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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 pledge/donation form I pledge the sum of $________ in support of the Palmer Award Fund. ____ My cheque is enclosed (see instructions below). ____ Please remind me by email. Name: __________________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Zip/postal code: _____________ Country: ____________________ email address: ____________________________________________________ Receipts for tax purposes will be issued. Please follow these instructions to assist us in processing tax receipts: US donors: Please make your cheque payable to ‘University of Toronto Associates’ and write ‘Palmer Prize Fund’ in the memo space. Mail cheque to A. F. Johnston, REED, 150 Charles St. W. #118, Toronto, ON M5S 1K9, Canada. Canadian donors: Please make your cheque payable to ‘University of Toronto’ and write ‘Palmer Prize Fund’ in the memo space. Mail cheque to A. F. Johnston, REED, 150 Charles St. W. #118, Toronto, ON M5S 1K9. UK donors: Please make cheques payable to ‘CAF University of Toronto Fund T/70139439’ and write ‘Palmer Prize Fund’ in the memo space. Mail cheque to Mr Michael Moore, Charities Aid Foundation, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4TA. So that we can track donations appropriately, we would be grateful if UK donors would email Sandy Johnston to let her know they have sent a cheque: <[log in to unmask]> -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page