Early English Drama & Performance

Deadline for Proposals: 1 June 2022 Further information can be found here. Two sessions (at least) will be of interest to member of PPCN: Then and Now: Disaster and Adversity in Medieval Performa...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2022/04/25/cfp-american-society-for-theatre-research-astr-catastrophe-at-astor-crowne-plaza-hotel-new-orleans-la-3-6-november-2022/

400 years ago, Elizabeth Sawyer was tried and hanged for witchcraft. Now, Creation Theatre invites you to be her judge. Was Elizabeth Sawyer a witch who sold her soul to the devil or simply a lon...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/performance-creation-theatre-presents-the-witch-of-edmonton-live-online-5-20-march-2022/

ABSTRACTS: due 1 November 2021Submit here. Conference Website here. The panel (sub-theme) is being organised Matthew Sergi and Jeff Stoyanoff, who invite proposals for their cfp, below. Medieval ...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/cfp-panel-on-embodying-belief-8-9-april-2022/

In July 2021, Premodern Performance Cultures hosted a two-day online symposium exploring New Directions in Premodern Performance. We heard a range of fascinating papers from scholars and practiti...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2021/09/17/reflections-on-the-premodern-performance-culture-networks-new-directions-symposium/

Edward’s Boys are back! Originally titled Parasitaster, or the Fawn, the play was performed by at least two of the children’s companies, probably in 1606. The play’s alternative Latinized...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2021/08/26/performance-edwards-boys-present-the-fawn-or-parasitaster-by-john-marston-29-sept-2-oct-2021/

Performance traditions before 1642 in the northeast of England, and the impulses that affected traditions ranging from wedding revels and sporting activities, through civic plays and processions,...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2021/05/24/just-published-early-performers-and-performance-in-the-northeast-of-england-ed-by-diana-wyatt-and-john-mckinnell-arc-2021/

The Premodern Performance Cultures Network (previously the Early English Drama and Performance Network) is seeking submissions from early- and mid-career researchers on any aspect of performance,...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/cfp-whither-wander-you-new-directions-in-premodern-performance/

The Records of Early English Drama announces the open access publication of its latest edition in the REED series: REED: Hampshire, edited by Peter Greenfield and Jane Cowling. Now available on R...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/reed-hampshire-ed-peter-greenfield-and-jane-cowling-june-2020-launched/

CFP: ICMS KALAMAZOO 2020 Session Title: Performing Medieval Drama in the 21st Century (A Panel Discussion) Organized by Kyle A. Thomas (Missouri State University) and sponsered by the Medieval an...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/cfp-performing-medieval-drama-in-the-21st-century-icms-kalamazoo-2020/

The theatre has always been a place to push boundaries and explore the borders of what is accepted in society.  The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society invites abstracts for the 2020 Leeds I...

https://earlyenglishdrama.wordpress.com/2019/07/12/cfp-border-crossings-leeds-imc-2020/