The Barbara D. Palmer Award
for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Archives Research
The Executive Committee of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
has established an annual Barbara D. Palmer Prize to honour our friend
and colleague Barbara Palmer,
retired Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, and
Scholar-in-Residence, Mary Baldwin College, MLitt/MFA Program.
Prof. Palmer is the author of The Early Art of the West Riding of
Yorkshire in the EDAM series (1990) and is currently editing the Records
of Early English Drama collections for Yorkshire
West Riding and Derbyshire. She has written a series of influential
articles on medieval and renaissance drama; one of her most recent,
‘Early Modern Mobility: Players, Payments, and
Patrons’, Shakespeare Quarterly 56.3 (2005), 259-305, won MRDS’s Martin
Stevens Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies in 2006. Her
research on the unique
manuscript of the Towneley plays and their associated documents
(‘Recycling “The Wakefield Cycle”: The Records’, Research Opportunities
in Renaissance Drama 61 (2002), 88-130) has
changed forever the way we view that collection of plays.
Barbara has been an outstanding contributor to Early Drama studies as a
scholar, teacher, mentor, and administrator. She brings meticulous
standards to her research and astute intelligence
and generous commitment to any organization she belongs to. She played a
foundational role in the early years of the Medieval and Renaissance
Drama Society and continues to participate
actively and annually in its sponsored sessions at Kalamazoo. At REED
she has been instrumental in reactivating the Executive Board and has
served as its Secretary since 2002. Previously
she selflessly spent weeks of detailed preparation as the applicant for
several major NEH grants for REED’s broader purposes and for the
collections of other editors. She continues to
contribute to and delight in original practice productions mounted by
the American Shakespeare Center at the Blackfriars Theatre, Staunton,VA,
and by Poculi Ludique Societas at
the University of Toronto.
To honour Prof. Palmer’s deep commitment to archival research and its
power to transform interpretation of early modern drama in its
historical context, the Executive Committee of the
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society has established a prize for the
best new essay in early drama studies based on original research using
published or unpublished records:
The Barbara D. Palmer Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama
Archives Research.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
The Barbara D. Palmer Award
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