Performing Christ and Satan: A Readers' Theater Performance of the York Smiths' Play ("The Temptation") and the York Saddlers' Play ("Harrowing of Hell") from the York Mystery Cycle
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Chaucer Studio
Organizer Name
Joe Ricke
Organizer Affiliation
Taylor Univ.
Presider Name
Joe Ricke
Paper Title 1
Performer
Presenter 1 Name
Jane Chance
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Rice Univ.
Paper Title 2
Performer
Presenter 2 Name
Alan T. Gaylord
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Dartmouth College
Paper Title 3
Performer
Presenter 3 Name
Thomas J. Farrell
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Stetson Univ.
Paper Title 4
Performer
Presenter 4 Name
Susan Yager
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Iowa State Univ.
Paper Title 5
Performer
Presenter 5 Name
Carolyn Coulson
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Shenandoah Univ.
Paper Title 6
Performer
Presenter 6 Name
Alan Baragona
Presenter 6 Affiliation
James Madison Univ.
Paper Title 7
Performers
Presenter 7 Name
Bernard Lewis, Paul R. Thomas
Presenter 7 Affiliation
Murray State Univ., Brigham Young Univ.
Start Date
15-5-2015 3:30 PM
Session Location
Valley I Ackley 106
Description
For over a decade a group of scholar/teachers has performed (Readers' Theater-style) medieval drama at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. These performances are recorded for distribution by the Chaucer Studio. For the 2015 Congress, the performances will be of two different plays from the York Mystery Cycle, both of which feature encounters between Christ and Satan. They are the York Smiths' Play (The Temptation of Christ by Satan in the Wilderness) and the York Saddlers’ Play (“The Harrowing of Hell”). Doing both of these plays in one session will provide a unique opportunity to reflect on the thematic, doctrinal, and theatrical similarities and differences between the two plays. Further, with different actors portraying the two Christs and the two Satans, we can experience, in some slight way, the dilated performance of a single character by multiple performers in one day.
give insight into the ongoing characterizations of Christ and Satan in the cycle
Performing Christ and Satan: A Readers' Theater Performance of the York Smiths' Play ("The Temptation") and the York Saddlers' Play ("Harrowing of Hell") from the York Mystery Cycle
Valley I Ackley 106
For over a decade a group of scholar/teachers has performed (Readers' Theater-style) medieval drama at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. These performances are recorded for distribution by the Chaucer Studio. For the 2015 Congress, the performances will be of two different plays from the York Mystery Cycle, both of which feature encounters between Christ and Satan. They are the York Smiths' Play (The Temptation of Christ by Satan in the Wilderness) and the York Saddlers’ Play (“The Harrowing of Hell”). Doing both of these plays in one session will provide a unique opportunity to reflect on the thematic, doctrinal, and theatrical similarities and differences between the two plays. Further, with different actors portraying the two Christs and the two Satans, we can experience, in some slight way, the dilated performance of a single character by multiple performers in one day.
give insight into the ongoing characterizations of Christ and Satan in the cycle