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Here is a conference announcement from PERFORM I thought might be of
interest to the list.
 
Abigail
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> Date:         Fri, 19 Feb 1993 11:56:00 EST
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> Subject:      Medieval Theatre Conference
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> I was just about to post an announcement of our upcoming conference on
> medieval theatre, when Bob Clark beat me to it.  I'm glad to know the
> news is getting around.  Here is some supplemental information on the
> conference.
>
> --Alan Knight (aek@psuvm), Penn State University
>
>
>                           THE STAGE AS MIRROR:
>                   CIVIC THEATRE IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE
>
>                       An International Conference
>                             to be held at
>                    The Pennsylvania State University
>                           March 25-27, 1993
>
>          The conference will explore the function of late medieval
>     theatre in England, France, and The Netherlands, examining the
>     relationships among these three countries as reflected in late
>     medieval civic spectacles.  There will be performances of plays
>     from N-Town and from Lille and a workshop on medieval theatre,
>     involving a German play of the Wise and Foolish Virgins.  There
>     will also be a medieval banquet, followed by a performance of
>     the Lille _Susannah and the Elders_.  The speakers will be:
>
>     Richard Beadle (Cambridge) - "Small-Town Drama in Late Medieval
>         East Anglia"
>
>     Barrie Dobson (Cambridge) - "Craft Guilds and City: The Social
>         Background of the York Mystery Plays Reassessed"
>
>     Alexandra Johnston (Toronto) - "The Continental Connection:
>         English Drama and the Low Countries"
>
>     Alan E. Knight (Penn State) - "The Representation of Susannah
>         and the Elders in Late Medieval Theatre"
>
>     Lynette Muir (Leeds) - "The Play of God in Medieval Europe"
>
>     Gerard Nijsten (Amsterdam) - "Feasts and Public Spectacle:
>         Late Medieval Drama and Performance.
>
>     Pamela Sheingorn (Baruch College) - "The Bodily Embrace:
>         Gesture and Gender in Later Medieval Drama"
>
>     Stephen Spector (SUNY, Stony Brook) - "N-Town and the Case
>         of Civic Drama"
>
>     Martin Stevens (CUNY) - "Herod as Carnival King"
>
>
>      For further information and registration forms, write to:
>
>                 Judith L. Shawley
>                 Department of History
>                 601 Oswald Tower
>                 Pennsylvania State University
>                 University Park, PA  16802
>