| Comparative Drama will sponsor 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 Saturday, May 10, 10:00 a.m. Kanley Chapel |
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 Saturday, May 10, 1:30 p.m. Bernhard Center, room 204 |
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 Saturday, May 10, 3:30 p.m. Valley 1, room 106 |
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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| Comparative Drama sponsored a session at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May, 2007: |
| Gammer Gurton's Needle: Performance, Criticism, and Pedagogy |
Organizer: Karen Sawyer Marsalek, St. Olaf College |
| Presentations Included: |
| "Down. . . on Thy Knees I Say!": Performing Edwardian Iconoclasm, Scatology, and Mock-Ritual in Gammer Gurton's Needle Robert Hornback, Oglethorpe University |
| Gammer on Page and Stage Karen Sawyer Marsalek |
| Teaching the Flyting: Act 3, Scene 3 of Gammer Gurton's Needle Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland |
| The early Tudor play, Gammer Gurton's Needle, began life at Cambridge University with an academic author, auspices, and audience. But while Christ College Cambridge students enjoyed the performed play as a vernacular diversion from their Greek and Latin studies, today's students tend to encounter the play in print, as a subject of their study, if they encounter it at all. This panel considered the play from several perspectives---its theatrical vitality, current critical evaluations, and different teaching approaches. |
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