MedievalandRenaissanceDramaSocietyNewsletter Fall2022 Modern Language Association Convention January 5 - 8, 2023 – In-Person and Online San Francisco MLA
Please note that MLA 2023 will be partly in-person and partly online. Please also remember that the times will be Pacific Standard Time (PST).
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MRDS Sponsored Session
RaceinEarlyPerformance Session675. Sunday,8January2023 10:15AM-11:30AM
Sessionwillbeheldvirtuallyandrecorded. Presider: Maggie Solberg, Bowdoin College
Presentations
‘TheUntitledOthelloProject’:(In)VisibleWhitenessonthe ShakespeareanStage David Sterling Brown, Trinity College, CT
Race,Gender,andChildhoodinEnglishRenaissanceDrama
Urvashi Chakravarty, University of Toronto
‘ThisLetterLayNotHere,LastTurnWeMade’:Raceand Intertheatricalityin OsmondtheGreatTurk Shanelle Kim, Columbia University
JeanBodelandIbnDāniyāl:InterrogatingRaceontheGlobal MedievalStage Jesse Njus, Virginia Commonwealth University
Other MLA Medieval and Renaissance Drama Sessions of Interest
EarlyModernTransDrama(Discussion) Session30.Thursday,5January2023,12:00PM-1:15PM MosconeWest- 3004(Level3)
Presiders: Simone Chess, Wayne State U; Sawyer Kemp, U of Illinois, Urbana
Speakers
SimoneChess,WayneStateU
RhoChung,UofEdinburgh
MilesGrier,QueensC,CityU ofNewYork
SawyerKemp,UofIllinois,Urbana
VinNardizzi,UofBritishColumbia,Vancouver
Listings continue on the following pages.
Contents
MRDSMLASession
OtherMLASessionsofInterest
RecentPublications
ElectronicPublicationsandResources
REEDNews
RecentandForthcomingProductions
Inclusion,Collaboration,Generosity
LookingForward:IMCandICMS
MRDS2023 Awards:CallforNominations
MRDS2022 Awards
MRDSOfficersandCouncil Colophon
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OtherMLASessionsofInterest(Continued)
Maps,Borders,andMarlowe Session444.Saturday,7January2023,10:15AM-11:30AM
MosconeWest- 3004(Level3) Sponsoredby MarloweSocietyofAmerica Presider:LucyMunro,King’sCLondon
Presentations
‘TheWindThatBloweththeWorldBesides’:Merchant CapitalandCommunityinTheJewofMalta
Bernard Krumm, Stony Brook U, State U of New York
‘ThatTownThereShould BeTroy’:SpectacularFailurein Dido,QueenofCarthageandItsAntecedents
Andie Barrow, U of Wisconsin, Madison
FaustusenLaFrontera:CapitalismandColonialisminThe Roadto TamazunchaleandLosFaustinos Kathryn Vomero Santos, Trinity U
Forrelatedmaterial,visitwww.marlowesocietyofamerica.org
Translations,Exchanges,andAfterlives: EarlyModern FrenchandEnglishDrama Session566.Saturday,7January2023;3:30PM-4:45PM
MosconeWest- 3003(Level3) Presider: Hassan Melehy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Presentations
‘MonsieurJourdain,aChristianTurn’dTurk’:Decoding Molière’sTurkishCeremonythroughDaborne Toby Wikström, U of Iceland
FrenchEmbassyGossipandChapman’sFrenchPlays
Jessica Wolfe, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PaulScarroninEngland:TheBurlesqueandComedicProse FictioninRestorationComedy Alexander Brock, Princeton U
Race,Gender,andConsent intheGlobalEarlyModern Session611.Saturday,7January2023,5:15PM-6:30PM MosconeWest- 3003(Level3)
Speakers
KatAddis,NewYorkU
BernadetteAndrea,UofCalifornia,SantaBarbara UrvashiChakravarty,UofToronto NeddaMehdizadeh,UofCalifornia,LosAngeles KirstenMendoza,UofDayton SuFangNg,VirginiaTech
CorneshaTweede,ArizonaStateU,Tempe MiguelValerio,WashingtonUinSt.Louis
PerformanceandConversionintheNewWorld Session763.Sunday,8January2023,1:45PM- 3:00PM
MarriottMarquis-YerbaBuenaSalon13(LowerB2Level)
Presentations
TranslationPoliticsandJesuitMasculinityin theJesuitPlay Triumpho de los Sanctos (1578)
Stephanie Louise Kirk, Washington U in St. Louis InfernalTranslations:ComparingPortrayalsoftheDiabolical inColonialComedias
Caroline Egan, Northwestern U
OperaintheAndes:SanIgnaciodeLoyolaasanInstrument for ReligiousConversion Catalina Andrango-Walker, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.
MLAPapersofInterest
EarlyModernAffectiveEcologies:AirandAtmosphere Session155.Thursday,5January2023,7:00PM-8:15PM MarriottMarquis-YerbaBuenaSalon4(LowerB2Level)
EmbodyingtheVernacular:IntersectionsofTextuality andPerformanceinMingandQingFictionandDrama Session576.Saturday,7January2023,3:30PM-4:45PM
Presentations
TextualizedTancifor Performance:OnZhuSuxian’s Yulianhuan(LinkedRingsofJade) Li Guo, Utah State U
Gender,Space,andPerformanceofDesireinThePurpleFlute JingZhang,NewCofFlorida
Filiality,HumanAgency,andthePowerofWords:TheStory oftheFilialBeggarinFictionandDrama
Maria Franca Sibau, Emory U
TheSoundoftheSacred:Soundscape,Aesthetics,and PerformanceofGuanyinDrama Xiaosu Sun, Nanjing Normal U
Includes These Papers PiersBrown,KenyonC
To‘SharetheAir’:EarlyModernDrama’sFormal Atmospherics
Allison Deutermann, Baruch C, City U of New York
IntoThickAir:Affect,Artifice,andtheSupernaturalin Shakespeare’sAtmospherics
David Landreth, U of California, Berkeley
HumorandHumorlessnessbefore1900
Session45.Thursday,5January2023,1:45PM- 3:00PM MosconeWest- 3014(Level3)
Includes These Papers
‘WiththeHumorsOf’:DisabilityandEarlyModernDramatic Character
Katherine Schaap Williams, U of Toronto
FromCalibanto theClown:PerformingintheCollapseof RaceandColonization
Tim Reid, New York U
Books, General
PamelaBickleyandJennyStevens. Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre to YouTube.London: TheArdenShakespeare;London:Bloomsbury,2021.
TomBishop,AlexaAliceJoubin,andNataliaKhomenko, Editors. The Shakespearean International Yearbook. 18, Special Section, Soviet Shakespeare.NewYork,NY: Routledge,2021.
MichaelBlanding. North by Shakespeare: a Rogue Scholar’s Quest for The Truth Behind The Bard’s Work.NewYork: HachetteBooks,2021.
TimCarterandFrancescaFantappiè. Staging Euridice: Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:Cambridge UniversityPress,2021.
JohnDrakakis. Shakespeare’s Resources.Manchester: ManchesterUniversityPress2021.
RichardDutton. Mastering the Revels: The Regulation and Censorship of Early Modern Drama.Oxford;NewYork, NY:OxfordUniversityPress,2022.
WilliamE.EngelandGrantWilliams,Editors. Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs.Cham,Switzerland: PalgraveMacmillan,2022.
ValerieM.FazelandLouiseGeddes. The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis. NewYork,NY: Routledge,2022.
ErithJaffe-Berg. Jewish Theatre Making In Mantua, 15201650.Leeds:ArcHumanitiesPress,2022.
EmmaLipton. Cultures Of Witnessing: Law and The York Plays. Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2022.
AlexMacConochie. Staging Touch in Shakespeare’s England. Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2022.
AnetaMancewicz. Hamlet After Deconstruction.Cham, Switzerland:PalgraveMacmillan,2022.
CharlesMazouer. La transcendance dans le théâtre français Paris:HonoréChampion,2021.
MassimilianoMorini. Theatre Translation: Theory and Practice.London,UK;NewYork,NY:Bloomsbury Academic,2022.
Brian.Murdoch. The Fortunes of Everyman in TwentiethCentury German Drama War, Death, Morality.Rochester: Boydell&Brewer,2022.
NoémieNdiaye.ScriptsofBlackness:EarlyModern PerformanceCultureandtheMakingofRace.Universityof PennsylvaniaPress.
SarahOlive,UchimaruKohei,Adele.Lee,andRosalind Fielding. Shakespeare in East Asian Education.Cham: SpringerInternationalPublishing:Imprint:PalgravePivot, 2021.
JulieStonePeters. Law As Performance Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval,
and Early Modern Europe.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress USA,2022.
RichardRastall,with AndrewTaylor. Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England.Rochester:Boydell& Brewer,2023.
ChristineSchwanecke. A Narratology of Drama: Dramatic Storytelling in Theory, History, and Culture from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century.Berlin;Boston: DeGruyter,2022.
ErinSullivan. Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice.Cham:PalgraveMacmillan,2022.
RobertTittler. Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England.Rochester:Boydell&Brewer,2022.
WilliamN.West. Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England. Chicago: UniversityofChicagoPress,2021.
JeffreyR.Wilson. Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History Philadelphia:TempleUniversityPress,2022.
Books, Editions
LloydEdwardKermode,Editor.ChristopherMarlowe. The Jew of Malta: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism.New York,N.Y.:W.W.Norton&Company,2021.
Books, Anthologies, Essay Collections
MarkBayerandJosephNavitsky,Editors. Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States.NewYork, NY:Routledge,2022.
PartI-ShakespeareDuringtheCivilWars
HeidiCraig.CelebritySkulls.
RachelWillie.“IthoughtmybloodderivedaCrowntous,/ ButnowIfinditderivesonlyTreason”:Rememberingand ForgettingtheCivilWar.
MarkBayer.RichardGrantWhite,TheCivilWar,andthe FutureofAmericanShakespeareStudies.
JosephNavitsky.TheAmericanCivilWarandthe1864 TercentenaryofShakespeare’sBirth.
DarlenaCiraulo.OutlawShakespeare:FrankJamesandPostCivilWarJustice.
PartII--Shakespeareand DomesticDisturbance
MatthewKendrick.Shakespeare,CulturalProduction,and ClassConsciousnessinAntebellumNewYorkCity:ReexaminingtheAstorPlaceRiot.
JessHamlet.“AsbountifulasminesofIndia”:Shakespeareas IndiaandtheFirstWarofIndianIndependence,1857-1889.
JohnMilam.AMostCivilDiscourse:JacobGordin’s The Jewish King Lear andtheJewish-AmericanImmigrant Community.
RobertSawyer.“TheArtistMustTakeSides”:PaulRobeson andCivilUnrest.
JeanetteNguyenTran.The$64,000Question:WhatCan FrancesDeBerrytellusaboutShakespeareScholarshipin CivilRightsEraAmerica?
MarySteible.The“cockleofrebellion”: Coriolanus During theVietnamEra.
Epilogue
SharonO’Dair.“SeaChanges”:CivilUnrestinShakespeare StudiesandBeyond.
MonicaMattfeldandKarenRaber,Editors. Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater.UniversityPark,PA: PennStateUniversityPress,2022.
KarenRaber.AnimalsattheTable:PerformingMeatinEarly ModernEnglandandEurope.
PiaF.Cuneo.Intra-ActivePerformativity:Rethinkingthe EarlyModernEquestrianPortrait.
RichardNash.PastPerformances:Gleaningsfromthe ArchivesAboutEarlyModernEquineAthletic Performance.
MonicaMattfeld.“ISeeThemGalloping!”:War,Affect,and PerformingHorsesinMatthewLewis’s Timour theTartar.
RobWakeman.PeaceableKingdom:ThePlaceoftheDogat theNativityScene.
SarahE.Parker.PerformingPain:TheSufferingAnimalin EarlyModernExperiment.
JessicaWolfe. Circus Minimus:TheEarlyModernTheaterof Insects.
ToddAndrewBorlik.Shakespeare’sInsectTheater:Fairy LoreasElizabethanFolk Entomology.
KariWeil.MissMazeppaandtheHorsewithNoName.
KimMarra. HorsesQueertheStageandSocietyof Shenandoah.
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.’
SylvieLaigneau-Fontaine. Le théâtre néo-latin en France au XVIe siècle: études et anthologie.Genève:Droz,2021.
Pt.1.Etudes
1.Unthéâtrevernaculaireenlatin?
JelleKoopmans.Lascènelatinecommelieudedébatet commelieudecombat.
JohnNassichuk.La“tragédie”delacrucifixionchez QuinzianoStoaetNicolasBarthélemydeLoches. EstelleDoudet.Moralitésetthéâtrevernaculaireenlatin. AutourdeJ.RavisiusTextor. NathaëlIstasse.DelaréceptioneuropéennedesDialogi (1530)deJ.RavisiusTextor.
2.Renaissancesdelacomédie MathieuFerrand.Lacomédiedanslescollègesparisiens: questionsdevocabulaire,définitiond’uncorpus. MathieuFerrand.LaComoediadeJeanCalmusetsesmodèles (Paris,1544,1552).
JanBloemendal.UnecomédiebibliquedesPays-Baspubliée enFrance:l’éditioncommentéedel’Acolastus(Guilielmus Gnapheus,1529)parGabrielDupreau(Paris,1554).
3.Les“maîtres”:Marc-AntoineMuretetGeorgeBuchanan. VirginieLeroux.Tragique,admirationeteschatologie:le modèleduJuliusCaesardeMarc-AntoineMuret. NathalieCatellanietCarineFerradou.GeorgeBuchanan, modèleduthéâtrehumanistefrançais. EmmanuelBuron.SchèmestragiqueschezMuret,Buchanan etJodelle.
4.Tragédiesdecollège JohnNassichuk.Untragiqueexemplaire,oulamoralitédu pouvoirdansl’AmandeClaudeRoillet.
NinaHugot.“Quiscredat?”L’incroyableamourdePhilanira (ClaudeRoillet,1556).
ÉricSyssau.LatragédieaucollègedeNavarre(1557-1558).
5.Auxconfinsdesgenreset/oudusiècle SylvieLaigneau-FontaineetCatherineLanglois-Pézeret.La Susanna(1571)dudijonnaisCharlesGodran.
MoniqueMund-Dopchie.LeParabataVinctusdeJacquesAugustedeThou:tragédieantiqueetbiblique.
MargauxDusausoit.Tragédieprétexteetactualitépolitique: AlexanderSeverus(1600)deFédéricMorel.
Pt.2.Anthologie
QuinzianoStoa. Theoandrothanatos (1514).
JoannesRavisiusTextor. Dialogi (1530).
Dialogus super abolitione pracmaticae sanctionis (c.1518). NicolasBarthélémy deLoches. Christus Xilonicus (1529). Comoedia Lipocorduli (1533).
Dialogus longe facetissimus de temporum ac scientiarum mutatione (c.1533).
Marc-AntoineMuret. Julius Caesar (1552).
GeorgeBuchanan. Medea (1544).
GeorgeBuchanan. Iephthes sive Votum (1554).
GeorgeBuchanan. Baptistes sive Calumnia (1577).
JeanCalmus. Comoedia (1552).
ClaudeJamin. Arcaiozelotipia (1554).
ClaudeRoillet. Aman (1556).
ClaudeRoillet. Petrus (1556).
AbelSouris. De sinistro fato Gallorumapud Veromanduos (1557).
JeanRose. Chilpericus (1557ou1558).
JeanRoseetAlii.[Antonius](1557ou1558).
CharlesGodran. Susanna (1571).
Jacques-AugusteDeThou. Parabata vinctus (1595).
FédéricIIMorel. Alexander Severus (1600).
HarukaOba,AkihikoWatanabe,andFlorianSchaffenrath, Editors. Japan on the Jesuit Stage: Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts.Leiden;Boston:Brill,2022.
Part1:Preliminaries
MariaMaciejewska,HarukaOba,FlorianSchaffenrathand AkihikoWatanabe.Introduction.
PatrickReinhartSchwemmer.FoundinTranslation:The JesuitJapanLettersasaSourceofEarlyModern European ImagesofJapan.
MirjamDopier. Christianomachia Iaponensis:TheJapanese MartyronStage.
Part2:GeographicalOverviews
HitomiOmataRappo.JapaneseMartyrsinFrenchJesuit Drama(LateSeventeenth–EarlyEighteenthCentury): BetweenViolenceandBienséance.
NicholasDeSutterandJoranProot.TitusIaponontheJesuit StageintheProvinciaFlandro-Belgica:Neo-Latin IntertextualityandtheEconomicsofJesuitDrama.
KateřinaBobková-ValentováandMagdalénaJacková.Japan andtheJapaneseinJesuitSchoolPlaysfromtheBohemian ProvinceoftheSocietyofJesus.
NinaČengićandNevenJovanović.TracesofJapanin CroatianLatinSchoolDrama,1600–1800.
MonikaMiazek-Męczyńska.NotOnlyTitustheJapanese: JapanandtheJapanese ontheJesuitStageinthePolishLithuanianCommonwealthintheSeventeenthand EighteenthCenturies.
JustynaŁukaszewska-Haberkowa.EarlyChristianJapanese SourcesofJesuitTheaterinthePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Part3:CaseStudies
MargaridaMiranda.MajestyandSilence:AnHonorable,Bald OldManNamedJapan.
HarukaOba.TheDevelopmentofJesuitDramaonJapanin Bavaria:TheHistoricalContextofthePlayVictor,Staged inMunichin1665.
AkihikoWatanabe.TheJapaneseSenexIratus:TheMunich VictorPlay.
KarenRaberandHollyDugan,Editors. The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare And Animals.NewYork,NY: Routledge,2021
Part1.AnimalMetaphors:History,Theory,Representation
RebeccaAnnBach,AvianShakespeare.
DanielBrayton,Shakespeare’sFishponds:Matter,Metaphor, andMarket.
BryanAlkemeyer,‘Iamthedog’:CanineAbjection,Species Reversal,andMisanthropicSatire in Two Gentlemen of Verona
CrystalBartolovich,LearningfromCrab:Primitive Accumulation,Migration,SpeciesBeing.KarlSteel,Animal
BehaviorandMetaphor,inShakespeareandHisFellow Dramatists.
Part2.ScalesofMeaning
IanMacInnes,Cow-CrossLaneandCurriersRow:Animal Networksin EarlyModernEngland.
BenjaminBertram,‘Everythingexistsbystrife’:Warand CreaturelyViolenceinShakespeare’sLate Tragedies.
LucindaCole,ZoonoticShakespeare:Animals,Plagues,and theMedicalPosthumanities.
JosephCampana,Flock,Herd,Swarm:AShakespearean LexiconofCreaturelyCollectivity.
Part3.AnimalWorlds/AnimalLanguage
KeithBotelho,SwarmLife:Shakespeare’sSchoolofInsects. NicoleJacobs,‘WheretheBeeSucks’:BernardianEcology andthePost-ReformationAnimal.
LizaBlakeandKathrynVomeroSantos,WhatDoestheWolf Say?:WolvishTonguesand AnimalLanguagein Coriolanus
BruceBoehrer,ShrewdShakespeare
Part4.Training,Performance,andLivingwithAnimals.
ElspethGraham,TheTrainingRelationship:horses,hawks, dogs,bearsandhumans.
ToddBorlik,Performing The Winter’s Tale inthe‘Open’: BearPlays,Skinners’ Pageants,andtheEarlyModernFur Trade.
JulianYates,CountingShakespeare’sSheepwith The Second Shepherd’s Play
LaurieShannon,SillyCreatures: King Lear (withSheep).
Part5.AnimalBoundariesandIdentities
NicoleMennell,TheLionKing:Shakespeare’sBeastly Sovereigns.
JenniferReid,‘WearingtheHorn’:ClassandCommunityin theShakespeareanHunt.
StevenSwarbrick,OnEating--theAnimalThatThereforeI Am:RaceandAnimalRitesin Titus Andronicus RobWakeman,‘What’sthis?what’sthis?’:Stockfishand PiscineSexualityin Measure for Measure
KarenRaber,MyPalfrey,Myself:TowardaQueer PhenomenologyoftheHorse-HumanBondin Henry V and Beyond.
EricaFudge,‘Forgiveness,horse’:TheBarbaricWorldof Richard II
KlausRidder,BeatricevonLüpke,andMichaelNeumaier, Editors. Religiöses Wissen im mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Schauspiel (Religious Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Drama).Berlin:Schwabe Verlag,2021.
KlausRidder,BeatricevonLüpke,MichaelNeumaier. ReligiösesWissenimmittelalterlichenund frühneuzeitlichenSchauspiel.
PaolaVentrone.Theatre,ReligionandPropaganda:The Performancesforthe1439EcumenicalCouncilinFlorence.
KlausWolf.ÜberlegungenzumhochgeloptenMachmetauf derspätmittelalterlichenBühne:dasBilddesIslamim AugsburgerGeorgsspiel,imFrankfurterPassionsspielund imTürkenfastnachtspiel.
CoraDiet.VomFastnachtschwankzumBibeldrama.Hansvon RütesBernerSpielewiderden“abgöttischen”Heiligenkult.
KlausRidder,DarwinSmith.Deconstruirel’inquisiteur:deux farcesdeMargueritedeNavarreetdeHansSachs.
HansRudolfVelten.TyranneiundgutesRegiment:zur AktualisierungalttestamentlicherHerrschaftin ausgewähltenTragödienvonHansSachs.
HeidyGreco-Kaufmann.WeltlicheFreudenimBannkreisder letztenvierDinge:RenwardCysatsTragicocomediConvivii Process(1593).
UlrichBarton.Curdeushomo?Dramatisierungender christlichenErlösungslehreimgeistlichenSpiel.
GlennEhrstine.DasgeistlicheSpielalsAblassmedium: ÜberlegungenamBeispieldesAlsfelderPassionsspiels.
BeatricevonLüpke.BiblischeErzählungundweltlichesSpiel: dasSalomonischeUrteilin zweiNürnberger Fastnachtspielendes15.Jahrhunderts.
BrunoQuast.EntscheidungimParadies:überAdamundEva inderTragediavonSchöpfung,falundaußtreibungAde außdemparadeyß(1548) desHansSachs.
JuttaEming.FiguraundTypologie:amBeispieldesLuzerner unddesHeidelbergerPassionsspiels.
CarlaDauven-vanKnippenberg.Subjektivierungreligiöser Wissensvermittlung.JanMohr,JuliaStenzel.
ArbeitamVerräter:zurJudasfigurindenTextfassungenund derIkonographiedesOberammergauerPassionsspiels.
Articles and Chapters
RobertW.Barrett,Jr.,andElizabethOyler.“MedievalDrama, EastandWest.”In Teaching the Global Middle Ages GeraldineHeng,Editor.NewYork:ModernLanguage AssociationofAmerica2022
MadsLarsen.“StagingtheMarketMechanismsofMedieval MatinginDenutrohustru.” Comparative Drama.Volume 56,Issue3(2022)Fall.
RichardRastell.“Civicminstrelsin latemedievalEngland: newlightondutiesandcareers”inthe Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 52(2021).
Articles, Selected Journals
BenJonsonJournal
SeniorEditor,RobertC.Evans Volume29,Issue2,November,2022
AnupamBasu. “Whatdoyoulack?Whatis’tyoubuy?”: CommodityandCommunityin Bartholomew Fair EdwinWong.Hamlet,Fortinbras,andtheTimeValueofRisk inShakespeare’sElsinore.
JamesHirsh.TheConventionofSelf-AddressedSpeechin Shakespeare’sPlays:NewEmpiricalData. LeenVerheyen.Literature,Truth,andKnowledge.
ELH
SeniorEditor,ChristopherNealon Volume89,Number4,Winter2022
MaryNyquist.Tyrannicide,Law,andSacrificein Julius Caesar.
NinaLevine.MediatingtheOldNewMedia:BenJonson’s News.
Volume89,Number3,Fall2022
MichaelLindMenna.Tamburlaine,“Mexía,”andMore IntertextualSourceStudy.
GabrielLonsberry. The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale,and DramaticAbsolutismontheStuartCourtStage.
EarlyTheatre
Editors,MelindaJ.Gough,ErinE.Kelly Vol.25No.2(2022)
Articles
AgnesMatuska. ‘Pretieconveyance’: Jack Juggler and the IdeaofPlay.
AdrianBlamires.TheInconvenienceofStagePosts:Green WorldLocalesattheRoseTheatre.
JaneWanninger. ‘RiddlingShrift’:Confession,Speech,and PowerinRomeoandJulietand ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore BradleyIrish.Envy,Leanness,andShakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Note
ThomasMatthewVozar.AlcaicsonRestorationActressesby theCambridgeClassicalScholarJamesDuport.
Review Essays
VanessaI.Corredera.PremodernCriticalRaceStudiesandthe QuestionofHistory.
Issues in Review Essays
ElizabethTavares,LaurieJohnson.Introduction:Repertory, Dramaturgy,andEmbodiment.
EmilyMacLeod.‘YoushallseemedotheMoor’:The BlackfriarsChildrenandthePerformanceofRacein Poetaster.
RobertaBarker.Birth ofaTragedyQueen:RichardRobinson andtheRepertoryoftheKing’sMen,1610-11.
PeterKirwan.ArtistDevelopmentandCollectiveTherapyin theRepertory:TheCaseofAfterEdward.
CatrionaFallow.NewWorkInandBeyondRepertoryatthe RoyalShakespeareCompanyandShakespeare’sGlobe.
EnglishLiteraryRenaissance
Coeditors:JosephBlack,MaryThomasCrane,Jane HwangDegenhardt,andAdam Zucker
Volume53Number1Winter2023
SimonSmith.ApproachingPlayhouseSongintheArchive: TheCaseofDekker,Ford,Middleton,andRowley’s The Spanish Gypsy
Volume53Number3Fall2022
UrvashiChakravarty.Fictionsof Race:Racecraft, Reproduction,andWhitenessin Titus Andronicus. JulieOrlemanski.ContestingFictioninGavinDouglas’ Eneados
WendyBethHyman. “BeyondBeyond”: Cymbeline,the CameraObscura,andtheOntologyofElsewhere.
JennyC.Mann. “FramedinWax”:FictionasArtificial Experiencein The Duchess of Malfi.
SuparnaRoychoudhury.Artlikeness:Enargeia,Imagination, andtheEnliveningofShakespeare’sHero.
JenniferWaldron.ThePoliticsofScaleinShakespeare’s Henry V:Fiction,History,Theater.
JournalofMedievalandEarlyModernStudies
Editors,DavidAersandSarahBeckwith Volume52,Issue3,September1,2022
JasonCrawford.Shakespeare’sComedyofJudgment. LindseyLarre. “DoPoor TomSomeCharity”:Performing Povertyand Pityin King Lear JuliaReinhardLupton. “GoodinEveryThing”:Erasmusand CommunalVirtuein As You Like It
MedievalandRenaissanceDramainEngland
Editor,S.P.Cerasano Volume35,2022
PeterBerek.BenJonsonandthePublicSphere. JohnPitcher. WhotoldonSamuelDaniel?RobertCecil,Ben Jonson,andtheNon-Scandalof The Tragedy of Philotas FranTeague.Plagues,Plays,andPictures.
SteveRoth.Jonson’sBeardandShakespeare’sPurge: Hamlet, Parnassus,andthePoet’sWar.
DouglasArrell.Heywood’sAgesand The Tempest. PeterKrause.“SubjecttoaTyrant,Sorcerer”:AHyperIntuitiveReadingof The Tempest.
DavidM.Bergeron. Timon of Athens,theAbsentMercer,and NothingPoet:“Toth’dumbnessofthegesture/Onemight interpret.”(1.1.33-34).
GregoryW.Sargent.CityWalls,Borders,Boundaries: Coriolanus andAffectivePoliticalEngagement.
RenaissanceDrama
Editors: JeffreyMastenandWilliam N.West Volume50,Number1Spring2022
MarjorieGarber.MousetraporHoneyTrap?Genre, Counterplot,andHamlet’sLover’sComplaint.
KentLehnhof.BodiesandVoicesin Coriolanus.
ToriaJohnson.CalibanattheFair:FiguringNonhumanityin The Tempest and Bartholomew Fair.
MartinMoraw.ContradictionandAllegorization:Middleton’s A Game at Chess andAlthusser’sTheatricalThought. DouglasClark.TheWillandTestamentinEnglish RenaissanceDrama:PaperProps,Property,andUlpian Fulwell’s Like Will to Like
ASTRPresidentialAddress
TheatreSurveyhaspublisheda revisedversionofMarlaCarlson’s 2021PresidentialAddressforthe AmericanSocietyforTheatre Research.Withinitsanalysisof contemporarytheatreandthe COVID-10pandemic,“Blindness, Excrement,andAbjectioninthe Theatre”containsthekernelof her ongoingresearchondisabilityinmedievalandearly modernFrenchfarceand isavailableopenaccessat https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000345.
REEDTHIS!
REEDTHIS!,JohnA.Geck’s“blogabout theRecordsofEarlyEnglishDrama project”(https://reedproject.blog/)continues withaneye-opening“‘Oyesoverensthat syttandyebrothernthatstonderyghtuppe’ and‘ffromyehighestvntoyelowest degree’:PerformativePeacemakingin CambridgeshireduringtheWarsoftheRoses,”concerningthe 15thcenturytextofBishopJohnMorton’sinstallationfeast alongsidetheplaysof Wisdom and Mankind.
ThesitealsocontainslinkstoREED’sothersites,essentialto earlyEnglishdramascholarship:REEDOnline (https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/);REEDPatronsand Performances(https://library2.utm.utoronto.ca/otra/reed/);REED London(https://cwrc.ca/reed);andtheREEDPre-Publication Collections(https://reedprepub.org/);aswellasEarlyModern LondonTheatres,orEMLoT(https://emlot.library.utoronto.ca/), whichisacollaborationbetweentheRecordsofEarlyEnglish Drama(REED)attheUniversityofToronto,theDepartmentof DigitalHumanities(DDH)atKing’sCollegeLondon,andthe DepartmentofEnglishattheUniversityofSouthampton.
TheHenslowe-AlleynDigitisationProject
GraceIoppolo, ProfessorEmerita,and formerlyProfessorof Shakespeareanand EarlyModernDrama, attheUniversityofReading,hasrecentlyuploadedstolen HensloweDiaryfragmentsandotheritemstoherwebsite, thusvirtuallyreunitingtheHenslowe-Alleyntheatrehistory archiveafter200years.Readheraccount,postedon The Conversation,athttps://theconversation.com/how-i-reunitedthe-most-important-documents-in-english-theatre-history-forthe-first-time-in-200-years-189811.
Viewthenewlyuploadedimagesoffragmentsandat https://henslowe-alleyn.org.uk/catalogue/miscellaneousimages/;andvariousrelateddocumentsathttps://henslowealleyn.org.uk/catalogue/miscellaneous-correspondence-legaland-other-documents/.
EarlyModernBritishPainters,c.1500-1640
Thisdatabase,begunin2015andupdated regularly,ismaintainedbyRobertTittler, DistinguishedProfessorofHistoryEmeritusat ConcordiaUniversity,Montreal,andFellowof theRoyalSocietyofCanada.
“Thisresourceidentifiesallthosemenandwomenwhohave beenidentifiedaspaintersofanysortworkinginEngland, Wales,ScotlandorIrelandbetweentheyears1500and1640” (Fromthesite).
Visithttps://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/980096/.
REED: Cambridgeshire,ed. JohnA.Geck,Launched!
TheRecordsofEarly EnglishDramaisdelightedto announcetheopenaccesspublicationofaneweditioninthe REEDseries.ThefirstEastAnglianregionalcollectionof medievalandrenaissancedramaticrecords,for Cambridgeshire,editedbyJohnA.Geck,isnowavailableon REED Online (https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca).
Withrecords extendingfromthe 1350sto1641,and encompassingall mannerofperformance record–fromtravelling playersandminstrelsto parochialentertainment tolavishspectacle–REED Cambridgeshire establishesdefinitively thecounty'splaceintheannalsofperformancehistory, beyondthetraditionalboundsofthetownanduniversity.
WithabulkofrecordscentredaroundtheReformation,the documentsrevealacountythatmaintainedaresistanceto radicalpuritanismandpersistedintraditionsoftown activities,radicalleaningsoftownandgownnotwithstanding. TherecordsalsoreinforceEly'scentralityasanalternate hub ofcontrol;withdocumentaryevidencesurvivingfromthe householdaccountsofbishopsofEly,thediocese,andthe King’sSchoolatEly.TheKing’sSchoolatEly,established aftertheDissolution,alsogivessomeevidenceofschool dramaintheearlyseventeenthcentury,bywayofan accusationthattheschoolhosteddancinglateintothenight, andwhichinvolved cross-dressing.
BeyondEly,evidenceforCambridgeshire'snoble households,asrepresentedbytheNorthof Kirtlingaccounts showthatSirJohnNorthnotonlypatronizedafoolandpaid for lessonsonthelute,butalsoregularlypaidfor performancesbyprofessionalplayers.
LocalentertainmentsfeatureintheaccountsoftheHoly TrinityguildatWisbech,whichheldanannualdinnerinMayor Junethroughmuchofthefourteenthandfifteenthcenturies.In thelatersixteenthcentury,thechurchwardensofStMary’s, Linton,coordinatedaplayingspaceinLinton’sTownhouse.The churchwardens’accountsofStLeonard’s,Leverington,dating fromthemid-sixteenthcentury,revealregularpaymentsto travellingperformersfromnearbyWisbech,aswellasother townsinothercounties.Themostdetailedrecords,however,are foundinthechurchwardens’accountsofStsPeterandPaulin Bassingbourn,whichshowaboutthirtyyearsofregularchurch ales,celebrationofHocktide,andmostsignificantly,aplayofSt GeorgeonthefeastofStMargaret,towhichtwenty-eight surroundingparishesandtownshipscontributed.
JohnA.GeckisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentof EnglishattheMemorialUniversityofNewfoundland,Canada. (CopyofREED’sAnnouncement.)
TheRudeMechanicals
ShepherdUniversity’sRude Mechanicalsperformed Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale November4-13. Theywillbe performing The Second Shepherds’ Play March31-April8,2023.
TheRudeMechanicalsMedievalandRenaissancePlayersof ShepherdUniversityaredirectedbyDr.BettyEllzey.
OxfordProduction
Ifit’snottoo late,proposeaproductionfor theOxfordMedievalMysteryPlayson22 April2023. They“arekeentocoverawide varietyof(medieval) languages,butyou don’thavetobeatheatreprofessionalor evenamedievalist–allyouneedislotsof enthusiasmforwhatisaboveallafunand uniqueexperience.”Forfulldetails,visit https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2022/10/24/propose-a-play-for-themedieval-mystery-cycle/;orcontactMichaelAngererat michael.angerer@ccc.ox.ac.uk.
MostlyMedievalTheatreFestival
Foundedin2017,theMostlyMedieval TheatreFestival(MMTF)isa performancefestivalshowcasingand invigoratingtheglobalheritageofdrama, music,danceandperformancestylesfrom lateantiquity throughtheRenaissance.To relaunchtheMMTFin2023,founderand associateprofessoroftheatreLofty Durhamhasdesignedaspecialcoursethat culminatesinthecreationofatraveling ensembleofplayers—studentsinthe DepartmentofTheatreatWesternMichiganUniversity—who willpresentarotatingrepertoireofshortperformancesat varioustimesandinvariousplacesthroughouttheCongress. Keepaneyeoutforthese enthusiasticandtalentedstudents, andbesuretocatchSuzanneSavoy'sperformancesof ChristinedePizan's"TaleofPoissy"!(FromtheICMSSite).
Christine dePizan's"TaleofPoissy"
SuzanneSavoyrecitesexcerptsofChristinedePizan's"Tale ofPoissy"inEnglish.
Friday,May12
11:30a.m.,FetzerLobby/Atrium/Patio
5:30p.m.,Valley3
Saturday,May13
11:30a.m.,FetzerLobby/Atrium/Patio
Inclusion,Collaboration,Generosity
DisabilityandPerformance
CameronMcNabbdiscusseswithherfellowACMRSresident SawyerKempvariousaspectsofdisabilityinrelationshipto performanceinMedievalandRenaissancedrama. Viewthe entirediscussionandreadtheirnotesoninclusivetheatrical practicehere:ACMRSSundial.
CallforDigitalImages
GailMcMurrayGibson,ProfessorEmeritaatDavidsonCollege, hassuggestedthatMRDSmemberscollectandshareimages frompastproductions. Thisisstillonlyanideaatthispoint.If thereisenoughinterestintheproject,GerardNeCastrowill initiatetheeffort. Ifyouhaveimages,digitalornot,orother similarresourcesthatyouwouldliketoshare,pleasenotify GerardNeCastroatgerard.necastro@westliberty.edu.
Yes,thoseareProfessorGibson’spicturesabove,andshehas manymore. Ifyouareinterestedinusingsomeofthem,please contactheratgagibson@davidson.edu.
RORD&ROMARDGiveaway
MaryErlerisofferinga completerunofthe journalResearch
OpportunitiesinRenaissance Drama(RORD),30fascicles, fromvol.XXI(1978)tovol.XLIX(2010)withvolL finishingtheseriesasthefirstnumberofResearchon MedievalandRenaissanceDrama(ROMARD)in2011. Subscriberswillrememberthatthesearepaperbackvolumes hencetheshelfspacetheyoccupyisnotlarge,onlyabouta foot,andpostage(USPSMediaMail)willbemodestandcan beshared.Offersfromlibrariesorcentersarepreferred,but individualsarewelcometoo.Writetoerler@fordham.edu.
LookingForward:MRDSat IMCandICMS
LeedsInternationalMedievalCongress 3-6July2023
The2023IMCwillinclude bothin-personandvirtual sessions. MRDSwill sponsorthefollowingsession.
PerformingPremodernDisability:Disabilityin Performance,DisabilityasPerformance(Session1642), Thursday06July2023,11.15-12.45Format:InPerson Organiser: Mark Chambers, Durham University
Moderator: Diana Wyatt, Durham University
DisabilityinPerformanceintheRecordsfromMedieval Durham:TheCaseofMasterNicholasofYork Mark Campbell Chambers, Durham University BlindnessandBodyWasteinMedievalFrenchFarce Language
Marla Carlson, University of Georgia
TheStagingofBodilyDevianceinLeadingRolesinSpanish GoldenAgeComedia
Pablo García Piñar, University of Chicago
Formoreinformation,pleasevisithttps://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/.
The58th InternationalCongressforMedievalStudies May11-13,2023
The2022ICMSwillbeinahybrid format. Fulldetailson MRDSsessionsandmorewillbeavailableintheSpring2022 newsletter. Pleaseseebelowalistofoursessions.Formore information,visithttps://wmich.edu/medievalcongress.
Players/Playing/Ensembles:A SessioninHonorof Clifford Davidson.Organizer,LoftyDurham.
TheAudiencesofEarlyDrama/FestivePerformance. Organizer:CarolynCoulson.
NewVoicesinEarlyDrama.Organizer:MaggieSolberg.
ROMARDSession.KyleA.Thomas.
MRDS2023Awards
CallforNominations
Annualawardsgiventorecognizeachievementinpublication,conferencepresentation,andarchivesresearchinthe fieldofearlydramastudies.
Foranessayorbook publishedinthe18monthsbeforeJanuary30,2023:
MartinStevensAwardforbestnewessayin early drama studies($250award+one-yearmembershipin MRDS)
BarbaraPalmerAwardforbestnewessayinearlydramaarchivalresearch($250award+one-year membershipinMRDS)
DavidBevingtonAwardfor bestnewbookinearlydramastudies(non-Shakespearean,noeditedvolumes) ($500award+two-yearmembershipinMRDS)
Foraconferencepaperpresentedinthe12monthsbeforeJanuary30,2023:
AlexandraJohnstonAwardforbestconferencepaperinearlydramastudiesbyagraduatestudent($250 award+one-yearmembershipin MRDS)
EntryInformation
Deadlinefornominations:January30,2023
Eligibility:AllMRDSmembersandnon-members
TheJudges:EachcategoryofsubmissionsisjudgedbycommitteesmadeupofmembersoftheMRDSExecutive Council.
Submissions:Forfullinformationonsubmissions,pleasevisittheMRDSsiteathttp://themrds.org/awards.
Announcement ofAwardWinners
AwardsannouncementandpresentationwilltakeplaceduringtheannualMRDSbusinessmeetinginMay2023,at the58th InternationalCongressonMedievalStudies,WesternMichiganUniversity,Kalamazoo,Michigan.
2022MRDSAwards
Forafulldescription,includingcitations,oftheawards,pleaseseetheSpring2022newsletter.
2022BevingtonAwardforBestNewBook
Winner:NeridaNewbigin.MakingaPlayforGod:TheSacreRappresentazioniofRenaissanceFlorence.2vols. Toronto:CentreforRenaissanceandReformationStudies,2021.
HonorableMention:KatherineSchaapWilliams.UnfixableForms:Disability,Performance,andtheEarly ModernEnglishTheater.Ithaca,NY:CornellUniversityPress,2021.
2022PalmerAwardforBestNewEssayinEarlyDramaArchivalResearch
Winner:SarahMayo.“‘Printedfollyes’:MountebanksandthePerformanceofAmbivalencewithintheArchive.” JournalofMedievalandEarlyModernStudies51,no.3(2021).
HonorableMention:UrvashiChakravarty.“WhatIstheHistoryofActorsofColorPerforminginShakespeareinthe UK?”InTheCambridgeCompaniontoShakespeareandRace,editedbyAyannaThompson,190–207.
Cambridge,UK:CambridgeUniversityPress,2021.
2022StevensAwardforBestNewEssayinEarlyDramaStudies
Winner:KirstenMendoza.“‘Thoumaiestinforcemybodybutnotmee’:RacializingConsentinJohnMarston’s TheWonderofWomen.”RenaissanceDramavol.49.1(2021):29–55.
Honorablemention:AngelaVanhaelen.“Turnings:MotionandEmotionintheLabyrinthsofEarlyModern Amsterdam.”InPerformingConversion:Cities,TheatreandEarlyModernTransformations,ed.byJoséR. Jouve-MartínandStephenWittek,35–61.Edinburgh,UK:EdinburghUniversityPress,2021.
2022JohnstonAwardforBestConferencePaperinEarlyDramaStudiesbyaGraduateStudent
Winner:HanhBui.“SycoraxandtheAnatomiesofOldAge.”BritishShakespeareAssociationConference,Surrey, England,July2021.
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Fall2022MRDSNewsletter
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