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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS To REED-L subscribers around the world, this is a second call for papers for the drama strand at Leeds 2000 International Medieval Congress, 10-13 July 2000. Please notice that the description has been modified and the focus broadened: The drama strand at Leeds 2000 International Medieval Congress will include several sessions on "Drama and the Built Environment." The organizers welcome papers on any aspecrt of the purposeful use of urban spaces and structures in the production of drama, custom, or ceremony. Any number of focuses suggest themselves. For example: --The uses of street furniture-everything from market crosses and town squares to building frontage or interiors-in the production of drama, progresses, games. The events may range from traditional entertainments (either processional or fixed site) by local amateurs, or professional plays by visiting players, or some combination thereof. --Bull rings and the varieties of baiting as performance. --The theatrical transformation of urban structures and spaces. --Confrontational uses of the urban landscape. --The churchyard and its environs as playing space. --Streetscapes as stages. --The performative uses of inns and innyards. --Play fields, play streets, and playing places in villages and towns. --Other topics unimaginable by the organizers but which will have suggested themselves to researchers wishing to report their findings. Submissions from any methodological perspective are most welcome. Please send abstracts (or inquiries) soon (by September 1 if possible, but please no later than September 15) to: Professor Jim Stokes Department of English University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI USA 54481 email: [log in to unmask] phone: (715) 346-4342 fax: (715) 346-4215