Comparative Drama sponsored three sessions at the 44th International Congress on Medieval
Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 7-10, 2009.
 
Staging Justice in Early Drama

Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Cynthia Klekar, Western Michigan Univ.
Christ before Pilate: Staging Medieval Justice

Jesse A. Njus, Northwestern Univ.

Trials and Punishments in the Lost English Ludo beate Cristine

Don-John Dugas, Kent State Univ.

The Trial of True Justice in Henry Medwall's Fulgens and Lucrece

Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.
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Private Reading and Public Performance

Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Anthony Ellis, Western Michigan Univ.

Comic Eavesdropping Inscribed: The Classical Precedent for Private Reading

David Kutzko, Western Michigan Univ.
Public Reading and Private Performance: Viewing a Performance in the Images in MS Besançon 579,
the Jour du jugement

Karlyn Griffith, Florida State Univ.

Public Theater, Private Salvation, and Manuscript Performance: The Jour du jugement in MS Besançon 579

Beatrice Kitzinger, Harvard Univ.

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Performing the Text (A performance)

Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Eve Salisbury

The Tournament of Tottenham

Linda Marie Zaerr, Boise State Univ.
Featuring the Ad Hoc Players
Dramatis personae
Briana Barnett.................................................................................Tyb
David Baron....................................................................................Perkyn
Christina Petty.................................................................................Reeve’s wife
Chet Petty.......................................................................................Randolf the Reeve
Eric Petty .......................................................................................Hawkyn / Herry
Jodie Doster....................................................................................Dawkyn
Robin Blanchard..............................................................................Terry / Tomkyn
Ben Ambler.....................................................................  ...............Hud
Nick Gauthier..................................................................................Gyb
Anthony Ellis....................................................................................Dudman
Cynthia Klekar.................................................................................1st wife
Rebecca Beech................................................................................2nd wife
Eve Salisbury...................................................................................3rd wife
Chris Nagle......................................................................................4th wife
 
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