The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0393 Saturday, 12 July 2008
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Date: Saturday, 12 Jul 2008 11:30:51 -0400
Subject: CFPs Medieval and Renaissance Drama Kalamazoo 09
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Four MRDS-sponsored sessions
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 2009
The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society invites abstracts for the following
four sessions to be held at International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo,
Michigan, May 7-10, 2009. One-page abstracts may be sent directly to the
individual organizers of each session, as identified below. Submission deadline
is September 15, 2008, but potential presenters are encouraged to submit
abstracts earlier.
1. Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance
As Chris Brooks suggests, the Renaissance inherited the Middle Ages both as a
material presence and as a complex of ideas and feelings-both real and
imaginary. This panel seeks papers that examine how Renaissance communities
constructed, evaluated, mythologized, or re-imagined the Middle Ages through
performance. Although dramatic texts offer us evidence of such cultural work,
this panel also invites papers that identify and analyze "medievalisms" in
staging practices, patronage, acting styles, design choices, and other
theatrical elements. Papers that address non-English contexts are welcome.
Organizer: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, Theatre Dept,
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2. Messengers & Advisors in Medieval Drama:
Medieval dramatic depictions of messengers and advisors invite scholarly inquiry
into many areas, including power and gender dynamics between a speaker and
his/her audience; the epistemological implications of the spoken and written
word; notions of space and movement in performance; and physical and verbal
interactions among the players, and between players and audience. Proposals
examining English and continental drama are welcome.
Organizer: Frank Napolitano, Dept of English, University of Connecticut,
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3. "Strictly Academic?": School and Learned Drama, Late-Medieval through
Renaissance
Many surviving early dramatic texts were produced in learned monastic settings,
by household chapel/choir school or grammar school masters, by university
students, or by post-graduate scholars such as those of the Christian Terence
movement (both on the Continent and in England). Thereafter, the famed
"University Wits" pioneered the commercial drama of the Elizabethan era and
performance in the law schools (Inns of Court) continued through the
Renaissance. Accordingly, early school and learned drama had an enormous
influence not just on the development of early theatre but on its very survival
and existence. For that reason, recent discoveries and approaches warrant
reexamination of the many traditions of academic drama.
Organizer: Bob Hornback, Dept of English, Oglethorpe U,
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4. The Material Culture of French Medieval Drama: In Memory of Graham Runnalls
As Alan Knight wrote in a review of one of Runnalls' books, "Since the work of
Petit de Julleville in the 1880s, no-one has contributed more to the study of
medieval French theatre history than Graham Runnalls." His work over more than
thirty years ranged from editions of play texts to studies of manuscript
typology and printing, and to his editorial work on archival materials about
production and staging. His death in January 2008 at the age of 70 has been
deeply felt by the Medieval Drama community, and it is fitting to honor him with
this session.
Organizer: Mario Longtin, Dept. of French, University of Western Ontario.
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Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Secretary/Treasurer
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