn State Univ., University Park

"The Panopticon in the Playground: Shakespeare and Appropriation Online,"
Christy Desmet, Univ. Of Georgia; Sujata Iyengar, Univ. of Georgia

• Session 435
Christopher Marlowe: Text and Context
Friday, 29 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Grand Ballroom Salon L, Philadelphia Marriott

"The Sexual Politics of Editing Hero and Leander,"
Graham Lawrence Hammill, Univ. of Notre Dame

"Staging the Contradictions of Marlowe's Faustus,"
Lars Engle, Univ. of Tulsa

"The Rich Jew of London: Christopher Marlowe and Roderigo Lopez,"
Alan G. Stewart, Columbia Univ.

• Session 505
Shakespeare's Intentions
Friday, 29 December
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott

"Shakespeare and the Sources of Intent,"
Luke Andrew Wilson, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

"A Dangerous Thing: Women, Will, and Shakespeare's Sonnets,"
Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt Univ.

"Shakespeare without Blots,"
Juliet Fleming, Univ. of Cambridge

• Session 616
Re-sounding the Renaissance
Friday, 29 December
9:00-10:45 p.m.
309, Philadelphia Marriott

"Re-Creating the Sounds of Conflict: Thoughts on Performance of William Byrd's Compositional Styles,"
Christopher White, Queen's Coll., City Univ. of New York

"'Sing the Enchantment for Sleepe': Music and Bewitched Sleep in Early Modern English Drama,"
Sarah Williams, Northwestern Univ.

"Victorian Shakespeare Productions and Arthur Sullivan,"
Jeff Dailey, Five Towns Coll., NY

• Session 714
Christopher Marlowe: Myth and Biography
Saturday, 30 December
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m.
Liberty Ballroom Salon B, Philadelphia Marriott

"Marlowe, May 1593, and the 'Must Have' Theory of Biography,"
Alan Downie, Univ. of London, Goldsmiths Coll.

"Connecting the Dots: Inference and Conjecture in Marlowe Biography,"
Constance Kuriyama, Texas Tech Univ.

"Christopher Marlowe in the Shadow of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford,"
Alan H. Nelson, Univ. of California, Berkeley