Dear colleagues:
*Early Theatre* awards essay prizes every two years for outstanding
contributions in the following categories:
- Best article on a theatre history topic relying on REED-style records
- Best article on the interpretation of a topic in early drama, medieval
or early modern
- Best note or Issues in Review essay
Please join us in congratulating the *winners of our 2017 Essay Prizes*,
given for articles appearing in volumes 18 and 19:
Best article in theatre history:
- Winner: Matteo A. Pangallo (Virginia Commonwealth University), ‘“I
will keep and character that name”: Dramatis Personae Lists in Early Modern
Manuscript Plays’, *Early Theatre* 18.2 (2015), 87-118*, *
https://doi.org/10.12745/et.18.2.1166
<https://doi.org/10.12745/et.18.2.1166>
- Honourable Mention: Misha Teramura (Reed College), ‘The Admiral’s
*Vayvode* of 1598’, *Early Theatre* 18.1 (2015), 79-100,
https://doi.org/10.12745/et.18.1.1168
<https://doi.org/10.12745/et.18.1.1168>
Best critical/interpretive article:
- Winner:* Cameron Hunt McNabb* (Southeastern University), ‘Night of the
Living Bread: Unstable Signs In Chester’s “Antichrist”’, *Early
Theatre* 19.2
(2016), 9-30, https://doi.org/10.12745/et.19.2.2695
<https://doi.org/10.12745/et.19.2.2695>
- Honourable Mention:* Ann Hubert* (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign), ‘Preaching Rhetorical Invention: Poeta and Paul in the
Digby *Conversion of St Paul*’, *Early Theatre* 18.1 (2015), 9-32,
https://doi.org/10.12745/et.18.1.1070
<https://doi.org/10.12745/et.18.1.1070>
Best note or Issues in Review essay:
- Winner:* Matthew Steggle* (Sheffield Hallam University), ‘The “Comedy
of a Duke of Ferrara” in 1598’, *Early Theatre* 19.2 (2016), 139-56,
https://doi.org/10.12745/et.19.2.2818
<https://doi.org/10.12745/et.19.2.2818>
- Honourable Mention: *David Nicol* (Dalhousie University), ‘“The
Peaceable King, or the Lord Mendall”: A Lost Jack Cade Play and its 1623
Revival’, *Early Theatre *19.1 (2016), 137-45, https://doi.org/10.
12745/et.19.1.2699
Best wishes,
Helen
Dr H M Ostovich <[log in to unmask]>
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~english/Faculty/Ostovich.html
Founding Editor, *Early Theatre* <http://earlytheatre.org/
<http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/>>
Series Editor, Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
https://www.routledge.com/performance/series/SPEMD
Series Editor, Late Tudor and Stuart Drama (
https://mip-archumanitiespress.org/series/mip/late-tudor-stuart-drama/)
Professor Emerita, English and Cultural Studies
McMaster University
Hamilton ON L8S 4L9
Canada
