Records of Early English Drama North East

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Records of Early English Drama

Organizer Name

Diana Wyatt

Organizer Affiliation

Durham Univ.

Presider Name

Alexandra F. Johnston

Presider Affiliation

Records of Early English Drama

Paper Title 1

Assessing the Durham Difference: Contexts for the Durham Corpus Christi in the Trade Company Records

Presenter 1 Name

Mark Campbell Chambers

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Durham Univ.

Paper Title 2

"We must be married, or we must live in bawdry": Wedding Revels at the Earl of Northumberland's Household ca. 1511-1515

Presenter 2 Name

Suzanne R. Westfall

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Lafayette College

Paper Title 3

The Osmotherly Jig: A Village Feud Goes Big Time

Presenter 3 Name

David N. Klausner

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Toronto

Paper Title 4

One Karre, One Worme, and Two Angel Wings: Unpicking the Evidence for the Beverley Hairers' Pageant of Paradise.

Presenter 4 Name

Diana Wyatt

Start Date

14-5-2015 3:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 1045

Description

Records of Early English Drama North-east, a five-year project based at Durham University, is researching and collecting all the surviving records of performance from Northumberland, Durham and the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire; the results, to be published as five collections in the Records of Early English Drama series, will fill one of the last remaining uncharted areas in the field of English performance history up to the Seventeenth Century.

The papers in this session witness the variety of the evidence already discovered, and how it reflects the different geographical and social contexts of the activities recorded, public and private, formal and informal: Corpus Christi celebrations in the unique and powerful city of Durham and the east Yorkshire market town of Beverley; wedding celebrations in the family of a great magnate; and village performance as score-settling.

Diana Wyatt