Here is a conference announcement from PERFORM I thought might be of
interest to the list.
Abigail
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> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 11:56:00 EST
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> Subject: Medieval Theatre Conference
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> I was just about to post an announcement of our upcoming conference on
> medieval theatre, when Bob Clark beat me to it. I'm glad to know the
> news is getting around. Here is some supplemental information on the
> conference.
>
> --Alan Knight (aek@psuvm), Penn State University
>
>
> THE STAGE AS MIRROR:
> CIVIC THEATRE IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE
>
> An International Conference
> to be held at
> The Pennsylvania State University
> March 25-27, 1993
>
> The conference will explore the function of late medieval
> theatre in England, France, and The Netherlands, examining the
> relationships among these three countries as reflected in late
> medieval civic spectacles. There will be performances of plays
> from N-Town and from Lille and a workshop on medieval theatre,
> involving a German play of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. There
> will also be a medieval banquet, followed by a performance of
> the Lille _Susannah and the Elders_. The speakers will be:
>
> Richard Beadle (Cambridge) - "Small-Town Drama in Late Medieval
> East Anglia"
>
> Barrie Dobson (Cambridge) - "Craft Guilds and City: The Social
> Background of the York Mystery Plays Reassessed"
>
> Alexandra Johnston (Toronto) - "The Continental Connection:
> English Drama and the Low Countries"
>
> Alan E. Knight (Penn State) - "The Representation of Susannah
> and the Elders in Late Medieval Theatre"
>
> Lynette Muir (Leeds) - "The Play of God in Medieval Europe"
>
> Gerard Nijsten (Amsterdam) - "Feasts and Public Spectacle:
> Late Medieval Drama and Performance.
>
> Pamela Sheingorn (Baruch College) - "The Bodily Embrace:
> Gesture and Gender in Later Medieval Drama"
>
> Stephen Spector (SUNY, Stony Brook) - "N-Town and the Case
> of Civic Drama"
>
> Martin Stevens (CUNY) - "Herod as Carnival King"
>
>
> For further information and registration forms, write to:
>
> Judith L. Shawley
> Department of History
> 601 Oswald Tower
> Pennsylvania State University
> University Park, PA 16802
>
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