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More from the PERFORM discussion! AAY > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 14:16:55 MDT > From: Garrett Pj Epp <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Moralities and modern approaches > To: Multiple recipients of list PERFORM <[log in to unmask]> > In-Reply-To: note of 93-09-07 10:33 > > From: Garrett PJ Epp Department of English > University of Alberta > Anyone doing work on moralities - or any other form of medieval drama - and > in gender/sexuality, should note the session sponsered by SSHMA on "Sexual > Dissidence in Medieval Drama." Proposals for the session are still welcome > (nay, warmly encouraged!) - please contact either myself (FAX 403-492-8142) > or Graham Drake (FAX 716-245-5005/ no e-mail address, yet) ... soon. > > The full proposal is as follows: > Recent scholarship in the field of Renaissance drama has > largely been devoted to questions of "sexual dissidence," developing new > theoretical constructs to understand such issues as cross-dressing, > cross-gendered behaviour, sexual puns in unexpected contexts, and homosexual > relationships between characters. Virtually none of this exciting work has so > far been extended back into the Middle Ages. Yet there was cross-dressing > even in liturgical drama, and homosexual relationships figure in the moral > interlude. Furthermore, the explicit didacticism of most medieval drama makes > it an especially interesting and fruitful site for the examination of > contested moral authority. This session will explore ways in which genders > and sexualities are performed on a variety of medieval stages. > > Do consider submitting something - there's a lot of good material out there. > All the best, > Garrett >