Temporalities and Medieval Drama

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval Research Consortium, Univ. of California-Davis

Organizer Name

Katherine Leveling Wait

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of California-Davis

Presider Name

Katherine Leveling Wait

Paper Title 1

The Closed Book and the Open Stage: Literary Privilege and the Mediated Medieval Performance

Presenter 1 Name

Trevor Jackson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Merced

Paper Title 2

Performing Virtue: Temporal Incarnation and the Musical/Dramatic Performance of Hildegard’s Ordo virtutum

Presenter 2 Name

Charles A. Gillespie

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale Divinity School

Paper Title 3

The "Mary Play," the Harrowing of Hell, and King Henry VIII

Presenter 3 Name

John Warrick

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Southern Mississippi

Start Date

12-5-2013 10:30 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1360

Description

This panel in interested in the ways medieval drama helps us think about temporalities within its own period and across others. How does medieval drama incorporate contemporary political, social, spiritual, and gendered concerns within or through temporal disruptions or cross-temporal dynamics? Papers might explore these questions through audience orientations to temporalities, temporalities within dramatic texts, and performance contexts and interactions. Papers might also trouble distinctions between drama in the medieval and early modern, interrogating how temporal relations within and among these literary and historical periods helps us understand them together.

Katherine Leveling Wait