IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1626: N-Town's Diversity: Its History and Its Plays
Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society |
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| Organiser: | Frank M. Napolitano, Department of English, Radford University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Clare Wright, School of English, University of Kent |
| Paper 1626-a | Infinite Variety: The Plays in the N-Town Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 1626-b | N-Town's Rhetoric of Hope (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Abstract | This session will reassess our knowledge of the N-Town Manuscript, British Library MS Cotton Vespasian D.8, in its literary, historical, and political contexts. The manuscript and its plays have experienced a resurgence of scholarly interest in recent years, in the forms of new teaching editions, monographs, and several articles. All of this scholarship explores the diversity of style, genre, audience, authorship, and religious controversies addressed by plays that are rooted in the context of late-medieval lay piety, and in a manuscript compiled in the Early Modern Period. The session welcomes proposals from numerous critical perspectives and methodologies, focusing on individual plays, the manuscript, or the cultures of which they were a part. |