| Comparative Drama will be sponsoring three sessions at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May, 2009. |
I. Performing the Text (A performance) |
II. Private Reading and Public Performance |
III. Staging Justice in Early Drama |
| Detailed Information as well as a call for papers for sessions II and III will be posted by August, 2008 |
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| Comparative Drama sponsored the following sessions at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May, 2008: |
| Play Music from Hildegard to the Age of Shakespeare |
Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ., and Clifford Davidson, Western Michigan Univ. |
| A concert of music from the church music-dramas such as Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum to the mystery plays and the Globe Theater with the Michigan Bach Collegium, directed by Eric Strand, and the WMU Collegium Musicum, directed by Matthew Steele. This concert will be repeated on Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 247 W. Lovell Street in downtown Kalamazoo. Admission is free through the generosity of the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation, which has provided support through a grant to the Michigan Bach Collegium. |
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| Reassessing English Interludes: Performance, Criticism, and Pedagogy I |
Organizer: Karen Marsalek, St. Olaf College, and Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ. |
| Politics versus Play in Fulgens and Lucres? |
Kent Cartwright, Univ. of Maryland |
| "Wilt thou hear now of his schools?": John Skelton's Magnyfycence, Educative Drama, Alternate Playing Traditions |
Jeanne McCarthy, Oglethorpe Univ. |
| King Johan and the Anticrist |
Kathleen Barker, Univ. of Marlyand |
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| Reassessing English Interludes: Performance, Criticism, and Pedagogy II |
Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ. |
| This session will feature a complete performance, directed by Joe Ricke and performed mostly by graduate students of the Medieval Institute, of the early Tudor (1491?) interlude Fulgens and Lucrece. It is not our intention necessarily to reproduce early Tudor costumes, music, and feast, but we hope to perform and explore the work from a perspective informed by the rich background provided by early drama studies, focusing on the unique place of interludes, while also acknowledging connections with earlier religious drama and later "secular" Elizabethan and Jacobean popular theater. The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the director, actors, and audience. |
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