I thought I would repost our CFPs for the Medieval and Renaissance Drama
sessions at the 2004 International Medieval Congress one last time before
the deadline next Monday.
Our "Manuscripts and Performance" session is now full. Please
don't send any more abstracts for that session. Our other, three session
organizers, however, are still accepting abstracts, preferably via
e-mail:
"Itinerant players in the
sixteenth century" The plan for this session is _not_ to focus on
major travelling companies, but on the evidence for individuals and small
(unlicensed?) companies. Abstracts dealing with English and
continental sources are both welcome. The time frame can easily be
expanded backwards if there are papers dealing with the fifteenth
century.
Organizer: David N. Klausner <[log in to unmask]>
"Early Stage Revivals of
Medieval Drama," ... Proposals dealing with early modern drama will
also be given consideration.
Organizer: Robert Clark <[log in to unmask]>
"Never Appear with Them:
Animals and Children in Medieval
Drama"
Possible topics:
The use of
animals onstage (e.g. the Interludium de Clerico et
Puella)
- Children or animals and the pulling of dramatic focus: the problems
and
- the opportunities provided by their presence
Children
or animals as figures for comedy and/or pathos
Childhood
as theme or as a means of reinforcing other themes
Children
and/or animals in the records or surviving play texts
Organizer: Victor I. Scherb
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You can also submit abstracts directly to me at the fax or e-mail address
below so that I can forward abstracts to the session
organizers.
Gloria Betcher
Gloria J. Betcher, Ph.D.
Associate Editor, _Early Theatre_
Secretary/Treasurer, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Dept. of English
Iowa State University
206 Ross Hall
Ames, IA 50011
USA
office: (515) 294-3026
home: (515) 292-5177
fax (515) 294-6814
Website address:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbetcher
e-mail: [log in to unmask]