On 10 Nov 1996, Carol Symes wrote:
> New Member:
> Carol Symes, Department of History, Harvard University
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> I am currently traveling in France, collecting materials for a dissertation on
> theatre and public spectacle in the town of Arras during the thirteenth century.
> Under the rubric of *theatre* I include not only the first extra-ecclesiastical
> vernacular plays produced in Europe (Jean Bodel's _Jeu de saint-Nicolas_, the
> _Courtois d'Arras_ , and Adam de la Halle's oeuvre) but other types of
> performance which provide a context for these plays and may help to explain the
> dramatic precocity of this region, which had (I will argue) a kind of community
> theatre two hundred years before anything like it can be documented in England.
> I'm looking at what I've been calling the "civic liturgies" of the town: the
> processions, tournaments, disputes, and displays that were played out in public
> spaces. This project grows out of earlier research in hagiography while at
> Oxford and is influenced by my experience as a professional actress and - more
> recently - as a director specializing in medieval and early modern theatre.
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Dear Carol,
It sounds facinating! Welcome to the list. I look fwd to many fruitful
exchanges.
MFH
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