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European Medieval Drama
European Medieval Drama is an international project which seeks to
promote the study of medieval drama in its performance aspects, to
develop the study of drama in languages other than English and to set
English drama in its European context. The project has a focus at a
symposium of scolars invited to the University of Camerino in the
Italian Marche where a simultaneous festival of early drama, dance,
minstrelsy and all related forms of performance art takes place. The
symposium and festival's founder, Sydney Higgins, introduced the first
gathering thus:
Non-specialists would be forgiven for thinking that medieval drama,
like Shakespeare, was found only in England. The vast majority of
research published on medieval drama has been written in English and
relates almost exclusively to English medieval plays, not even
including those of Scotland, Ireland or Wales. The continuing quest
for new insights into English medieval drama has meant that surviving
archives, illustrated manuscripts, stained-glass and carved pews of
English cities known (or assumed) to have been associated with
medieval drama have been scoured and re-scoured in the praiseworthy
quest to unearth any new shred of evidence concerning medieval drama.
And it is not just in Great Britain and northern America that
scholars of English medieval drama abound. The same is true of
mainland Europe. Yet there is a surprisingly small number of
Italian, German, French or Spanish experts on the medieval drama of
their own countries despite there being in France, the Low Countries
and Italy, thousands of medieval plays that have never been
published. Of the small percentage that has been printed, only a
handful have been translated into English. And there's the rub.=20
Sadly, by no means all British and north American specialists in
medieval English drama are fluent in other major European languages
(not to mention Cornish, Welsh and Gaelic which, throughout the
medieval period, were the first language of people living in large
tracts of the British Isles where much drama was performed). As a
result, until recently, most English-speaking scholars all but
ignored the wealth of medieval drama found in the rest of Europe and,
consequently, too much of that which has been written about English
medieval drama ignores the parallel, or contrasting, developments
that occurred in other parts of the medieval West and fails to
acknowledge that, throughout the medieval period, the whole of Europe
was linked politically, socially and spiritually by a common religion
and, in Latin, a universal language.
This international project will produce three types of publication: 1.
an annual journal, consisting of a selection of the invited papers at
the Camerino conference; 2. a series of monographs focusing on
scholarly work on the drama of mainland Europe; and 3. editions of
texts (with performable translations into English) of medieval plays
written in languages other than English.
European Medieval Drama Council
The Council will serve as an Editorial Board to oversee the
publications:
Sydney Higgins (Universit=E0 di Camerino - the general editor)
Prof. Graham Caie (University of Glasgow)
Prof. John Cartwright (University of Cape Town)
Prof. John Coldewey (University of Washington, Seattle)
Prof. Enrico Giaccherini (Universit=E0 di Potenza)
Prof. Alexandra Johnston (University of Toronto)
Dr Wim H=FCsken (University of Auckland)
Prof. Francesc Massip (Universitat Tarragona)
Prof. Peter Meredith (University of Leeds)
Prof. Roberta Mullini (Universit=E0 di Urbino)
Prof. Nerida Newbigin (University of Sydney)
Dr Elsa Strietman (University of Cambridge)
In this way these series will make a most significant contribution to
scholarship in a subject area that is attracting ever greater
attention both inside and beyond the academic world but that, up to
now, has been hampered by the inadequate distribution of research not
available to a worldwide readership.
European Medieval Drama - the annual journal
The journal will include a selection of papers delivered at the annual
symposium at Camerino. Contributions focus on the performance aspects
of medieval drama, drama traditions outside English and transcultural
aspects of medieval drama. All articles are published in English.
Contents of Volume 1 (1997)
Towards a Wider Perspective
PETER MEREDITH (University of Leeds, UK)
Theatrical larks or pious practices: playing for souls in the Middle
Ages=20
JOHN C. COLDEWEY (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
The way things (never) were; spiritual nostalgia in medieval English
plays
PETER THOMSON (University of Exeter, UK)
From Chanticlere to Richard Tarlton: the cockerel and the histriones
ENRICO GIACCHERINI (Universit=E0 della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy)
Mak, Hermes and the Satyrs
JOHANN DRUMBL (Universit=E0 del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
Stage and players in the early Middle Ages
Medieval Drama Otherwise
GRAHAM D. CAIE (University of Glasgow, UK)
Unfaithful wives and weeping bitches: Den Utro Hustru
ELSA STRIETMAN (University of Cambridge, UK)
The Rhetoricians and the Reformation=20
JAN HENDRIK METER (Universit=E0 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy)
Harmony and disharmony in a court drama of the Netherlands: Vanden
Winter Ende Vanden Somer
ROBERT POTTER (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
The holy spectacles of Hildegard of Bingen
JAY E. MOORE (Hampton University, USA)
The Scapegoat in the Spanish Auto Sacramental
SYDNEY HIGGINS (Universit=E0 di Camerino, Italy)
Creating the Creation: the staging of the Cornish medieval play The
Creation of the World
STEFANIA D'AGATA D'OTTAVI (Universit=E0 di Siena, Italy)
The Questiones disputatae: an aspect of medieval theatre?
ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI (Verona, Italy)
Carnival in medieval sermons
Research, Review and Re-evaluation
JOHN MARSHALL (University of Bristol, UK)
'O 3e souerens =FEat sytt and 3e brothern =FEat stonde ryght wppe':
Addressing the audience of Mankind
ROBERTA MULLINI (Universit=E0 D'Annunzio, Pescara, Italy)
Fulgens and Lucres: a mirror held up to stage and society
LESLEY WADE SOULE (University of Exeter, UK)
Performing the mysteries: demystification, story-telling and
over-acting like the devil
DARRYLL GRANTLEY (University of Kent, UK)
To swell a progress: retainers, subordinates and the
ceremonialisation of secular power in medieval scriptural and
hagiographical drama
Contents of Volume 2 (1998)
Towards a Wider Perspective
ALEXANDRA JOHNSTON (University of Toronto, Canada)
'At the still point of the turning world': Augustinian roots of
medieval dramaturgy=20
PETER MEREDITH (University of Leeds, UK)
The professional travelling players of the fifteenth century: myth or
reality?=09
JOHN C. COLDEWEY (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Thrice-told tales: renegotiating early English drama=09=09
PETER HAPP=C9 (University of Southampton, UK)
Cycle plays: the state of the art
ENRICO GIACCHERINI (Universit=E0 della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy)
Theatrical Chaucer
Medieval Drama Otherwise
ELSA STRIETMAN (University of Cambridge, UK)
Pawns or prime movers? The Rhetoricians in the struggle for power in
the Low Countries
JOHN CARTWRIGHT (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Modes of performance at the Antwerp 'Haagspel' of 1561
JACQUES TERSTEEG (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands)
The fourteenth-century, middle-Dutch, secular play of Esmoreit
FEMKE KRAMER (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands)
How to stage an 'Abel Spel': reflections on the theatrical treatment
of historical play-texts
KUSUE KUROKAWA (Kawamura Gakuen Woman's University, Japan)
Producing the Harrowing of Hell and Last Judgement plays in a
Japanese Buddhist drama style
JOHN McGAVIN (University of Southampton, UK)
Drama in sixteenth-century Haddington, Scotland
EVELYN S. NEWLYN (State University of New York at Brockport, USA)
Middle Cornish Drama at the Millennium
Research, Review and Re-evaluation
PETER THOMSON (University of Exeter, UK)
Gestus Revisited: Ballam and Ballak in Chester
THERESIA DE VROOM (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
In the context of 'Rough Music': the representation of unequal
couples in some medieval plays
ANDR=C9 LASCOMBES (Universit=E9 de Tours, France)
Revisiting The Croxton Play of Sacrament: spectacle and the other's
voice
LESLEY WADE SOULE (University of Exeter, UK)
Subverting the Mysteries: the Devil as anti-character
European Medieval Drama - monographs and texts series=20
This series of monographs will concentrate on the medieval drama of
countries other than England and on transcultural aspects of medieval
drama, including elements of performance (music, dance, costume,
design, staging etc.) and the similarities and differences that
existed between the content and performance of medieval drama in
various parts of Europe. The aim is to bring major writers and major
scholarly work to a worldwide audience. The texts series will publish
editions, with performable translations into English, of medieval
plays originally written in a language other than English. The
language of publication, other than for the text editions, will be
English.
Prices=20
European Medieval Drama (the annual journal):=092000 BEF (approx. US$
54)
invited participants at any of the Camerino symposia are entitled to a
25% discount:
1500 BEF (approx. US$ 40)
All prices are exclusive of VAT in EU countries=20
and are exclusive of postage and handling costs
No advance payment is required
For more information
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