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Here is our poster for A Medieval Christmas: Such Splendid Sight Was Never Seen. If you’ve seen previous PLS/St Thomas’s productions, prepare yourself for something a bit different!

Read about Mucedorus in “Shakespeare as reviser and collaborator?” – The Globe and Mail.

Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 / 7 pm
Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto

 
For several decades, Luella “Lou” Massey was a fixture and foundation stone of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama (recently renamed the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies) at the University of Toronto. In the spirit of Lou’s remarkable contribution, we are planning a party. On Wednesday, December 4th, 2013, we will gather to remember and celebrate Lou with stories, music, and dancing. The event will be held in the Hart House Theatre (Lou’s ‘home away from home’ for many years) on the University of Toronto campus. And we would very much like you to join us.

Many, many people have lasting memories of Lou, and we would like to make them part of the evening and part of Lou’s enduring legacy. We invite you to send us — by email, fax, or regular post — your “Most Vivid Memory of Luella Massey.” It need only be a few words of appreciation or a fond moment you shared, but we also welcome anecdotes and photographs (the latter, preferably, in electronic format). All submissions received will be included on a dedicated webspace, and a small group of Lou’s family and closest friends will select a number of these to be presented at the gathering.

For the purposes of planning, please RSVP by December 1 to Rebecca Biason at rebecca.biason@utoronto.ca. Your “Most Vivid Memory of Luella Massey” can be sent to the same email address, by fax to 416-971-1378, or by regular post to:

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
University of Toronto
214 College Street, 3rd floor
Toronto, ON
CANADA / M5T2Z9
Attention: Memories of Lou

Additional information about the event can also be sought from Rebecca, who will direct inquiries to the appropriate members of the event planning team.

We hope that as many as possible of Lou’s friends will be able to join us for an evening of reminiscence and celebration. Please feel free to distribute this invitation widely.

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies: http://dramacentre.utoronto.ca
Hart House Theatre: http://harthouse.ca/hart-house-theatre/
University of Toronto: http://www.utoronto.ca

The press release for Mucedorus is out. Here it is in PDF and HTML format.

Mucedorus is in two weeks! Have a look at the spiffy poster below.

Early Theatre 16.2 (2013) will be available in print and online to subscribers in December. The contents include articles and notes on medieval, tudor, and later early modern drama, and the announcement of our three prizes for best essays in vols 14 and 15. Our Issues in Review section is a particularly lively discussion of Tudor drama by five high-achieving scholars.

—Helen Ostovich

Announcement of Essay Prize Winners for volumes 14 and 15.

Articles

Procula’s Civic Body and Pilate’s Masculinity Crisis in the York Cycle’s ‘Christ Before Pilate 1: The Dream of Pilate’s Wife’
      Kimberly Fonzo

Aural Space, Sonorous Presence, and the Performance of Christian Community in the Chester Shepherds’ Play
      Andrew J. Albin

Advertising Status and Legitimacy: or, Why Did Henry VIII’s Queens and Children Patronize Travelling Performers?
      James H. Forse

Theatre and/as Witchcraft: A Reading of The Late Lancashire Witches (1634)
      Charlotte A. Coffin

‘Wanton Females of All Sorts’: Spectatorship in The Antipodes
      Nova Myhill

Notes

‘For now hath time made me his numbering clock’: Shakespeare’s Jacquemarts
      Wendy Beth Hyman

Cupid’s Grand Polititian (1657)
      David McInnis

Issues in review

New Approaches to Earlier Tudor Drama

      Contributing Editor: Erin E. Kelly

Introduction: Why Attend to Earlier Tudor Drama
      Erin E. Kelly

John Rastell’s London Stage: Reconstructing Repertory and Collaborative Practice
      Maura Giles-Watson

Ecocritical Heywood and The Play of the Weather
      Jennifer L. Ailles

New Contexts for Early Tudor Plays: William Briton, an Early Reader of Gorboduc
      Laura Estill

‘To see the Playes of Theatre newe wrought’: Electronic Editions and Early Tudor Drama
      Brett D. Hirsch

(see Early Theatre‘s website for more information)

Luella Massey
1953–2013

We at PLS are mourning the loss of a great colleague, friend and long-time PLS supporter, Luella Massey. From stage managing Castle of Perseverance to manning the Chester 2010 concessions tent, Lou was always there for the big events, and ever ready to help and advise us through the years. We will miss you, Lou, more than words can express.

Read the complete obituary here.

WoW! MLA International Bibliography has highlighted PLS-associated project Performing the Queen’s Men!

And now for our milestone Website of the Week (WoW) #100…… | MLA International Bibliography

Have a look at this terrific resource! You can also order PQM DVDs from us.