Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 585-4594/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:47:16 +0000 From: Ruth Evans <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: MLA performance session left off program Dear Listmembers A Special Session I'm organizing at this year's MLA in SF has got left off the programme. It will appear in the Program Update, but here is the information about its content, as some of you may be interested in attending. I don't yet know when the session is scheduled, but I'll update you as soon as I find out from the organizers. Ruth Evans Cardiff University The Special Session is entitled 'Performance Texts in their Literary Environment' Division: Middle English Literature, excluding Chaucer Presider: Ruth Evans, Cardiff University, Wales, UK 1st paper: 'Legal Documents as Literary Performance' Speaker: Emily Steiner, Dept of Medieval Studies, Yale University 2nd paper: 'When the King Harps on a Subject...: Power and Performance in _Sir Orfeo_' Speaker: Christine Chism, Rutgers University 3rd paper: 'Negotiating Poetry: Deschamps Reading Machaut at the Anglo-French Treaty Negotiations of 1375' Speaker: Joyce Coleman, University of North Dakota There are 3 participants, and it is a Formal Session not a Roundtable.