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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, 16 Dec 1999 13:46:38 -0600 From: Robert L. A. Clark <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: MLA sessions--correction Please note that Lisa Lampert has had to withdraw from session 173, organized by MRDS. Please note also the location and the early hour, and please come! The panel is as follows: ------------------------------------------ Session 173 (MRDS) The Representation of Jews on the Medieval and Early Modern Stage: A Roundtable Tuesday, 28 December, 8:30=9:45 a.m. Huron, Sheraton The Comic Abject Object: Jews in Medieval Drama Sylvia Tomasch, Hunter Coll., City Univ. of New York Barabas, Shylock, and Company: Mediterranean Commerce and Jewish Merchants in the Drama of Early Modern England Daniel James Vitkus, Florida Inst. of Tech. Strange Behavior: Cultural Expectation and the Jewish Irruption Lloyd Edward Kermode, Ithaca Coll. Edged Out of Exile: At What Price Jewish Dignity? Yvette M. Smith, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana Celestina, Contamination, and the Performance of Jewishness Gregory S. Hutcheson, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Note from the Organizer, Robert Clark The goal of the roundtable is to bring together the broadest possible spectrum of current work on this topic in both the medieval and early modern periods. Sylvia Tomasch explores the portrayal of Jews through comic means as abject objects, that is, as constructions fashioned to focus and combat Christian doubt by providing a visible locus of subjugated otherness. Her analysis focuses on two characters: Archisynagogus, of the twelfth-century Benediktbeuern Christmas play; and Abraham, in the fourteenth-century Czech Mastrikar. Daniel Vitkus analyzes the representation of two other characters against the contemporary historical record. Lloyd Kermode investigates the complex of gender, religion, and race as types of otherness in the women in The Merchant of Venice. Yvette-Marie Smith studies the highly ambivalent representation of virtuous Jews in the Biblical Drama of France. Gregory Hutcheson proposes an analysis of the protagonist of Fernando de Rojas's Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (1499), in which this figure of the alcahueta functions as the veteran polluter of notions of caste, orthodoxy, normativity (both cultural and sexual), the literary word, and language itself. It is hoped that, after the five speakers have outlined their positions, there will be ample time for audience response and discussion.