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Subject: 2004 MRDS CFPs for
Kalamazoo
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
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"Early Stage Revivals of Medieval
Drama," ... Proposals dealing with early modern drama will also be given
consideration.
Organizer: Robert Clark
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"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:
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