International Congress - Kalamazoo 1998

Session 197 (MRDS)
Medieval and/or Renaissance? The Range of Dramatic Activity in England in the 1560's(Panel Discussion)
Friday, 8 May 10:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
Schneider Room 1135

"Performative Continuity amidst Religious Change: The Far West of England in the 1560's,"
Gloria Betcher, Iowa State Univ.

"Persistence of Medieval Performance in the 1560's,"
Lawrence Clopper, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington

"Selling the Settlement: Patronized Players on the Road?,"
Alexandra Johnston, Univ. of Toronto

"Continuity and Innovation in Three 'Wit' Plays"
Janet Knepper, Univ. of Pennsylvania

"Priests and Boys: Gender Regulation, the Vestiarian Controversy, and Dramatic Activity in the 1560's,"
Margaret Pappano, Columbia Univ.

"Thomas Garter, the Virtuous Susanna, and the Abuse of Language,"
Jon Terry Wade, Univ. of Toronto

Session 245 (MRDS)
Boys' Drama in the Renaissance
Friday, 8 May 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Schneider Room 1135

"The Political Radicalism of Tudor School Drama,"
Paul Whitfield White, Purdue Univ.

"Elissa and Eliza: Marlow's Dido and Elizabethan Dramas of Empire,"
Donald Stump, Saint Louis Univ.

"Marlowe and the Children of Pauls,"
Stephen Guy-Bray, Univ. of British Columbia

Session 293 (MRDS)
Before Hollywood: Pyrotechnics and Spectacular Effects in Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Friday 8 May 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Schneider Room 1135

"Heaven's Blessing and Earth's Joy: Pyrotechnic Celebrations To Mark the Marriage of Frederick and Elizabeth, London, 1613,"
Philip Butterworth, Univ. of Leeds

"Staging the Virgin's Body: Spectacular Effects of Annunciation and Assumption,"
Barbara Palmer, Mary Washington College

"Great Balls of Fire: Pyrotechnic Theatre during the Visit of Philip II of Spain to Trent, 1549,"
Max Harris, Wisconsin Humanities Council

OTHER SESSIONS OF INTEREST

Session 90
Drama at Klosterneuburg
Thursday, 7 May 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Schneider Room 1125
Sponsor: Early Drama, Art, and Music

"Performing Liturgical Drama at Klosterneuburg: A Demonstration Performance,"
Michael L. Norton, Harrisonburg, VA and Amelia J. Carr, Allegheny College

Session 106
Musicology II: Music, Art, and Entertainment
Thursday, 7 May 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Bernhard Center, Brown & Gold Room

"Dufay in Florence: Architecture, Humanism, and Two Motets,"
Beverlee Sian Rapp, Univ. of Toronto

"Garden Games and Songs: Aristocratic Entertainment in the Cinquecente,"
Cathy Ann Elias, Univ. of Chicago

"Robert Johnson's Integral Role in English Renaissance Theater,"
Catherine A. Henze, Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Session 143
Violence in Medieval Drama
Thursday, 7 May 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Schneider Room 1125
Sponsor: Early Drama, Art, and Music

"Verbal Violence against Christ in the French Passion Plays,"
Véronique Plesch, Colby College

"English Medieval Drama and the Historical Origins of Violence,"
Clifford Davidson, Western Michigan Univ.

Respondent: Barbara Palmer, Mary Washington College

Session 153
Sacred Spaces in Late Medieval Literary and Dramatic Texts
Thursday, 7 May 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Bernhard Center Room 208

"Time Apart: Dramatic Sacred Spaces,"
Patrice C. Ross, Columbus State Community College

"The Building of an Ironic Temple: An Architectural Critique of the Roman de la Rose,"
Rachel Anderson, Indiana Univ. Bloomington

"Ruined City or Sacred Site? Paris in the Works of François Villon and Jean Fouquet,"
Mark Cruse, New York Univ.

"Sanctifying Space, Sanctifying Work: Spiritual Profit in the York Cycle,"
Heather Hill-Vasquez, Whitworth College

Session 194
Staging Hrotsvit in the Classroom
Friday, 8 May 10:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
Schneider Room 1120

"Staging Hrotsvit in the Classroom: An Approach to Dulcitius,"
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar, Brigham Young Univ.

"Staging Hrotsvit in the Chaucer Classroom,"
Elisabeth Ann Witt, Allentown College

"How Would Hrotsvit Direct Her Plays? Performing Hrotsvit in a Medieval History Class,"
Jay Lees, Univ. of North Iowa

Session 204
Shakespeare in the Tradition of the Performing Arts
Friday, 8 May 10:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
Bernhard Center Room 204

"'It Is Required You Do Awake Your Faith': Elements of the Stuart Court Masque in Shakespeare's Late Plays,"
Michelle Haslem, University College Chester

"Contemplating the Heavens and Hells at the New Globe Theatre, Bankside,"
Elizabeth Truax, Chapman University

"The Medieval Heritage of Shakespeare's Children,"
Travis D. Williams, New College, Oxford

Session 252
Shakespeare and Cultural Continuity
Friday, 8 May 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Bernhard Center Room 204

"'No Innocent Milk': Fear of Female Agency in The Winter's Tale,"
Donna Woodford, Washington Univ.

"The Persecution of Hope: Lotteries and Time in The Merchant of Venice,"
Eric C. Brown, Louisiana State Univ.

"'What You Have Been Ere This, and What You Are': Nobility, Knowledge, and the Stains of Memory in Richard III,"
John Hunter, Univ. of Toronto

Session 304
Medieval Drama
Saturday, 9 May 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Valley III Room 300

"Appendix and Apologetics in The Resurrection of Our Lord,"
Karen Sawyer, Univ. of Toronto

"Contrition, Confession, and Everyman,"
Karen T. Wagner, Pikes Peak Community College

"Words and Flesh: Verbal Theatricalization in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages,"
Gretchen V. Angelo, California State Univ.

Session 328
French Farce in Action: Performances from the Early Comic Repertory
Saturday, 9 May 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Fetzer Room 1010

Performed by Yvonne LeBlanc, Culinary Institute of America; Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ.; Donald Perret, Emerson College; and Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.

Session 356
The York Cycle in Performance, Then and Now: An Open Forum
Saturday, 9 May 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Valley III Room 300
Sponsor: Poculi Ludique Societas

This is an open forum in which the politics, aesthetics, and history of twentieth-century productions of the York Cycle will be discussed. This forum anticipates the two historic, processional performances of the cycle (in York and in Toronto) to take place this summer.

Sessions 369 & 423
Medieval Drama, Latin, and the Vernacular: Texts and Databases I and II: A Hands-on Workshop
Saturday, 9 May 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, 9 May 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Waldo Library Room 1070
Electronic Classroom

This session will demonstrate the electronic databases CLCLT (the CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts) and The Records of Early English Drama and allow participants to conduct searches on each, using a cluster of PC terminals. Participants will be assisted and supervised by the presenters and organizers.

Presentation will be led by Simon Forte and Alex Moseley, Univ. of Leicester. Demonstrations will involve CLCLT, The Records of Early English Drama, and four additional databases

Session 410
Games and Plays in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Saturday, 9 May 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Valley III Room 300

"The Practice and Enjoyment of Card Playing: On the Ludus cartularum moralisatus by Johannes of Rheinfelden,"
Arne Jönsson, Lund Univ.

"La moral de Sapience: An Unpublished Morality Play of the Puy des Palinods,"
Jay E. Moore, Hampton Univ.

"Diseas'd Opinions and Cunning Artificers: The Problem of Poison on the Early Modern Stage,"
Miranda Wilson, Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Session 455
European Confraternities: Theatrics
Saturday, 9 May 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Schneider Room 1225

"Violence in the Theatre of Italian Confraternities,"
Konrad Eisenbichler, Univ. of Toronto

"Vested Virgins: The Clothing of Confraternity Sculptures in Early Modern Seville,"
Susan Webster, Univ. of St. Thomas

Session 532
Drama, Text, and Music
Sunday, 10 May 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Schneider Room 1220

"Adam de la Halle and the Robin and Marion Tradition in Thirteenth-Century Arras,"
Matthew Steel, Western Michigan Univ.

"Peasants Embellish Both German Vernacular Easter Plays and Niedhart's Songs,"
Elizabeth I. Traverse, Huntingdon, PA

"Text-Music Relationships/Manuscript Currency and Transmission,"
Rebekah Ahrendt, San Jose State Univ.

Recent Publications

Michael Best, ed. "The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium," Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 2, January, 1998 (electronic journal)
http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html

MICHAEL BEST
Foreword

PAUL WERSTINE
Hypertext and Editorial Myth

ANNE LANCASHIRE
What Do the Users Really Want?

IAN LANCASHIRE
The Common Reader's Shakespeare

DONALD FOSTER
A Romance of Electronic Scholarship; with the True and Lamentable Tragedies of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Part 1: The Words

R.G. SIEMENS
Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise: Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic Medium, with Reference to Electronic Editions of Shakespeare and the Internet

MICHAEL BEST
Afterword: Dressing Old Words New

JEAN MACINTYRE
Additional to "Production Resources at the Whitefriars Playhouse, 1609-1612" (EMLS 2.3 [December, 1996]: 2.1-35)

Readers' Forum:
Responses to articles, reviews, and notes appearing in this issue that are intended for the Readers' Forum may be sent to the Editor at EMLS@UAlberta.ca.

Jean-Pierre Bordier. Le Jeu de la Passion : le Message chrétien et le théâtre français (XIIIe-XVIe s.). Paris : Champion, 1998, 863 pp.

Elisabeth Caron, "Les Passions du bas moyen âge français", Le Moyen Français 38 (1998) 125-138.

Comparative Drama
Spring 1998 (vol, 32, no. 1),
Special Issue Edited by Grace Tiffany

KRISTEN ELIZABETH POOLE
Garbled Martyrdom in Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris

DAVID BEVINGTON
Lyly's Endymion and Midas: The Catholic Question in England

R. CHRIS HASSEL, JR.
Painted Women: Annunciation Motifs in Hamlet

JOHN D. COX
Stage Devils in English Reformation Plays

ALZADA J. TIPTON
"The meanest man . . . shall be permitted freely to accuse": The Commoners in Woodstock

DAWN MASSEY
Veritas filia Temporis: Apocalyptic Polemics in the Drama of the English Reformation

MAURICE HUNT
The Hybrid Reformations of Shakespeare's Second Henriad

This issue of Comparative Drama is also available to non-subscribers as a paperback book entitled Reformations: Religion, Rulership, and the Sixteenth-Century English Stage

(order from Medieval Institute Publications,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008)

Audrey Ekdahl Davidson and Clifford Davidson, Performing Medieval Music-Drama. Society for Old Music. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998.

A scholarly record of presentations of a dozen medieval music-dramas between 1968 and 1990.

John Drakakis and Naomi Conn Liebler, eds. Tragedy. Longmans Critical Readers Series. London and New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.

An edited collection of theoretical approaches to the genre of Tragedy from Hegel and Nietzsche to Artaud, Boal, Soyinka, and Derrida, including sections on "ritual and tragedy" and "feminism and tragedy."

Early Drama, Art, and Music Review
Spring 1998 (vol. 20, no. 2)

BENGT STOLT
Medieval Religious Drama in Sweden: The Physical Evidence

PETER HAPPE
The English Cycle Plays: Contexts and Development

JONATHAN WARMAN
Review of the performance of Herod and the Innocents by the Early Music Ensemble, New York City

EDAM web page: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/edam/

Renee Gimenez, ed. L'Hystoyre de
Saincte Susanne par personnaiges, Editions CERES, Inedita et Rara 14, Montreal, 1998.

Isabelle Martin. "La Guerre des Théâtres à Paris (XVIe - XVIIIe)", Revue d'Histoire du Theatre 49 (1997): 345-55; includes observations on the history of the Confrérie de la Passion after the edict of 1548.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (volume 10).

SCOTT LUCAS
Conspiracy and Court Revels: Were the 1551-52 Christmas Revels a Plot against Protector Somerset?

MICHAEL LESLIE
"Something Nasty in the Wilderness": Entertaining Queen Elizabeth on Her Progresses

MICHAEL NEILL
"This Gentle Gentleman": Social Change and the Language of Status in Arden of Faversham

S. P. CERASANO
Edward Alleyn's "Retirement" 1597-1600

JOHN PITCHER
Samuel Daniel and the Authorities

MARY BLY
License Taken: Borrowed Prurience and the First Whitefriars Company

DANIELLE CLARKE
"This domestic kingdome or Monarchy": Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam and the Resistance to Patriarchal Government

RICHARD A. LEVIN
The Dark Color of a Cardinal's Discontentment: The Political Plot of Women Beware Women

TIMOTHY RAYLOR
The Design and Authorship of The Essex House Masque (1621)

JUNE SCHLUETER
English Actors in Kassel, Germany, during Shakespeare's Time

HERBERT BERRY
Folger MS V.b.275 and the Deaths of Shakespearean Playhouses

Graham Runnalls. Études sur les Mystères. Paris: Champion, 1998. Collected essays.

James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens. London: Boydell and Brewer, 1998.

The essays in this tribute volume represent a mix of traditional commentary and approaches enabled by anthropology, semiotics, new historicism, and feminism, a mix which promises a unified and synthetic treatment of Chaucer and the late Middle English drama.

KATHLEEN M. ASHLEY
Sponsorship, Reflexivity and Resistance: A Cultural Reading of the York Cycle Plays

RICHARD EMMERSON
Eliding the 'Medieval': Renaissance 'New Historicism' and Sixteenth-Century Cycle Plays

MARLENE CLARK, SHARON KRAUS AND PAMELA SHEINGORN
'Se in what stat thou doyst indwell': The Shifting Constructions of Gender and Power Relations in Wisdom

SETH LERER
The Chaucerian Critique of Medieval Theatricality

JOHN M. GANIM
The Experience of Modernity in Late Medieval Literature: Urbanism, Experience and Rhetoric in Some Early Descriptions of London

ALFRED DAVID
Noah's Wife's Flood

FICHARD J. DANIELS
Textual Pleasure in The Miller's Tale

WARREN GINSBERG
Petrarch, Chaucer and the Making of the Clerk

ROBERT W. HANNING
The Crisis of Mediation in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

PETER W. TRAVIS
Reading Chaucer Ab Ovo: Mock-Exemplum in the Nun's Priest's Tale

WILLIAM MCCLELLAN
A Postmodern Performance: Counter-Reading Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and Maxine hong Kingston's No Name Woman

Theatre, Opera, Ballet 1996 (vol. 2)

JARMILA VELTRUSKY
Chants, Paroles et Jeux de scène dans le Jeu d'Adam (pp. 5-76).

GEORGES-PHILIPPE DANAN
Le modèle spatio-temporel du théâtre médiéval français et ses adaptations contemporaines (pp. 77-94).

Editions Klincksieck
8 rue de la Sorbonne
Paris 75005

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW JOURNAL
Early Theatre: A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama will appear annually beginning in the fall of 1998. Early Theatre is a peer- reviewed journal with a nine-member international editorial board. The first volume will contain articles and notes on a variety of cultural and theatrical concerns, such as:

JOHN J. MCGAVIN on early Scottish attitudes to plays and performance in "The Kirk, the Burgh, and Fun"

ROBERT TITTLER on new biographical material concerning "Henry Hardware

of Chester and the Face of Puritan Reform"

W. R. STREITBERGER on household and court preparations involved in "Devising the Revels"

DAVID MILLS on travelling players in Chester

JAMES STOKES on the waits in Lincolnshire

DOMINICK GRACE on the apothecary scene in Romeo and Juliet

For the first issue, several scholars, including Barbara Palmer, David Bevington, Garrett Epp, Peter Meredith, David Mills, and Ralph Blasting will participate in a forum reviewing the York Cycle in performance, in Toronto (June) and in the city of York (July), with comments on various aspects of staging, special effects, and treatment of text.

We are now accepting articles and notes for Volume 2 (1999). Requests for the ET style sheet may be addressed to the editor at ostovich@mcmaster.ca

and submissions may be sent to:

Helen Ostovich, Editor
Early Theatre
Department of English
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L9
Canada

Early European Drama Translation Series

There are two new volumes coming out in the next couple of months:

Volume 2: Medieval Dutch Drama: Four Secular Plays and Four Farces from the Van Hulthem Manuscript, translated by Johanna C. Prins

Volume 3: Antichrist and Judgment Day: The Middle French "Jour du Jugement", translated by David Hult and Richard K. Emmerson, with a note on the music by Keith Glaeske

There are still copies of Volume 1 available as well: Arnoul Greban, Mystery of the Passion: The Third Day, translated by Paula Giuliano.

More information available on the EEDT web page: http://www.cua.edu/www/eng/eedt.htm

Upcoming Academic Meetings and Opportunities

THE ARTIST IN AN AGE OF IMPERIAL CULTURE: CAREERS IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

University Park, Pennsylvania

June 1-24, 1998

The Artist in an Age of Imperial Culture: Careers in the Early Modern Period will offer an introduction to this neglected topic in English and European humanities curricula, focusing primarily on literary careers and secondarily on the careers of visual artists. By highlighting the figure of the artist shaping a career amid the constraints of imperial culture, the institute will form the first attempt to establish a baseline on which future work may proceed.

The institute will be open to fifteen qualified participants. Each participant must be either a faculty member at an accredited college or university, or a graduate student from an accredited college or university attending the institute with a faculty mentor. All participants must hold at least a master of arts degree or its equivalent.

The institute seeks to attract a wide audience, including (1) teachers and scholars of the early modern period who want to learn of current trends and research possibilities in this area; (2) specialists in classics, art history, history, Italian, French, Spanish, and English, as well as other languages, who wish to study texts from their respective disciplines and who then wish to broaden their study through a comparative and interdisciplinary framework; (3) teachers of the humanities who wish to incorporate the topic of English and European careers in their courses; (4) teachers in other periods-such as medieval or eighteenth-century-who wish to understand the historical tradition that the institute will examine.

http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/LiteraryCareers/

To receive a brochure with registration materials, nationwide, call 1-800-778-8632 or send an e-mail with your name, address, phone number, fax number, and Internet address to ConferenceInfo1@cde.psu.edu.

SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONAL POUR L'ÉTUDE DU THÉÂTRE MÉDIÉVAL
Ninth International Colloquium
Odense, Denmark
August 3-9, 1998

The conference will take place on the University campus, on the southern outskirts of Odense. A total of 76 papers have been accepted for the Colloquium, to be presented in 19 sessions devoted to the topics of Easter Plays, Farces and Farcical Elements (including stock characters and stereotypes), Martyrdom and Saints' Plays, Audience and Reception. The complete program, including summaries of the papers can be found on the conference web site.

www.ou.dk/Hum/MidLab/Theatre/Theatre.html

Organizing Committee, SITM98
Centre for Medieval studies
Odense University
Campusvej 55
5230 Odense M
Denmark
FAX: +45 65 93 24 83
E-mail: SITM98@litcul.ou.dk

Annual Conference of the TEXAS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
September 17-19, 1998

CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposal Deadline: JULY 15, 1998

Papers on all medieval topics are welcome. Please submit session and paper abstracts (150-300 words) to:
Don Kagay
2812-A Westgate
Albany, GA 31705
or by e-mail to Edwin Duncan at
eduncan@towson.edu

http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/tmahome.html

"VIOLENCE IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY"
University of Toronto
October 24, 1998
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline June 8, 1998

The 1998 Centre for Medieval Studies Annual Conference endeavours to gather scholars interested in the enactment, control, and representation of violence in the Middle Ages. Violence was often used to contest status, to subvert or affirm social and political hierarchies, as well as to entertain or to edify.

We welcome proposals for papers from any discipline, including but not limited to: history, art history, literature, religion, philosophy, theology, liturgy, and drama. Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words (typed, double-spaced) by June 8, 1998 to:

Chair, Centre for Medieval Studies
39 Queen's Park Crescent East
Toronto, Ontario M5s 2c3
Canada
cms-conf@chass.utoronto.ca

LE PASSÉ COMME MIROIR POUR LE PRÉSENT: LE DRAME HISTORIQUE ET MYTHOLOGIQUE DANS LES SIÈCLES XVI ET XVII ESPAGNOL ET FRANÇAIS
University of Groningen, Netherlands
November 26-27, 1998
Dr Rina Walthaus
Departement de Langues et Cultures Romanes,
Faculté de Lettres, Université de Groningue
B.P. 716
9700 Groningen
The Netherlands

rtctheat@let.rug.nl
http://odur.let.rug.nl/events/98/drame/

MARKETPLACE AND SOCIETY:

INTERSECTIONS OF THE ECONOMIC SPHERE WITH POLITICS, RELIGION, AND CULTURE
Barnard College, New York
December 5, 1998
The Sixteenth Barnard College Medieval and Renaissance Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposal Deadline: MAY 15, 1998

Possible topics include: literary production; architecture and the plastic arts; university culture; religious life; patronage and court society; marriage and sexuality; social organization; political institutions and policies

Please submit abstracts (150-300 words) and c.v. to:
Joel Kaye
Department of History, Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Fax: (212) 854-3024
JKaye@Barnard.Columbia.edu

MATERIAL CULTURE AND CULTURAL MATERIALISMS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE
Tempe, Arizona
February 18­20, 1999
CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS
Deadline: October 1, 1998

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University invites session and paper proposals for its fifth annual interdisciplinary conference. The Center welcomes papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the

Middle Ages and Renaissance and especially those that focus on this year's theme of material culture. The latter may address, for example, specific artifacts and artistic commodities or the relationship between people's material world and the society around them.

Send two copies of session proposals or one-page abstracts, along with two copies of your current c.v. and the audio visual request form (available on the web site), to
Robert E. Bjork, Director
ACMRS
Arizona State University
Box 872301
Tempe, AZ 85287­2301

Email: acmrs@asu.edu
Phone: (602) 965­5900
Fax: (602) 965­1681
http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs

SHAKESPEARE AT KALAMAZOO
SESSION 1: "RITUAL AND THE IMAGERY OF POWER IN MEDIEVAL AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA"
SESSION 2: "STORIES OF THE BODY: MEDIEVAL AND SHAKESPEAREAN EMBODIMENTS"
Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 5-9, 1999
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: September 15, 1998

Send three copies of abstracts, or, preferably, completed papers to:
Debbie Barrett-Graves
Humanities Department
The College of Santa Fe
1600 St. Michael's Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87505

Fax: (505) 473-5642
debarre@ibm.net

"PREMIÈRE POÉSIE FRANÇAISE DE LA RENAISSANCE. AUTOUR DES PUYS POÉTIQUES NORMANDS 1480-1550" An International Colloquium
September 30 to October 2, 1999
Université de Rouen, France
One of the suggested topics is:
"Les Puys et le théâtre (Moralités, Mystères et Miracles, Entrées de Ville)"

For more information, contact:
Jean-Claude Arnould
10 rue du Vertbois
75003, Paris.

ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE ENDOWMENT FUND. SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLICATION OF MANU-SCRIPTS IN ITALIAN LITERARY STUDIES

Deadline: September 1, 1998

During 1998 the Modern Language Association will receive applications for support from the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Endowment Fund for the publication of original scholarly manuscripts dealing with any aspect of the languages and literatures of Italy, including medieval Latin. Manuscripts are eligible only if they have been accepted for publication by a not-for-profit press that is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Applications should be sent to the MLA by the publishers. Authors must be members of the Modern Language Association and must currently reside in the United States or Canada. Applications will be evaluated by a panel of scholars appointed by the MLA Committee on Honors and Awards. Prospective applicants are urged to consult the program administrator by telephone or e-mail and obtain a set of guidelines before shipping manuscripts to the MLA office. In addition to information about the applicant and the work, publishers will be asked to provide copies of readers' reports on the book. The deadline for the 1998 competition is 1 September; applicants will be notified of results before the end of November. To receive a copy of the guidelines, write or call:

Richard Brod
Director of Special Projects, MLA
10 Astor Place
New York, NY 10003-6981

Tel. (212) 614-6406
awards@mla.org

Performances

ACTER
Fall 1998 tour: The Tempest

Sept. 15-20 UNC-Chapel Hill
Sept 21-27 University of Memphis, TN
Sept 28 - Oct 4 Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Oct 5-11 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Oct 12-18 Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Oct 19-25 UTSA -- San Antonio, TX
Oct 26 - Nov1 Pomona College, Claremont CA
Nov 2-8 Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
Nov 9-15 UNC-Chapel Hill
Nov 16-18 Fayetteville Academy, NC

Cynthia Dessen, General Manager, ACTER
1100 Willow Drive
Chapel Hill NC 27514

919-967-4265 (phone/fax)
csdessen@email.unc.edu
http://www.unc.edu/depts/acter/

Shenandoah Shakespeare Express

Tenth Anniversary Over the Hump Tour:
Richard III, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew

The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express is committed to performing The Bard's works in true Elizabethan Style--on a bare stage, surrounded by audience members who share the same light with the actors, each of whom plays several roles. The SSE's goal is to restore the original vitality of the plays.

http://www.ishakespeare.com

Performance Schedule:

Schaamstreken, by Theatre Company Marot (Groningen, Netherlands)

Schaamstreken by Theatre Company Marot is a wild parade of extravagant creatures roaming the streets during Carnival. As part of their feast, they play the adventures of a hot young lady, her shriveled husband, her panting lover and a couple of ravenous rogues. Schaamstreken deals with people riven by their carnal instincts, caught up in a crazy concatenation of adultery, chicanery, burglary, and cross-dressing.

Schaamstreken is based on a sixteenth-century Dutch farce-text which has survived in the inventory of the Haarlem Chamber of Rhetoric "Trouw moet Blijcken." (Original title: esbatement van Lippen ende Lijse ende van Jan Vleermuijs; anon., Haarlem, ms. G, ff

64v-73r), translated and directed by Femke Kramer and Jacques Tersteeg.

Since 1990, THEATRE COMPANY MAROT has performed contemporary theatre based on early Dutch drama. The group has appeared at international festivals in the Netherlands, UK, Canada, and Italy.

Performances summer 1998:
Groningen (NL): 19, 20 and 26 June
Camerino (I): 3, 4 and 5 July Festival Dramma Medioevale Europeo
Leeds (UK): 13 July International Medieval Conference
Odense (DK): 7 and 8 August SITM colloqium

For further information: F.L.Kramer@let.rug.nl
phone (++31 50) 363 72 64 / 318 84 12

Poculi Ludique Societas
THE YORK CYCLE
June 19-21, 1998
Performance and Conference

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~medieval/www/pls/ykinfo.htm

Poculi Ludique Societas presents the first complete staging of the York Cycle in over twenty years on Saturday, June 20, 1998 on the campus of Victoria College, University of Toronto. This wagon production will be staged at four stations by groups from around the world. At the moment, we have 5 plays coming from England, about 18 from the United States, and the rest from Canada.

Following the practice of fifteenth-century York, the performance will start at dawn and finish at sundown. The York Cycle will be set in the context of a scholarly conference on the staging of the plays (see below).

PLS
39 Queen's Park
Cresc. E.
Toronto M5S 2C3, Canada
plspls@chass.utoronto.ca

The York Cycle: Then and Now
Victoria College, University of Toronto
Friday, June 19,1998

Wagon and Street
Session One: 'Which Is the Front?"
Moderator: Garret Epp, U. of Alberta
Meg Twycross, U. of Lancaster
Douglas Hayes, U. of Toronto
John McKinnell, U. of Durham

Session Two: "...In the pagond and in the strete also..."
Moderator: Clifford Davidson, U. of Western Michigan
Margaret Rogerson, U. of Sydney
Martin Walsh, U. of Michigan
Ralph Blasting, Towson State University

Sound and Poetry
Session three: "Hearing and Seeing"
Moderator: David Bevington, U of Chicago
Charles Costello, U. of Toronto
Elleen White, York
Pamela King, U. of Lancaster

Session Four: "'...Saie me nowe somwhat': Language and Prosody"
Moderator: Chester Scoville, U. of Toronto
Richard Beadle, Cambridge University
Elza Tiner, Lynchburg College
Alexandra F. Johnston, U. of Toronto

Session Five: Public Lecture
Moderator: Kimberley Yates, U. of Toronto
Speaker: Peter Meredith, U. of Leeds

Saturday, June 20, 1998
The York Cycle performed in procession from wagons beginning at dawn.

Sunday, June 21, 1998
Session Six: Directors' Roundtable
Moderator: David Klausner, U. of Toronto

Session Seven: Audience's Roundtable
Moderator: Barbara Palmer, Mary Washington College

York Mystery Plays
York, England
12 July 1998

The Guilds of York, for the first time in 400 years, are taking a major role in their Mystery Plays to recreate all the pageantry of the original performances in the medieval streets.

Eleven distinctive Plays from the world famous Cycle are to be performed on decorated pageant wagons, drawn in procession through the City from one playing-place or 'station' to the next. Out of 7 Guilds, 5 are producing and performing their own Play, using personnel and resources from within the Guild, or with some help from a local dramatic society.

Beginning with the spectacular Creation of the World (brought forth by the Guild of Building), and ending with the Mercers' terrifying Doomsday each part of the Cycle is represented.

The production is part of the York Early Music Festival. Further details and a booking form are available from Mrs. Louise Harrison, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York, Y01 2EP.
E-Mail: lah1@york.ac.uk

Digital Resources

Early European Drama Translation Series
http://www.cua.edu/www/eng/eedt.htm

Medieval Drama Links
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/theatre/emd/linksp1.htm

NetSERF Medieval Drama Page
http://www.cua.edu/www/hist/netserf/drama.htm

On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB)
http://orb.rhodes.edu/

Perform Web page
http://toisondor.byu.edu/perform/

Perform discussion group
To Subscribe, send email to: listserv@listserv.indiana.edu with the following line in the body of the message: subscribe PERFORM FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME

Perform Archives
http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/perform.html

Poculi Ludique Societas: Medieval & Renaissance Players of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~medieval/www/pls/

REED Web Page
http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed.html

REED-L discussion group
http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed-l.html
To Subscribe, send email to: listserv@listserv.utoronto.ca with the following line in the body of the message: subscribe REED-L FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME

REED-L Archives
http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/listarch?list=REED-L@listserv.utoronto.ca

Textes de Français Ancien (TFA) database
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/LFA/

The York Doomsday Project
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/medstud/yorkdoom/index.html

Corpus of Medieval French Religious Drama by Graham Runnalls
Includes titles of texts; location of mss and early editions; brief bibliographical references to critical editions, whether published or theses or in progress.
http://toisondor.byu.edu/fmddp/corpus.html

MRDS Business

Minutes from Annual Business Meeting

Kalamazoo, MI
May 9, 1997
5:00 p.m.
Stinson Lounge
Larry Clopper, Presiding

1. The minutes from the last meeting were presented and approved as written.

2. Jesse Hurlbut read the Treasurer's Report. It was noted that only 50% of current membership had paid their dues.
   

3. Topics for future sessions. It was voted to accept the following topics and organizers for sessions at future meetings:

   KALAMAZOO 1998
   " Medieval and/or Renaissance? The Range of Dramatic Activity in England in the 1560's" (Richard Emmerson)
   "Boys' Drama in the Renaissance" (David Bevington)
   "Before Hollywood: Pyrotechnics and Spectacular Effects in Medieval and Renaissance Drama" (Philip Butterworth)

   MLA 1998
   "Performing Female: Embodiment and Personification in the Medieval Theatre" (Pamela Sheingorn) This session will be co-sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
   "Early Drama and Visual Culture" (Mimi Dixon)

   Other topics remaining for future sessions:
   Mediating characters (John Coldewey)
   Teaching Medieval Drama (John Coldewey)
   Teaching Applications for REED Collections(Elza Tiner)
   Recentering the Text (Alexandra Johnston)
   Exotic or non-european influences on drama
   Representing the Sacred

4. Elections. Because of some confusion in the terms of office it was determined that Larry Clopper and Milla Riggio would remain respectively President and Vice President for one more year. Thanks to the outgoing Council Members was expressed with warm applause. The floor was open for nominations for Officers. The following nominations were accepted:

   Vice President: John Coldewey, Martin Walsh

   Secretary/Treasurer: Jesse Hurlbut

   Council Members: Gloria J. Betcher, James C. Cummings, Richard Emmerson, Ruth Evans, James Stokes, Paul Whitfield White

5. PLS Report. David Klausner distributed a flyer regarding the 1998 PLS York Cycle performance. The Townley Noah play is scheduled to be performed July 5-12, 1997 as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
   

6. A round of applause was offered to thank Kimberly Janczuk for her work on the Spring 1997 Newsletter.
   

7. Alexandra Johnston made two announcements. First, that the REED Newsletter is now a peer-reviewed on-line journal: Early Theatre. Second, the second volume of the LUDUS series (from Scholars Press) is now out and features several articles by MRDS members.

Respectfully submitted,

Jesse D. Hurlbut
May 22, 1997

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