Records of Early English Drama, North-East
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Dept. of English Studies, Durham Univ.
Organizer Name
Mark C. Chambers
Organizer Affiliation
Durham Univ.
Presider Name
Alexandra Johnston
Presider Affiliation
Records of Early English Drama
Paper Title 1
"Lo, he merys; Lo, he laghys": Humor and the Shepherds in the York and Towneley Plays
Presenter 1 Name
Jamie Beckett
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Durham Univ.
Paper Title 2
Men of the Cloth and Men in Drag: Ecclesiastical Patronage of the "Other" in Late Medieval Durham
Presenter 2 Name
Mark C. Chambers
Paper Title 3
The Distinctiveness of Yorkshire West Riding Rushbearings
Presenter 3 Name
Ted McGee
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Waterloo
Paper Title 4
"I will speak as liberal as the North": Performances in Northumberland
Presenter 4 Name
Suzanne Westfall
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Lafayette College
Start Date
13-5-2017 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1125
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 Durham, Northumberland and the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire. The results, to be published in the ongoing Records of Early English Drama series, will provide extensive and robustly-presented detail of one of the last remaining uncharted areas in the field of English performance history up to the Seventeenth Century.
This session will include papers that showcase some of the recently discovered evidence for early drama from the North-East of England, in order to help refine our understanding of the geographical and social contexts in which drama, music and mimetic entertainment was produced across the region. It will include papers by three of the current REED North-East volume editors and will highlight, in particular, aspects of the growing evidence for folk performance in the region. These will feature discussion and analysis of the use of humour in the York civic biblical plays from Yorkshire; Durham Priory and Bishops' patronage of performance in the city and county palatinate before the Reformation, including a recurring predilection for performance by the marginalized or "other" in late-medieval society; the distinct nature of the Rushbearing ceremonies in the Yorkshire West Riding; and the peculiar political aesthetic identities associated with performance in the important border shire of Northumberland.
Presided by the Records of Early English Drama founder Alexandra Johnston, the session will feature aspects of the latest archival-based research into medieval and Early Modern performance history from the north of England.
Mark C. Chambers
Records of Early English Drama, North-East
Schneider 1125
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 Durham, Northumberland and the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire. The results, to be published in the ongoing Records of Early English Drama series, will provide extensive and robustly-presented detail of one of the last remaining uncharted areas in the field of English performance history up to the Seventeenth Century.
This session will include papers that showcase some of the recently discovered evidence for early drama from the North-East of England, in order to help refine our understanding of the geographical and social contexts in which drama, music and mimetic entertainment was produced across the region. It will include papers by three of the current REED North-East volume editors and will highlight, in particular, aspects of the growing evidence for folk performance in the region. These will feature discussion and analysis of the use of humour in the York civic biblical plays from Yorkshire; Durham Priory and Bishops' patronage of performance in the city and county palatinate before the Reformation, including a recurring predilection for performance by the marginalized or "other" in late-medieval society; the distinct nature of the Rushbearing ceremonies in the Yorkshire West Riding; and the peculiar political aesthetic identities associated with performance in the important border shire of Northumberland.
Presided by the Records of Early English Drama founder Alexandra Johnston, the session will feature aspects of the latest archival-based research into medieval and Early Modern performance history from the north of England.
Mark C. Chambers