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Here is the next installment -- keep those cards and letters coming in! ########################################## Euel Bailey, Teaching Assistant Dept of English, Northern Illinois University My academic interests include the drama of the English Renaissance, particularly the textual and performance issues that surround the plays. I will soon begin work on a dissertation about 'Troilus and Cressida.' After finding REED-L on the BITNET LISTSERV list, I decided that it would not only be helpful to my academic progress, but would probably make for interesting reading every morning. Thank you for the opportunity to join the list. Euel Bailey <[log in to unmask]> ################################################ Richard Rastall Currently senior lecturer in Music, University of Leeds. Started musicology courses at Leeds, 1967: teach early music, notation, editing, counterpoint, harmony, etc. Founding member of the Manton Consort of Viols. Research interests: Music in early English drama (various publications: book for Boydell and Brewer nearly complete); minstrelsy (PhD dissertation on minstrelsy in Englan: Manchester, 1968: various articles published, and working on volume with Rosalind Conklin Hays and Andrew Taylor); musical sources (founding general editor, Boethius Press, 1973-82) and notation (_The Notation of Western Music_, 1983). Director of Music for productions of medieval drama, including all of Jane Oakshott's productions of biblical cycles (1975, 1980, 1983, and 8 York pageants in York, 10 July 1994): also actor (Adam, 1975; Moses, 1980; Ezekiel 1983: will soon be old enough to play God--or Joseph). E-mail: [log in to unmask] Postal: Dept of Music, U of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. ################################### Terry Gunnell Hamrahlid College/ University of Iceland (Folkloristics) [log in to unmask] Regarding my background, I was born in Brighton, England in 1955, and finished my BA Hons in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham in 1977. I then went on to become a sixth form teacher of Drama and English, first in Birmingham and then since 1979, in Iceland. In 1991, I finished my doctorate in Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds in England, writing a research thesis on the origins of drama in Scandinavia. The thesis, which Boydell and Brewer plan to publish this autumn (if I can get the revised work to them in time), contains not only a complete examination of the archaeological and literary evidence for ritual drama having taken place in pre-Christian Scandinavia, but also a detailed examination of the performance difficulties of the dialogic poems of the Elder Edda and the way they are recorded in manuscript. The conclusions are not only that these poems (like Dame Sirith for example) have to be performed dramatically to make sense to their audience, but also that the system of writing speakers' names in the margin of the manuscript which is used in the Eddic MSS was only being used in MSS of dramatic works at this time in Europe. The recorded versions of the dialogic poems of the Edda would thus seem to be among the earliest recorded dramatic works in the vernacular in Northern Europe, and a valuable link with pagan ritual. I have since directed an outdoor performance of Skirnismal on the midwinter solstice here in Iceland (snow, fire, and candle light). In Leeds, I was lucky enough to get to know Peter Meredith, and Lynette Muir and my own studies have naturally involved a lot of work with medieval drama. When I got onto the Internet through the school I am teaching at, and happened to come across Reed-L, I thought this would be an ideal way of hearing what is going on in this field. I woud be very grateful to join, if only to listen in to the academic discussion.