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Dear Andrea, The problem you're following up is tied in with where the plays were performed and for whom. Meg Twycross's first article (REED Newsletter, 1978/2, 10-33) looked at the people who paid to have the plays performed outside their doors and came to the tentative conclusion that the houses were all on the left-hand side of the route. She later retracted this (Medieval English Theatre 14, 1992, 77-94), citing new evidence discussed by Eileen White and David Crouch: their published work was taken from their doctoral theses (White in Medieval English Theatre 9:1, 1987, 23-63; Crouch in Medieval English Theatre 13, 1991, 64-111). Peter Meredith has done some work on the positioning of the waggons in relation to the sun at York: it's in Clifford Davidson, The Iconography of Hell (EDAM Monograph Series: Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo MI c. 1994), but I don't have my copy here and can't off-hand tell you the page- numbers. There's also a short discussion of the practical effects of side-on and end-on performance in my Music in Early English Religious Drama II: Minstrels Playing (Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2001), 496-9. All good wishes, Richard Quoting Andrea Harbin <[log in to unmask]>: > Thank you. I read the article that I'm thinking about at around the same > time that the York Staging volume of ET came out, but it wasn't part of it. > I'll look at again at John McKinnell's article. > > I appreciate the help. > > Andrea Harbin > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alexandra F. Johnston > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:21 AM > Subject: Re: lost article > > > There was a debate about side-on end-on performances on the York wagons as > part of the York Cycle Symposium in Toronto in1998 in conjunction with the > complete performance of the plays in one day. You can find the papers in > Early Theatre 3, 2000. You can get information about ET by visiting our > website http://www.earlytheatre.ca/. Meg Twycross, who is the strongest > advocate of the end-on position has written about it in Medieval English > Theatre but all her articles are sited in the article by John McKinnell on > the subject in the ET volume > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Andrea Harbin > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 10:01 PM > Subject: lost article > > > Several years ago, I read an article about the placement of the wagons in > York that (if I'm remembering correctly) argued that the wagons were placed > side-on in part to exclude the established ecclesiastic institutions. I've > been trying to relocate this article with no luck. Unfortunately I had notes > in a database which has since crashed. Can anyone help me with this? I can > remember neither the title nor the author! > > Thanks, > > Andrea Harbin Dr Richard Rastall Professor of Historical Musicology School of Music University of Leeds (0)113 343 2581 [log in to unmask] http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/grr/index.htm