MedievalandRenaissanceDramaSocietyNewsletter-Spring2023
The 58th International CongressonMedievalStudies Thursday, May 11, through Saturday, May 13, 2023
ReexaminingtheAudience(s)ofEarlyDramaandFestive Performance
Session323–Saturday,May13,10:00AM
BernhardCenter211
Presider: Carolyn Coulson, Shenandoah Univ.
Organizer: Carolyn Coulson
Childrenin theAudienceofLateMedievalDrama
Alexandra Claridge, Univ. of Liverpool
FromEverymantoEverybody:RitualKinship,Cultural Competence,andtheMoralityPlay
Mary Maxine Browne, Purdue Univ.
MedievalMysteryPlaysintheAgeofDarwin
H. M. Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
NewVoicesinEarlyDrama
Session394–Saturday,May13,1:30PM
SchneiderHall2345(Hybrid)
Presider: Emma Maggie Solberg, Bowdoin College
Organizer: Emma Maggie Solberg
PersonatingBeasts:AnimalNeighborshipontheEarly ModernStage
Chris Klippenstein, Columbia Univ
MakingMary’sHistory:QueerSpectersintheN-Town MaryPlay
Bradley J. Peppers, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia
“Youshallcomprehend allvagrommen”:VagrantSpecters andComicPolicingin Much Ado About Nothing
Estevan Alemán, Univ. of Pennsylvania
“Thefluddcomesfleetingeinfullfaste”:Ecological DisasterandEcofeministGossipsinThreeNoahPlays
Phoenix Gonzalez, Northwestern Univ.
Respondent: Susannah Crowder, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
ReflectingonPerformancePastandPresent:Players, Playing,andEnsembles:ASessioninHonorofClifford Davidson
Session422,Saturday,May13,3:30PM
BernhardCenter209
Presider: Kyle A. Thomas, Missouri State Univ.
Organizer: Lofton L. Durham, III, Western Michigan Univ.
PerformanceattheCongress:ACliffordDavidson Retrospective
Lofton L. Durham III
ARetrospectiveoftheUniversityofMichigan’s“Harlotry Players”(1983—2022)
Martin W. Walsh, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
SurveyingFifteenth-andSixteenth-CenturyActors’Roles throughVirtualReality:ACaseforMediaArchaeology?
Estelle Catherine Doudet, Univ. de Lausanne
PlayersintheNorthernPalatinate:TheEvidenceforDrama
ProductioninLateMedievalDurham
Mark C. Chambers, Durham Univ.
TakingtheStage:TheRoleofWomeninMedievalTheatre
Jesse Njus, Virginia Commonwealth Univ
MRDSBusinessMeeting
Saturday,May13,5:30–6:30PM–FetzerCenter1055
Contents
MRDSICMSSessions
OtherICMSSessionsandPerformances
LeedsSessionsonDrama
RecentPublications
ROMARDand EarlyTheatreSession
SurveyingJournalsandTheirPracticesacrossMedieval andEarlyModernStudies(ARoundtable)
Session188–Friday,May12,10:00
SchneiderHall2335(Hybrid)
Presider: Melinda Gough, McMaster Univ.
Organizers: Kyle A. Thomas, Missouri State Univ.
Melinda Gough
Aroundtablediscussionwith AdrienneWilliamsBoyarin, Early Middle English
William R.Bowen, Renaissance and Reformation
MichaelCornett, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
JaneHwangDegenhardt, English Literary Renaissance
ElizabethDutton, Medieval English Theatre Journal
RandaElKatib, Early Modern Digital Review
OliviaHolmes, Mediaevalia
ShaziaJagot, postmedieval
KatherineL.Jansen, Speculum
JeanettePatterson, Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
CarolSymes, The Medieval Globe
Note from Kyle Thomas, ROMARD Editor
Wehaveastronggroupofjournalsrepresentedandaformat thatwillattempttobreakoutofthemoldofmerelyaQ&A sessionbyallowingouraudiencetoparticipateinadiscussion ofconcernsmostpressingtothem.It’salsoahybridsession sothosenotinattendancecanjoinonline.
OtherICMS SessionsonDrama&Performance
“NoExit”:WhatHappenedtoHermione:Medievalism, MiraclesandMeta-dramainTheWinter’sTale(A Roundtable)
Session22,Thursday,May11,10:00
SchneiderHall1145
Presider: Sarah Waters, Univ. of Buckingham
Organizer: Sarah Waters
AroundtablediscussionwithGraceTiffany,Western MichiganUniv.;TiffanyElaine Schubert,WyomingCatholic College;NoraL.Corrigan,MississippiUniv.forWomen; SusanMicheleDunn-Hensley,WheatonCollege,Illinois; LauraJaneHiggins,OxfordBrookesUniv.;andJoeRicke, InklingFolkFellowship
Authors,Performers,andAudiencesintheMiddleAges
Session173–Friday,May12,10:00
SchneiderHall1120
Sponsor:MusicologyatKalamazoo
Presider: Sarah Ann Long, Michigan State Univ.
Organizer: Rebecca Maloy, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder
MedievalPerformancePractice:ImitatingtheImagined Model
Angela Mariani, Texas Tech Univ.
The Visitatio sepulchri: ThePlatypusofMedieval LiturgicalRites?
Melanie Batoff, Luther College
TextualCommunityandÞingeyrarAbbey
Kyrie E. Bouressa, Independent Scholar
OtherPapersofInterest
NewDirectionsinLateMedievalFrenchLiterature
Session297(Virtual)–Friday,May12,3:30
Re-ThinkingParodyasTouch:ExamplesfromLate MedievalDrama
Bryant White, Vanderbilt Univ
PrayandPlaywithMary:FromProcessionsand PilgrimagestoPerformancesI
Session409(Virtual)–Saturday,May13,1:30PM
FromtheEpictotheTheater:TheRepresentationofthe LegendofMonserratintheFamousComedyofCristóbal deMoralesyGuerrero
Marta Cristina Oria de Rueda Molins, École Normale Supérieur de Lyon
ICMS Performances
MaloryAloud:TristramandIsolde(APerformance)
Session305–Friday,May12,7:00PM
Valley3Stinson305(KelloggRoom)
Presider: Patricia Voichahoske Lehman, Washtenaw Community College
AperformancebyCarolL.Robinson,KentStateUniv.–Trumbull;BernardLewis,MurrayStateUniv.;Kimberly Jack,AthensStateUniv.;AlisaHeskin,WesternMichigan Univ.;RebeccaFoxBlok,HopeCollege;andAnastasija Ropa,LatvianAcademyofSportEducation
Session308*-Friday,May13,1:00PMEDT
PerformancesofMariedeFrance
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ.
Presider: Simonetta Cochis
AperformancebyGailBorrow,ExploreTheArch;Tamara BentleyCaudill,JacksonvilleUniv.;YvonneLeBlanc, IndependentScholar
MostlyMedievalTheatreFestival
Christine dePizan’s Le Dit de Poissy:PartOne
Friday11:30AM,FetzerCenterLobby
Presider:LoftonL.Durham,III,WesternMichiganUniv.
PerformedinEnglish:readingandtranslationbySuzanne Savoy
Christine dePizan’s Le Dit de Poissy:PartTwo
Friday5:30PM,Valley3Fox307
Presider:LoftonL.Durham,III,WesternMichiganUniv.
PerformedinEnglish:readingandtranslationbySuzanne Savoy
Christine dePizan’s Le Dit de Poissy:PartThree
Saturday11:30AM,FetzerCenterLobby
Presider:LoftonL.Durham,III,WesternMichiganUniv.
PerformedinEnglish:readingandtranslationbySuzanne Savoy
LeedsInternationalMedievalCongress2023 SessionsonDrama
PerformingPremodernDisability:Disabilityin Performance,DisabilityasPerformance
Session1642.NewlynBuilding:GR.07
Thursday06July2023:11.15-12.45
Sponsor: Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society
Organiser: Mark Campbell Chambers, Department of English Studies, Durham University
Moderator: Diana Wyatt, Department of English Studies, Durham University
DisabilityinPerformanceintheRecordsfromMedieval Durham:TheCaseofMasterNicholasofYork
Mark Campbell Chambers
BlindnessandBodyWasteinMedievalFrenchFarce
Marla Carlson, Department of Theatre & Film Studies, University of Georgia, Athens
TheStagingofBodilyDevianceinLeadingRolesin SpanishGoldenAgeComedia
Pablo García Piñar, Department of Romance
Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago
CorrelationsbetweenPoetryandDrama
Session843.MichaelSadler Building:LG.16
Tuesday4July2023:16.30-18.00
Sponsor: Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval
Organiser: Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, JustusLiebig-Universität Gießen
Moderator/Chair: Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
TheVirginMarybetweenOrthodoxyand Reformin MedievalBohemia:Drama,Poetry,Prose
Eliška Kubartová, Katedra divadelních a filmových studií, Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc
TheVirginMaryinLateMedievalCatalanDramaand Poetry:InterdependenciesandCorrelations
Lenke Kovács, Departament de Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General, Universitat de les Illes
Balears, Palma
BetweenPrefigurationand Example:BetweenChristian andJewishTraditions-QueenEstherin16th-Century DramaandPoetry
Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-LiebigUniversität Gießen
PapersofInterest
NetworksofArtisanry:EntangledObjects,Colours, AndPaintings
Session729EstherSimpson Building:2.12
Tuesday04July2023:14.15-15.45
NetworksofNarrative:TheN-TownPlay Burial of Christ and Guarding of the Sepulcher andParishChurchWall Paintings
Therese Novotny, Department of English, Modern Languages & Philosophy, Carroll University, Wisconsin
MedievalYorkshire:CommunitiesandNetworks, 10th-15th Centuries
Session: 1612ClarendonBuilding:2.01
Thursday06July2023:11.15-12.45
Coalfor CabbagesintheTownley Killing of Abel Play
Gillian Redfern, Department of English, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester
Performances
LudusDanielis:MusicandTalesfromthePlayofDaniel PerformedbyTrouvèreMedievalMinstrels
Tuesday04July,20.30-22.00
Stage@leeds:Stage1
Price:£16.00
The Ludus Danielis wascomposedattheAbbeyof BeauvaisinNorthernFranceinthe12thcenturyandis amusicalplaytellingtwoofthestoriesoftheOld Testament
Trouvèreareoneofthelongest-establishedmedievalmusic ensemblesintheUK,formedin1998byPaulLeigh.
RecentPublications
Hecastus
PerformedbyTheLordsof Misrule
Wednesday05July,18.30-19.30
UniversitySquare
Thiseventisfreeofcharge.
Hecastus isamoralityplaywritteninLatinin1539bythe DutchauthorMacropedius.Widely performedand widelytranslatedinitsday,Macropedius’version followsthestoryof Hecastus(Greekfor‘everyman’), whoisfacedwith theprospectofdeath,butcanfindno onetoaccompanyhimtothegrave.
TheLordsofMisruleareanamateurdramaticsociety firstestablishednearly50yearsagoattheCentrefor MedievalStudiesattheUniversityofYork.
Books, General
ToddAndrewBorlik. Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain.Oxford:New York:OxfordUniversityPress2023.
PhilipButterworth. Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions Analysis and Catalogue.Milton:Taylor&Francis Group2022
HeidiCraig. Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars.Cambridge, UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversity Press2023.
LisaHopkins. The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage.Berlin;Boston:WalterdeGruyter:MedievalInstitute Publications2022.
Erith Jaffe-Berg. Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 15201650.Leeds:ArcHumanitiesPress2022.
Asuka.Kimura. Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage.Berlin;Boston:DeGruter;KalamazooMI: MedievalInstitutePublications2023.
EmmaLipton. Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays.Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress2022.
AndreasLoeweandKatherineFirth. Martin Luther and the Arts: Music, Images and Drama to Promote the Reformation. Leiden;Boston:Brill2023.
LauraSeymour. Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature.Edinburgh:EdinburghUniversity Press2023.
KyleA.Thomas, The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A Dramaturgical Analysis, Historical Commentary, and Diplomatic Latin Edition, with a New English Verse Translation by Carol Symes;EarlyDrama,Art, andMusic.Berlin:DeGruyter,2023..
LaurenWeindling. Thicker than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama.Tuscaloosa:The UniversityofAlabama Press2023.
JeffreyR.Wilson. Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History Philadelphia:TempleUniversityPress2022.
Books, Editions
JodyEnders,Editor,translator. Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage AnnArbor,Michigan:UniversityofMichiganPress2023.
JodyEnders,Editor,translator. Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French
Farces in Modern English.Philadelphia:Universityof PennsylvaniaPress2022.
FrancescoScaleraeditor,translator. Gelastinus byGaudenzio Merula.Firenze:SISMELEdizionidelGalluzzo2022.
Books, Essay Collections
CarlaBinoandCorinnaRicasoli,Editors. Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts.Leiden; Boston:Brill2023.
CarlaM.BinoandCorinnaRicasoli.Introduction.
TimothyVerdon.TheDramaofChristianImages:Art, Liturgy,SacredTheatre.
CarlaM.Bino.A‘DramaticTurn’:TheRevolutionof ChristianRepresentation.
AndrewWalkerWhite.NoDramaPlease,We’reGreek: SacredPlaysfromaGreekOrthodoxPerspective.
NilsHolgerPetersen.EnactingSacredNarrative:Biblical, Liturgical,andSacramentalPracticesin theLatinWest.
RachelFultonBrown.MaryintheScripturesasContainerand Way:HenryAdamsandtheVirgin ofChartres.
KamilKopania.ThePowerofImagesofPassion:Animated Sculpturesof theCrucifiedChristandtheProblemof VisualizingSufferinginMedievalArt.
CarolynMuessig.WomenasPerformersoftheBible:Female PreachinginPremodernEurope.
AllieTerry-Fritsch.DramaticActionandtheParticipatory SpectatorattheSacroMontediVarallo:FrozenTheatreor ImmersiveInstallation?
Fabrizio Fiaschini.TheParadoxoftheSaintActress:Church andCommediaDell’ArteduringtheCounter-Reformation.
FrancescMassip.PerformingGlory: The Misteri or Festa d’Elx onContemporaryStages.
Jean-ClaudeSchmitt.PerformingtheBible:ChristianDrama andtheArts.
MuratÖgütcüandAishaHussain,Editors. Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama.ArdenStudiesin EarlyModernDrama.LisaHopkinsandDouglasBruster, SeriesEditors.London:Bloomsbury,2023.
MuratÖgütcüandAishaHussain.Introduction.
PartI.Civility,Commonality,andtheClassics
MuratÖgütcü.MaterializingMamluksandTurksinSalterne’s Tomumbeius.
DanielBlank.CulturalandCelestialRepresentationsin Goffe’s The Courageous Turk.
MarkChambersandJohnnyIgnacio.ByzantinesinEnglish JesuitDrama:PerformingJosephSimons’ Leo the Armenian
PartII.Costume,Space,andPlace
AishaHussain.DramatisingBordersandBehavioursofthe Eastern‘Other’inGreene’sAlphonsusand Orlando Furioso.
HanaFerencová.StagingaMulticulturalWorldinDaborne’s A Christian Turned Turk.
PartIII.Sight,Smell,andBlood
LubaabaAl-Azami.‘SeatofMerchandise’:StagingIndian Tradein The Triumphs of Honour and Industry.
Nour ElGazzaz.ScentoftheOrient:TheKing’sMenandthe CorporatizationofSmell.
MarianneMontgomery.FatFalstaffsandSulliedFleshin Dryden’s Amboyna.
JyotsnaG.Singh.Afterword:Journeysinto the‘Orient.’
Articles and Chapters
RobertBarrett.“MedievalDrama,EastandWest”(co-written withElizabethOyler).In Teaching the Global Middle Ages, editedbyGeraldineHeng,382-95.NewYork:Modern LanguageAssociation,2022.
ChristopherCrosbie.“AristotelianTime,Ethics,andtheArtof PersuasioninShakespeare’s Henry V.” Literature,3(2023), 82-93.
ErikaT.Lin.“CirclesandLines:CommunityandLegacyin TaylorMac’sGary:ASequeltoTitusAndronicus.”In The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance,editedbyDavidRománandSeanF. Edgecomb.AnnArbor:University ofMichiganPress,2023.
RichardRastell.“CivicMinstrelsinLateMedievalEngland: NewLightonDutiesandCareers”inthe Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 52(2021).
MaggieVinter.“‘Who’sThere?’HearingCharacterin Hamlet.” ELH.Volume90,Number1,Spring2023.
Select Journals
ComparativeDrama
Editor:DanielKnapper.
Volume56,Number4,Winter2022
IgorDjordjevic.Thomas,LordCromwellRecontextualized: AnEconomicFableinResponseto The Merchant of Venice.
EarlyModernLiteraryStudies
Editor,MatthewSteggle
Vol.22No.2,2022
MatteoPangallo.DestroyingThingsontheEarlyModern EnglishStage.
ToddH.J.Pettigrew.WaveringinFaith:Pythagoras, Metempsychosis,andtheFateoftheSoulinEnglish RenaissanceDrama.
PeterK.Andersson.‘ASimpleHonestDunce’:Humphrey KingandtheAmbivalentStatusoftheUneducatedPoetat theTurnof theSeventeenthCentury.
EllwoodWiggins.StageofException:PoliticsandTheaterin Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
RogerHoldsworth.‘Tongue-tied,ourqueen?’:TheAnatomy ofaPun.
EnglishLiteraryRenaissance
Coeditors:JosephBlack,MaryThomasCrane,Jane HwangDegenhardt,andAdam Zucker
Volume53,Number2,Spring2023
JillP.Ingram. “Hickscornersjestes”:ThomasNashe, Martin’s Month’s Mind,andtheTudor DramaticTradition.
EuropeanMedievalDrama
Editors,CoraDietl,LenkeKovács,MartinBažil,and EliškaKubartová
Volume26,2022
ElaineStrattonHild.TheLongJourneyoftheMagi:Reassessing‘LiturgicalDrama’forEpiphanyfromNevers.
ChristopheChaguinian.TheGoodFridayCeremoniesofthe BurialofChrist:ASurveyofEuropeanPractices.
MaxHarris.ConspicuousDiscontinuity:TheatricalVariations ontheLifeofAnthonyinMedievalItalyandFrance.
VerónicadaRosaGuimarães.StagedResistance:Rethinking theContextofthe Tragaedia de Sancta Agnetis.
FrancescaRobusto.TheInnerSceneofHildegardofBingen’s Ordo Virtutum.
KyleA.Thomas.PlayfulPerformance:GameplayandTheatre intheEarlyMiddleAges.
NadiaT.vanPelt.HenryVIII,Zeitgeist,andCharivari: ExpandingtheDiscourse.
PiotrBering.Dall’ItaliaallaPolonia:ItalienischeTheaterEinflüsseinPoleninMittelalterundRenaissance.
Literature
SpecialIssue:TheTimesTheyAreA-changin’:Temporal ShiftsinEarlyModernDrama
GuestEditors,LisaHopkinsandMeganHolman.
Volume2,Issue4,2022.
ChristopherCrosbie.AristotelianTime,Ethics,andtheArtof PersuasioninShakespeare’s Henry V.
LisaHopkins.StagingStGeorgeaftertheReformation. PaulInnesandKatieJames.TemporalCompressionin Shakespeare’s Richard III
EdwardB.M.Rendall.TemporalInstability,Wildernesses, andtheOtherworldinEarlyModernDrama.
ChloeRenwick.“InHerISee/AllBeautiesFrailty”:Mirroring HelenofTroyand ElizabethIinThomasHeywood’s The Iron Age and The Second Part of The Iron Age (c.1596/c.1610).
PamelaM.King.PerpetuallyEditingTowneley:A SpeculativeTextualNoteonMrsNoah’s‘StaffordBlue.’
BenParsonsandBasJongenelen.UnderstandingtheBlanketTossinMedievalDrama:TheCaseof Een Cluijt van LijsgenenJanLichthart.
ErnstGerhardt.AlimentaryAddressandtheManagementof AppetiteandHungerin Jacob and Esau
ElisabethDuttonandOliviaRobinson.LastSupper,First Communion:SomeStagingChallengesinN.Townandthe HuyNuns’PlaybasedonDeguileville’s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine
RenaissanceDrama
Editors: JeffreyMastenandWilliam N.West
Volume50,Number2,Fall2022
LauraKolb.FemininePerformancein The Taming of the Shrew:FinalSpeechandMissingSoliloquy.
RoyaBiggie. TheBotanyofColonizationinJohnFletcher’s The Island Princess
Special Section: Trans-Lation, Trans-Nation, Trans-Desire
SusanneL.WoffordandJaneTylus.Introduction:CrossDressingTechnologiesofMobility,Trauma,andFreedom.
JaneTylus.LaCalandra:TheTraumabehindCross-Dressing.
LuciaCardelli.TheHymenalResolutioninthe Accademia degli Intronati’s Gl’Ingannati
KarenNewman.PlayingWomen,PlayingMen:CrossDressinginSixteenth-CenturyFrance,1980sNewYork, andEarlyModernCritique.
BarbaraFuchs.TheCouragetoTransform:Diversifyingthe ClassicsTranslates Valor, agravio y mujer.
SusanneL.Wofford.Cross-DressingandTechnologiesof DesireandRevengeinAnaCaro, Valor, agravio y mujer withaGlanceat Twelfth Night
ROMARD
Editor,KyleThomas
Volume59(2022)
KyleA.Thomas.Introduction.
E.MaggieSolberg.Review:TheStateoftheField:Seven RecentMonographsinEarlyDramaStudies.
MelanieBatoff.ElucidatingtheNexusbetweentheGospels, Exegesis,andthe Visitatio sepulchri intheGermanSpeakingLands.
JenniferA.Reid.“OfRobyn-hoodandofHisTraine”: Competition,Improvisation,andPhysicalContestsinEarly RobinHoodFestalPerformance.
HeatherBailey.“Fletcher’sSchoolroom:”DanceandActioas HumanistPedagogyin The Two Noble Kinsmen
MedievalEnglishTheatre
Editedby MegTwycross,SarahCarpenter,Elisabeth DuttonandGordonLKipling
Volume44,2023
NadiavanPelt.JohnBlanke’sWages:NoBusinessLike ShowBusiness.
RileyS.Stewart.“Thentheirheirsmayprosperwhilemine bleeds”:LegalRenege,Witnessing,andChildCorpsesin Two Lamentable Tragedies and A Yorkshire Tragedy.
ShakespeareBulletin
GeneralEditor:PeterKirwan
Volume40,Number4,Winter2022
TrevorBoffone,DanielleRosvally.“Everyoneinillyriaisbi youabsolutecowards”:ShakespeareTikTok, Twelfth Night, andtheSearchforaQueerUtopia.
EmerMcHugh.Writing(Irish) HistoriesontheBody: DruidShakespeare,Gender,andtheShakespeareanHistory Play.
KevinEwert. “Youwanttosortthatout?”:AConversation onOverwhelmingWhiteness,Anti-Racism,TheaterMaking,andShakespearewithKeithHamiltonCobb.
ShakespeareQuarterly
Editor:JeremyLopez
Volume74,Number1,Spring2023
TheComplexionsofShakespeare’sVoices. BruceR.Smith.
EvelynTribble. “CircleWorcke”:AtmospheresontheEarly ModernStage.
JulianYates.TheShakespeareArkofAmerica.
Volume73,Numbers3-4,Fall-Winter2022
JadeStanding.Conscience-Caught:Historicizingthe ReligiousandLegalTraditionsofConsciencein Hamlet
MeghanC.Andrews.TheCommonplacingofProfessional PlaysRevisited:Print,Theater,andEarlyModern InstitutionalExchange.
BradleyJ.Irish.RacialDisgustinEarlyModernEngland:The Caseof Othello.
GaryTaylor.ShakespeareanMagnitudes. LaurencePublicover. Pericles’sHummingWaters:Nonhuman Agency,TextualCriticism,andthePracticeofMaterial Ecocriticism.
Kenneth J.E.Graham. King Lear andBlessing. Folio400
October2022–November2022
Recent and Forthcoming Productions
ShakespeareinYosemite UniversityofCaliforniaMerced
RomeoandJuliet
ShakespeareinYosemiteperformedaneco-adapted Romeo and Juliet forEarthDay2023,inYosemiteNationalPark.Afilmof theproductionwillgoontothecompany’sfreeYouTube channel,whereonecanalsofindafilmoftheir2022 Love’s Labor’s Lost,and2021 Imogen in the Wild (Cymbeline).
AsNovember8,2023,isthe400th anniversaryof Shakespeare’sFirstFolio,avarietyofexhibits,documentaries, galas,andperformancesareafoot. Thissitetracksmanyof them,especiallyintheUK.
Visit:https://folio400.com/
Foralistofevents:https://folio400.com/celebration-2023/
Moreathttps://yosemiteshakes.ucmerced.edu/ Visit
RudeMechanicals
’TisPityShe’saWhore 2023NewCollegeConference
ShepherdUniversity’sRudeMechanicalsMedievaland RenaissancePlayerswillbeperformingJohnFord’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore inearlyNovember.
TheRudeMechanicalsperformunderthedirectionofDr. BettyEllzey.Pleasevisithttps://www.shepherd.edu/eml/rudemechanicals
Forthcoming Events
ParishandPerformance
UniversityofWarwick–Saturday13May2023
Thetwenty-firstParishSymposium,co-sponsoredbyMy-Parish, TheWarwickNetworkforParishResearch,andRecordsofEarly EnglishDrama(withitsREEDOnlineplatform),focusesonthe participants,occasions,evolutionsandmeaningsofsuch activities,showcasingpapersfromaninternationalsetofspeakers rangingacrossawidegeographicalandchronologicalspectrum.
Keynote Address:“‘astrangeperswasion’:Englishparish performancesandtheRecordsofEarlyEnglishDrama”by PeterGreenfield,ProfessorEmeritusofEnglish,Universityof PugetSound,Washington
Viewtheprogrammeandregisterforthesymposiumat: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/myparish/parishsymposia/ performance/.
OhioValleyShakespeareConference: Shakespeare,SocialJustice,andHumanRights
October26-28
TheOVSCwelcomespapersandroundtablesthataddressthis year’sthemeofSocialJusticeandHumanRights.Howdo Shakespeare’sworksengagewithhumanrightsdiscourses?The OVSCisalsointerestedinShakespeareinadaptation.Howdo contemporarywriters,directors,actors,andfilmmakersuse Shakespearetoaddresshumanrightsviolationsandtoactivate readers,audiences,andviewerstopursueamorejustworld? Alternatively,howhaveShakespeare’sworksbeenusedtojustify theoppressionandvilificationoftargetedpopulations.
Pleasesubmit200-300-wordabstractsbySeptember1,2023,to OVSC.UD.2023@gmail.com.TheOVSCalsooffersanearly decisionoptionwiththedeadlineofJuly1,2023.
KeynoteSpeaker:Dr.PatriciaAkhimie OVSCoffersprizesforbestgraduateandundergraduatepapers. Pleasevisithttps://www.ovshakes.org/?page_id=858
Shakespeare’sFirstFolio:1623–2023
August2023andApril2024
JonathanWalkerisorganizingapublichumanitiesprojecttitled Shakespeare’sFirstFolio:1623–2023,whichwillcommemorate the400thanniversarywithanexhibition,alectureseries,and performancesofShakespeareandrama,opera,music,andfilm. ProgrammingwilltakeplaceinPortland,Oregon,between August2023andApril2024,exceptfor6(orpossiblyall)ofthe lectures,whichwillbeavailableviawebinar.
Amongthescheduledlecturesarethefollowing:
ShakespeareinPerformance(October26,2023)
Prof.DanielPollack-Pelzner,PortlandStateUniversity
Shakespeare’sBook(November8,2023)
Prof.JonathanWalker,PortlandStateUniversity
ShakespeareandtheVisualArts(TBA)
Prof.ClarkHulse,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago
RaceRelationsinShakespeareanDrama(TBA)
Prof.PatriciaAkhimie,RutgersUniversityandtheFolger ShakespeareLibrary
PopMusicintheRenaissance(TBA)
Prof.JosephM.Ortiz,UniversityofTexas,ElPaso
Shakespeare’sSister:Women,Gender,andSpeech(TBA)
Prof.HeidiBrayman,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside
Science,PublicHealth,andtheTheater(TBA)
Prof.TanyaPollard,GraduateCenterandBrooklynCenter,City UniversityofNewYork
AShakespeareanHistoryofSexuality(TBA)
Prof.ValerieTraub,UniversityofMichigan
TheRenaissanceKitchenandPortlandFoodieCulture(TBA)
Mr.JohnTufts
Visithttps://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/shakespeare/home
MedievalandRenaissanceDramaSocietyAnnualBusinessMeeting
BusinessMeetingAgenda
Saturday,May13,5:30–6:30PM–FetzerCenter1055
1ApprovalofMinutesfrom9May2022(Carolyn):
2.AnnouncementsandReports
a. Budgetreport(Frank)
i. 2021-2022completedreport.
ii. 2022-23(beforeendoffiscalyear)
b. ElectionsReport(Frank)
c. AnnualAwardsreport(Maggie)
d. ROMARDreport(Kyle)
e. Festival(Lofty)
f. Website,MRDSandROMARD(Elizabeth)
g. Kalamazoo,MLAandLeedsIMC
3.ActionItems
a. SponslerAward(Maggie)
b. Travelfundforjuniorscholars(Maggie)
c. Newstrategiesfor organizingconferencesessions (Maggie)
4.DiscussionItems
a. Bankaccounts:tobeformalizedMay12th,11a.m.
b. ICMS(2024),Leeds(2024),MLA(2025)session suggestions
c. Planfor2023BusinessMeeting.
5.Adjournment
MedievalandRenaissanceDramaSociety AnnualBusinessMeetingMinutes:Draft May11,2022
Present:FrankNapolitano,CarolynCoulson,MaggieSolberg, MarkChambers,ElizabethTavares,ChristinaFitzgerald,Max Harris,KyleThomas,HarryCushman,MichaelNorton, AlexandraJohnston,Mary-MaxineBrowne,LoftyDurham, ChrisSwift,SaraCarreno,KirstenMendoza,GlennEhrstine, AlexandraAtiya,NicoleRice,HanhBui,NeridaNewbigin, AnnHubert,JennaSoleo-Shanks,MartinWalsh
1. Welcome(Carolyn)
2. Approvalofminutesfrom11May2021 (Carolyn)
Passedunanimously.
3. AnnouncementsandReports
a. CouncilElectionsreport(Frank):tryingsomething newthisyear.SolicitingnominationsNOWrather thanhavingelectionbeforemeeting.Self nominationsarewelcome.Pleasesendnominations viachattoFrankprivatelyonZoom,andhewill
proceedfromthere.Lookingforarobustfieldof candidates.
b. Budgetreport+membershipreport(Frank)membershipup,moneyup,aboutbreakingeventhis year.ThankstoElizabethforsocialmediapush. Bankaccount:needtoopenanaccountinONEplace (Kalamazoo)-allofficerstogether.
c. Awardsreport(Maggie)
i. Bevington–Committee:MaggieSolberg (Chair),NicoleRice,CarolSymes.Award: NeridaNewbigin. Making a Play for God: The Sacre Rappresentazioni of Renaissance Florence.2vols.Toronto,ON:Universityof TorontoPress,2021.(Fullcitationsforall awardsbelow.*)HonorableMention: Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater.Ithaca,NY:Cornell UniversityPress,2021.
ii. Max-praiseforNerida’scollegiality.
iii. Palmer:Committee:ElizabethTavares(Chair), PenelopeGeng,NoemieNdiaye.Award: “‘Printedfollyes’:Mountebanksandthe PerformanceofAmbivalencewithinthe Archive.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51,no.3(2021).Honorable Mention:UrvashiChakravarty.“WhatIsthe HistoryofActorsofColorPerformingin ShakespeareintheUK?”
iv. Stevens:PenelopeGeng,NoémieNdiaye, ElizabethE.Tavares(Chair).Award:Kirsten Mendoza.“‘Thoumaiestinforcemybodybut notmee’:RacializingConsentinJohnMarston’s The Wonder of Women.” Renaissance Drama vol.49.1(2021):29–55.HonorableMention: AngelaVanhaelen.“Turnings:Motionand EmotionintheLabyrinthsofEarlyModern Amsterdam.”
v. Johnston–Committee:HarryCushman,Sheila Coursey,MiriahMim.Award:HanhBui. “SycoraxandtheAnatomiesof OldAge.” BritishShakespeareAssociationConference, Surrey,England,July2021.
vi. WinnerstalktoFrankaboutbestwaytobepaid!
d. ROMARDreport(Kyle)-Submit!!(Follow-up reportwassentinemailtoCarolynandFrank.)
ROMARDisontrackforIssue59,movingonto copyeditingverysoon(withapublicationdate scheduledfortheendofthecalendaryear).We willhave4articlesand,potentially,another performancecensus.Lastsummer,Kylewas invitedbyMelinaGough,editorof Early Theatre, tospeaktoseveralothereditorsofjournalsfocused
onmedievalandearlymoderntheatre/performance aboutthechangesmadetotheROMARDeditorial boardandourcontentofferings.Thisgroupwas broughttogethertoaddressmattersofinequityand marginalizationinoureditorialpractices.Kyleis happytosaythatROMARDhasbeenrecognized asaleaderinthisveryimportantendeavor. MelindaandKylehavekeptupourconversation andwearecurrentlyconsideringofferinga roundtableorpanelatnextyear’sICMS.Itwillbe coupledwitha“meettheeditor”opportunityin whichindividualscanspeaktoeditorsofmedieval journalsandlearnabouttheirpracticesandhowto submitasuccessfularticleforpublication.Finally, thisyearmarkstheendofthetwo-yeartermsfor oureditorialboard members.Kylediscusseshis plansforreplacinganyboardmemberswhowish tostepdownandnotrenewfor anothertwo-year term.Kyleasksthosewhohaven’treceivedhard copiesofROMARDtoemailhim.
4. MostlyMedievalTheatreFestival(Lofty) Changesto campus-Mostlymedievalperformance-spacequestions….
5. ActionItems
1. ICMS2023(4sessions)
1. Kyle’sROMARDsession
2. Players/Playing/Ensembles:in honor ofCliffordDavidson(Lofty)
3. TheAudiencesofEarly Drama/FestivePerformance (Carolyn)
4. NewVoicesinearlydrama (Maggie)
2. Leeds2023(2sessions,neither guaranteed)
1. DisabilityinPremodern Performance(MarkChambers)
2. ManuscriptandPremodern Performance:ReassessingThe Evidence(LexiAtiya)
3. MLA(2024),(2sessions,1guaranteed)
1. RaceinEarly Drama (Allsessionsapproved,viahandvoteasapackage.)
6. DiscussionItems
1. Carolynannouncesstatementon nonprofessionalorpredatorybehavior
2. Addingaprizeforfirstbooks
3. Recruitingjuniorscholars
7. Adjournment:4:31.
*[Fullcitationsfortheawardsareincludedintheofficial minutes. TheywereincludedintheSpring2022MRDS Newsletter.–gpn]
MRDS2024Awards CallforNominations
TheMRDSispleasedtorecognizeachievementsinresearch ofearlydramastudies,announcedeachyearatthe InternationalCongressonMedievalStudies.Eachcategoryof submissionsisjudgedbycommitteesmadeupofmembersof theMRDSExecutiveCouncilorthemembershipatlarge. Searchourarchivesforacompletelistingofpastwinnersin allfourcategories.
Eligibility.Both membersandnon-membersoftheMRDSare invitedto submit.Deadline.January30,2024
Categories
TheAlexandraJohnstonAwardisforthebestconference paperinearlydramastudiesbyagraduatestudent.The committeewillconsideranypresentationgivenwithintwelve monthsofthedeadlineandjudgedtobeofoutstanding quality.Winnersreceive$250USDaswellasaone-year membershiptotheMRDSandROMARD.
TheMartinStevensAwardisforthebestnewessayinearly dramastudies.Thecommitteewillconsideranyessay publishedwithineighteenmonthsofthedeadlineandjudged tobeofoutstandingquality.Winnersreceive$250USDas wellasaone-yearmembershiptotheMRDSandROMARD.
TheBarbaraPalmerAwardisforthebestnewessayinearly dramaarchivalresearch.Thecommitteewillconsiderany essaypublishedwithineighteenmonthsofthedeadlineand judgedtobeofoutstandingquality.Winnersreceive$250 USDaswellasaone-yearmembershiptotheMRDSand ROMARD.
TheDavidBevingtonAwardisforthebestnewbookinearly dramastudies,exclusiveofShakespeareandedited collections.Thecommitteewillconsideranybookofhigh qualitypublishedwithineighteenmonthsofthedeadline. Winnersreceive$500USDaswellasatwo-yearmembership totheMRDSandROMARD.
Submission
Forcompletedetailsonnominationandsubmissions,please visithttp://themrds.org/awards.
Announcement
AwardswillbeannouncedandpresentedattheannualMRDS publicbusinessmeetingattheannualmeetingofthe InternationalCongressonMedievalStudies(ICMS)at WesternMichiganUniversityinKalamazoo,Michigan.Each categoryofsubmissionsisjudgedbycommitteesmadeupof threeormoremembersoftheMRDSExecutiveCouncil.
2023BevingtonAwardforBestNewBook
TheDavidBevingtonAwardisforthebestnewbookinearlydrama studies,exclusiveofShakespeareandedited collections.Thecommitteewillconsideranybookofhigh qualitypublishedwithineighteenmonthsofthe deadline.Winnersreceive$500USDaswellasatwo-yearmembershiptotheMRDSandROMARD.
2022–2023Committee:NeridaNewbigin,E.MaggieSolberg(chair),andJefferyG.Stoyanoff
WinneroftheBevingtonAward:NoémieNdiaye. Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race.Series:RaceB4Race:CriticalRaceStudiesofthePremodern.Philadelphia,PA:Universityof PennsylvaniaPress,September2022.
TheBevingtoncommitteeisdelightedtoawardtheBevingtonAwardforbestnewbookinearlydramastudiesto NoémieNdiaye,RandyL.andMelvinR.BerlinAssistantProfessorofRenaissanceandEarlyModernEnglish LiteratureattheUniversityofChicago,forScriptsofBlackness:EarlyModernPerformanceCultureandthe MakingofRace,publishedintheRaceB4RaceserieseditedbyGeraldineHengandAyannaThompsonforthe UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress.Thismonograph,theauthor’sfirst,exploresthetheatricalpoeticsofthree techniquesofimpersonation,or“scriptsofblackness,”usedbywhiteperformerstorepresentAfro-diasporic peopleinthedramaofEngland,France,andSpaininthesixteenthandseventeenthcenturies:cosmetic blackup,acousticblackspeak,andkineticblackdances.Thecommittee,unanimousinitschoice,foundthisbookto beurgentlyimportant,ingeniouslycrafted,exceptionallyinsightful,andineluctablypersuasive.
HonorableMentionfortheBevingtonAward:JulieStonePeters. Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe.London:OxfordUniversityPress, 2022.
TheBevingtoncommitteewouldliketorecognizewithanhonorable mentionJulieStonePeters,H.Gordon Garbedian,ProfessorofEnglishandComparativeLiteratureatColumbiaUniversity,forLawasPerformance: Theatricality,Spectatorship,andtheMakingof LawinAncient,Medieval,andEarlyModernEurope,published intheLawandLiteratureserieseditedbyRobertSpooandSimonSternforOxfordUniversityPressin2022. ThismonographtracksthehistoryoflegalperformanceandspectatorshipfromtheAthenianlawcourtandthe Romanlegaltheatertothemedievalcourtroom,stocks,andscaffoldandthenontotheearlymodernstage, tavern,andTempleofLaw,demonstratingthefundamentalnecessityoftheatricalperformancetolaw’s realization.Thecommitteedeeplyappreciatedthisbookforitsmarriageofcomprehensivescholarshipand elegantwit.
2023StevensAwardforBestNewEssayinEarlyDramaStudies
TheMartinStevensAwardisforthebestnewessayinearlydramastudies.Thecommitteewillconsideranyessay publishedwithineighteenmonthsofthedeadlineandjudgedtobeofoutstandingquality.Winnersreceive$250 USDaswellasaone-yearmembershiptotheMRDSandROMARD.
2022–2023Committee:MarkChambers,HarryCushman(chair),andChristopherSwift
WinneroftheStevensAward:AnaLaguna.“IntheNameofLove:Cervantes’PlayonCaptivityinLagran sultana.”In Drawing the Curtain: Cervantes’s Theatrical Revelations,editedbyEstherFernándezand AdrienneMartín,pp.150–176.TheUniversityofTorontoPress,2022.
TheStevens/Palmercommitteeawardsthisyear’sStevensAwardforthebestnewessayinearlydramastudiesto AnaLaguna,Professorof EarlyModernSpanishLiteratureattheCollegeofArtsandSciencesatRutgers–Camden,forherchapter,“IntheNameofLove:Cervantes’PlayonCaptivityinLagransultana,”inthe collectionDrawingtheCurtain:Cervantes’sTheatricalRevelations,editedbyEstherFernándezandAdrienne MartínandpublishedbyTheUniversityofTorontoPressin2022.Thisbrilliantstudyexaminestheideaof captivitythroughtherepresentationofthehareminCervantes’Lagransultana(circa1608),persuasively arguingthatthisplaycritiquesthepatriarchalstructuresthat“pervadedtheEasternandWesternMediterranean cultures,”andparticularlytheinstitution,or“prison,”ofmarriage.
2023PalmerAwardforBestNewEssayin EarlyDramaArchivalResearch
TheBarbaraPalmerAwardisforthebestnewessayinearlydramaarchivalresearch.Thecommitteewillconsider anyessaypublishedwithineighteenmonthsofthedeadlineandjudgedtobeofoutstandingquality.Winners receive$250USDaswellasaone-yearmembershiptotheMRDSandROMARD.
2022–2023Committee:MarkChambers,HarryCushman(chair),andChristopherSwift
WinnerofthePalmerAward:AmyLidster.“‘Withmuchlabouroutofscatteredpapers’:TheCarolineReprintsof ThomasHeywood’s1and2IfYouKnowNotMeYouKnowNobody.” Renaissance Drama 49.2 (2021):pp. 205–228.
TheStevens/Palmercommitteeawardsthisyear’sPalmerAwardforthebestnewessayinearlydrama archival researchtoAmyLidster,DepartmentalLecturerinEnglishLanguageandLiteratureatJesusCollege,Oxford, for herarticle“‘Withmuchlabouroutofscatteredpapers’:TheCarolineReprintsofThomasHeywood’s1and 2IfYou KnowNotMeYouKnowNobody”publishedinRenaissanceDramain2021.Thisdeeplyresearched studyof theearlypublicationhistoryofThomasHeywood’s1and2IfYouKnowNotMeYouKnowNobody putsforwardaninnovativemodelof earlymodernproductionthatincludesnotonlytheplaywrightand the publisher,butalso“broadernetworksofcontributorsthatdestabilizetheideaofsingleagencyorauthorship.”
2023JohnstonAwardforBestConferencePaperinEarlyDramaStudiesbyaGraduateStudent
TheAlexandraJohnstonAwardisforthebestconferencepaperinearlydramastudiesbyagraduatestudent.The committeewillconsideranypresentationgivenwithintwelvemonthsofthedeadlineandjudgedtobeof outstandingquality.Winnersreceive$250USDaswellasaone-yearmembershiptotheMRDSand ROMARD.
2022–2023Committee:DaisyBlack,MariahJunglanMin(chair),andKyleA.Thomas
WinneroftheJohnstonAward:ElenaGittleman.“‘Allheavenishisstage’:Theater,Performance,andArchitecture inHagiosGeorgios,Thessaloniki.”MRDS:PerformanceintheGlobalMiddleAgesatICMS,Kalamazooin May2022.
Thecommitteefoundthistobeafascinatingpaperthatnotonlyoffersastrong,well-supportedargumentabout performancecultureinByzantium,butalsoopensthedooronconnectionsbetweenscholarsofearlyLatin dramaandtheGreekworldtotheEast.Gittlemanmakesthecompellingpointthatthescholarly assumptionof theByzantinerejectionoftheaterhasthusfarledthefieldtounderplayoroverlookevidenceofperformance cultures.However,Gittleman’suseofarchitectureandurbanplanningasevidentiary sourcematerialsteaches usthatthetracesofperformancecansurviveinunexpectedplaces.Wewerethoroughly convincedbyher centralprovocationthatthosewhosponsored,built,decorated,andworshippedinreligiousbuildingssuchas theHagiosGeorgiosmighthavehaddifferentattitudestowardstheaterfromthosewhopreachedinthem,and weappreciatedthepaper’slivelyreviewofthehistoryofperformanceinThessaloniki,aswellasthedeftness withwhichitnavigatesthecomplexlevelsofrole-playingandartificeinPhilemon’svita.Weenjoyed Gittleman’sworkverymuchandarethrilledtobeabletopresentherwiththeJohnstonAward.
1November1934,Canmore–3January2023,Canmore
ProfessorEmeritaJoAnnaDutkadiedon3January2023at1pmin Canmore,Alberta.Shewasanesteemedmedievalistand musicologist(BAandMAfromUniversityofAlberta;ARCTfrom theRoyalConservatoryofMusic,PhDUofToronto)andmuch morenotsoeasilylabelled.ShejoinedErindaleCollege(nowthe DepartmentofEnglishandDrama,UTM)in1974.Herresearch focusedonMedievalEnglishdrama,poetry,andmusic;children’s literature,especiallyoftheeighteenthcentury;andCanadian literatureandvisualart,especiallyfromWesternCanada.
HerpublicationsrangefromthescholarlyMusicintheEnglish MysteryPlays(1980)toKathleenDaly:CanmoreWorkings(1987) andSacredHeartChurch:ACentennialCelebration(1993).She hadbeeneditingtheRecordsofEarlyEnglishDrama(REED) volumeonNorwichto1540atthetimeofherdeath.Inhertrips backandforthbetweenCanmoreandToronto,shewasalways accompaniedbyboxesandboxesofmaterialonwhichshetriedto workforsomepartofeachday,despitethemountainscallingher name.Thespreadofresearchfindingswasliterallyawesome.Her finalconversationwithREEDabouttheongoingworkconsistedof adetailedupdate,acoupleofweeksbeforeherdeath,withSallyBethMacLean,whomadeherfeelsecureaboutthefutureofa projectJoAnnaknewshecouldnotfinish.
JoAnnalovedtoteach,andwasrecognizedwiththeprestigious OCUFATeachingAward.Herextensiveadministrativeserviceto theUniversityincludedthepositionsofAssociateDirector,PhD; ActingDirectoroftheGraduateDepartmentofEnglish;and AssociateChairofEnglishforErindaleCollege.Afterretirement, shecontinuedtoteachundergraduatespart-time,atTrinityCollege, whereshebecameaFellowandmemberoftheBoardofTrustees. ShealsotaughtContinuingStudiescoursesonvarioustopics,her favouritebeingNordicSagas,atopichermostlyadultstudents beggedfor.ShealsoservedontheBoardoftheOsborneCollection ofEarlyChildren’sBooks,TorontoPublicLibrary.
IwillmissJoAnnahugely,asI’msurewillallhermanyfriends, colleagues,andstudents.Weallhavemanydiversememoriesof her.AstheformereditoroftheREEDNewsletter,shetaughtme howtoeditajournal,whenItookoveraseditor,forwhichthe successofEarlyTheatre,nowaMcMasterjournal(1998continuing),isatributetoherwisdom.
HerfuneralwasheldonThursday,January19th,inCanmore.The funeralwasasshewantedittobe.Apianist,asinger,achoir,a requiemmass,witholdfriendsandneighboursinattendance.It wasaustere,lovelytohear,andverysimple–expressingJoAnna’s devoutwishes.
RemembrancebyHelenOstovich
RobertL.A.(Bob)Clark
RobertL.A.ClarkwasProfessorofFrenchintheDepartment ofModernLanguagesatKansasStateUniversity.He publishedbroadlyonmedievaltheater,devotionalpractices, andgender.WithClaireSponslerin New Literary History in 1997,hewroteapioneeringqueer-theorystudyofmedieval drama,“QueerPlay:TheCulturalWorkofCrossdressingin MedievalDrama.”
Hewastheco-editorwithKathleenAshleyofavolumeon MedievalConductpublishedbytheUniversityofMinnesota Pressin2001thathasbeenpraisedforits“engaging,exciting, andwellresearched”approach.Bobalsogenerouslyediteda lovingfestschriftforhisteacher,C.CliffordFlannigan,which wastitled The Ritual Life of Medieval Europe: Papers by and for C. Clifford Flannigan (volume52/53of ROMARD: ResearchonMedievalandRenaissanceDrama in2014).
Evenmoreimportantthanhisprofessionalaccomplishments werethepersonaltieshemadewithfriendsandcolleagues. ProfessorAshelysharedthefollowingremembrance. AnyonewhoworkedwithBob knewwhata convivialpersonhewas–howmuchheenjoyed mealswithagroupofhisgoodfriends(and acquaintancesabouttobecomegoodfriends).His Facebookpagealsotestifiesto alifeofsocializing acrosstheworld.GiveBobwine,goodfoodandthe company ofinterestingpeople,andhe’dbe completelyathomeanywhere!Ofcourse,as someonewhohasknownBobsince1985,I’ve benefittedmanytimesfromthosesocialoccasions. Wehadaregulargossipydinnerattheannual medievalcongressatKalamazoo,hevisitedusinour villagenearBeaune,Burgundy,everyyearwewere theredoingarchivalresearch,andtherewereother convivialgroupmealsatconferencesglobally.I couldgoon,butI’msureyoucanseehowmuchI havevaluedknowingBobasbothafriendand medievalcollaboratorthroughoutthepastnearly40 years.Thosewhoknewhimasteacherandcolleague willnodoubthavemanystoriestotellofBob’s contributionstotheirlivesandlearning.
BobClarkservedasMRDSVice-Presidentfrom2017to2019 andPresidentfrom2019to2021.
AveatqueVale,JoAnnandBob!
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