IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1038: Performance as Research
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Medieval English Theatre, Lancaster University |
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| Organiser: | Sarah Brazil, Département de langue et littérature anglaises, Université de Genève |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bart Ramakers, Oudere Nederlandse Letterkunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Paper 1038-a | Judging the Audience: What Can a Modern Audience Ever Tell Us about a Medieval Audience? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 1038-b | Exploring Worship: Performance-Based Research within the Medieval Convent (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Liturgy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1038-c | Thomas Goffe's Turks: Performing Otherness at Oxford (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Abstract | This panel will consider from multiple perspectives the issue of using performance in order to further research possibilities in early drama. Paper -a will explore the responses of a modern audience to the Northampton Abraham and Isaac, and will try to assess what such reactions can tell us about the play's medieval reception. Paper -b approaches 'performance' and 'research' from a medieval rather than a modern perspective in relation to convent drama, and paper -c will take on the issue of performing otherness in Oxford, taking Thomas Goffe's The Courageous Turk as its central example. |