The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0499 Wednesday, 14 October 2009
From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Subject: Honoring Barbara Palmer
I was deeply saddened to learn of Barbara's passing and have exchanged
e-mails with Lysbeth about my affection for Barbara, who was always kind
to me and supportive of my work. I will miss her greatly, especially at
SAA luncheons and Blackfriars Conference dinners where I competed with
her many other friends to spend time with her during those meals.
The post mentions one way that those of us who loved her may honor her
-- by contributing to the endowment of a prize for best new essay in
early drama studies in her honor: the Barbara D. Palmer Award. This
prize was established to honor her "deep commitment to archival research
and its power to transform interpretation of early modern drama in its
historical context." Checks can be made payable to the University of
Toronto, and can be mailed to A.F. Johnston, REED, 150 Charles St. W.
No. 118, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K9, Canada. This award was announced on
SHAKSPER in May [http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2009/0271.html].
If I may be so bold as to suggest another way to honor her. Barbara was
passionate about performance and about the documentary evidence, no
matter how obscure or seemingly unimportant, that enriches our knowledge
of early English drama, minstrelsy, and public ceremonial in England,
Scotland, and Wales before 1642, the documentary evidence gathered for
the REED project. Those of us at the last Blackfriars Conference
remember the humorous "REEDing" presentation that was used to announce
an appeal for REED-USA, Inc. Those interested may wish to contribute to
REED-USA by credit card online at https://www.reed-usa.org/donate.php.
For more information, see
http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2007/0766.html and www.read-usa.org.
I for one will miss hearing Barbara tell us about the Welsh camel, the
Taunton (pronounced "tan-ton") summer pole, the Reverend Sir Tristram
Tyldesley ("Hoigh!"), and "A Sonnet on the Pittiful Burning of the Globe"
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