Minstrels and Players

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Andrew Taylor, Paul Whitfield White

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Ottawa, Purdue Univ.

Presider Name

Suzanne R. Westfall

Presider Affiliation

Lafayette College

Paper Title 1

Were Minstrels Actors in Waiting?

Presenter 1 Name

Andrew Taylor

Paper Title 2

Were Players and Minstrels "Professional"?

Presenter 2 Name

Paul Whitfield White

Paper Title 3

Respondent

Presenter 3 Name

Richard Rastall

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Leeds

Start Date

15-5-2015 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 2335

Description

This session offers a fresh look and reappraisal of early English minstrels and players. The papers explore important issues relating to these major entertainers and their traditions, separately as well as in conjunction with one another. Those issues include historiography, nomenclatures, patronage, travel, economics and politics. No previous IMC session, to our knowledge, has made its focus the two most popular forms of entertainment together.

Paul Whitfield White