Abstract
This introduction to Performing Celebration; Celebrating Performance positions the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society within a newly inclusive and interdisciplinary vision of medieval and early modern performance studies. It outlines the field’s expansion beyond text to encompass dance, civic ritual, embodiment, and social performance. Framing the volume around three themes—performing texts writ large, bodies as texts, and iteration and repetition—the essay highlights how new theoretical approaches from gender, queer, and race studies reimagine performance as a dynamic, communal practice. The contributors’ essays together celebrate performance as an evolving mode of inquiry and connection across disciplines.
Recommended Citation
Stoyanoff, Jeffery G. and Renberg, Lynneth Miller
(2026)
"Introduction: Performing Celebration; Celebrating Peformance,"
ROMARD: Vol. 62, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/romard/vol62/iss1/2
