CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session, “Boundary-Breaking in the Theatrical Robin Hood Tradition,” IMC Leeds, July 4-7, 2022

 

CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session, “Boundary-Breaking in the Theatrical Robin Hood Tradition,” IMC Leeds, July 4-7, 2022

The Robin Hood tradition has a history of performance and theatricality. In addition to the medieval ballads, Robin Hood stories were conveyed using elements of theatricality, including early plays performed at May games, Whitsun ales, and revels; Early Modern stage drama; 18^th- and 19^th-century sung broadside ballads, Christmas plays, and operas; modern dramatic pieces; staged depictions of the outlaw in 19^th and 20^th-century operas, pantomimes, burlesques; and film. Theatricality, broadly construed, employs elements of music, stagecraft, or scripting.  This session seeks papers that explore any aspect(s) of how theatricality has broken boundaries to deliver the Robin Hood tradition to audiences. Send electronic abstracts of 250 words to Lorraine Kochanske Stock, lstock@uh.edu, by September 1, 2021.