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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Leeds Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:04:33 -0600 From: Jesse Hurlbut <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] CALL FOR PAPERS Leeds, July 12-15, 2010 International Congress for Medieval Studies Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society Sponsored Session Looking for the Early English Popular Tradition: Where are the Texts? What’s in the Records? Nearly forty years ago, David Bevington’s Mankind to Marlowe defined a sixteenth-century popular tradition in terms of the surviving texts use of doubling, troupe size, and staging requirements. Much recent work has both developed and questioned elements of this picture. The REED volumes have provided a wealth of information about early touring practices, while surviving evidence suggests that children’s companies were more prevalent than we had originally thought. This session looks at the texts commonly placed in the “popular” tradition (which, for this session, is meant to denote the early professional tradition) as well as what the records can tell us about them. Topics to consider Are there play texts we have missed? (in dialogues, ballads etc) What do these texts reveal about early professional theatrical practice?(doubling, props, costumes, adaptability to various venues, etc.) What do the surviving play texts and/or records tell us about audience expectations and dramatic effect? What’s been lost and why? Who were early printed play texts printed for? How were they used? The practical requirements of touring, touring itineraries, records of itinerant companies. Send 100 word abstracts for 15-20 minute presentations and contact information to the following address: Victor I. Scherb Professor of English Department of Literature and Languages The University of Texas at Tyler Tyler, TX 75799 (903) 566-7374 Or e-mail to [log in to unmask] Deadline: September 20, 2009 -- 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