Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama

ROMARD is an annual journal of medieval and non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, focusing on theatre and textual history. Manuscripts should be submitted to the Editor at greenfield@ups.edu. Snail mail: Peter Greenfield, Department of English, CMB 1045,University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416-1045, USA. Documentation style should resemble that used by Shakespeare Quarterly. Manuscripts accepted for publication will be requested on computer disk or via e-mail attachment.

Subscription payments should be directed to Peter Greenfield at the address above. The subscription rate for 2007 is $12 for individuals ($20 for two years) and $18 a year for institutions ($18 a year for individuals, $24 for institutions outside the United States). Some back issues are available.

Note: Members of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society receive ROMARD as one of the benefits of membership. To join, visit the organization's website.

RORD (ISSN 0098-647X) is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Contents of Volume 47 (2008)

ROBERT W. BARRETT, JR., Royal Freight: City-Crown Negotiations in Anthony Munday’s 1610 London’s Love to the Royal Prince Henry
VIMALA PASUPATHI, The King’s Privates: Sex and the Soldier’s Place in John Fletcher’s The Humorous Lieutenant (ca. 1618)
STEPHEN K. WRIGHT, Wrangling Livestock, Dragons, and Children: Practical Stagecraft and Its Thematic Consequences in the Augsburg St. George Play (ca. 1486)
DAVID M. BERGERON, A Murdered Playwright, a Presumptuous Actor, and The Martyred Soldier
ELZA C. TINER, Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Late Medieval England: Giles of Rome on Rhetoric and Acting
MACD. P. JACKSON, New Research on the Dramatic Canon of Thomas Kyd
KELLEY COSTIGAN AND MARTIN WIGGINS, Census of Renaissance Drama Productions

Contents of Volume 46 (2007):

JENNIFER ROBERTS-SMITH, The Queen’s Men: The Research-Performance Experiments
JILL STEVENSON, The York Mystery Cycle, July 2006: Negotiating Past and Present
VICTOR I. SCHERB, The York Mystery Plays 2006
CLIFFORD DAVIDSON, The York Corpus Christi Plays and Visual Piety
TRACEY MILLER-TOMLINSON, Hybrid Gender, Hybrid Nation: Race, Sexuality, and the Making of National Identity in Fletcher’s Bonduca
MACD. P. JACKSON, The Date and Authorship of Thomas of Woodstock: Evidence and its Interpretation
JANE COWLING, Performance at Winchester College, 1396-1642
RICHARD LEVIN, Occult Interior Design in Jonson’s Day and Ours, and a New Source for The Alchemist
KELLEY COSTIGAN AND MARTIN WIGGINS, Census of Renaissance Drama Productions

Contents of Volume 45 (2006):

SARAH SCOTT, “Sell[ing] your selues away”: Pathologizing and Gendering the Socio-Economic in The Honest Whore, Part I
PETER HAPPÉ, The Towneley Cycle without the Wakefield Master
JEREMY LOPEZ, Census of Renaissance Drama Performance Reviews in Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Survey, 1948-2005
JAMES SHAW, Census of Renaissance Drama Productions

Contents of Volume 44 (2005):

CLIFFORD DAVIDSON, “Corpus Christi Play” and the Feast of Corpus Christi

DAVID KATHMAN, Citizens, Innholders, and Playhouse Builders, 1543-1622

PETER HYLAND, Look About You, Anonymity, and the Value of Theatricality

WILLIAM LLOYD, John Webster and The London Prodigal: New Sources for The Devil’s Law-case

RITA BANERJEE, Women Pleas’d and Swetnam the Woman-hater Arraigned by Women: John Fletcher’s Participation in the Swetnam Debate and the Date of His Play

JAMES SHAW, Census of Renaissance Drama Productions

Contents of Volume 43 (2004):

PHILIP BUTTERWORTH, Is There Any Further Value to Be Gained from Re-Staging Medieval Theater?
MARGARET ROGERSON, Living History: the Modern Mystery Plays in York
KATIE NORMINGTON, The Actor/Audience Contract in Modern Restagings of the Mystery Plays
GARRETT P. J. EPP, Corected & not playd: an Unproductive History of the Towneley Plays
REBECCA ROGERS AND KATHLEEN E. MCLUSKIE, Which Early-Modern Playing Companies Were Commercially Successful?
MARY BLACKSTONE , Performance and the Intertextual Negotiation of Community: The Example of Elizabethan Leicester
JAMES SHAW, Census of Renaissance Drama Productions
PETER GREENFIELD, Census of Medieval Drama Productions

Contents of Volume 42 (August 2003):

v LUCY MUNRO, Early Modern Drama and the Repertory Approach

v AXEL STDHLER, The Arduous Path to the True Temple of Love

v DIANA PRICE, Henslowe’s “ne” and “the tyeringe-howse doore”

v CHARLES WHITNEY, Tamburlaine and Self-Shattering, 1605: Applying the New Reception Theories

v ANNE RUSSELL, The Politics of Print and The Tragedie of Antonie

v ELIZABETH SCHAFER, Census of Renaissance Drama Productions

v VICTOR I. SCHERB, “I’de have a shooting”: Catherine of Aragon’s Receptions of Robin Hood

v MICHELLE M. BUTLER, Direct Address and Incarnational Theology in the York Cycle: The Word Made Flesh / The Flesh Made Word

v PETER GREENFIELD, Census of Medieval Drama Productions

Contents of Volume 41 (August 2002):

v Recycling “The Wakefield Cycle”: The Records by Barbara D. Palmer

v The Destruction of Jerusalem: An Annotated Checklist of Plays and Performances, ca. 1350-1620 by Stephen K. Wright

v The Hood and the Basket: Image and Word in the Digby Conversion of St. Paul by Chester N. Scoville

v Saint Paul’s Horse and Related Problems by Jeff S. Dailey

v Mankind for Africa by Margaret Mary Raftery

v Determining Authorship: A New Technique by Macd. P. Jackson

v Snakeskins, Mirrors and Torches: Theatrical Iconography and Middleton’s The Witch by Marion O’Connor

v Who Invested in Early Modern Theatre? by Rebecca Rogers and Kathleen E. McLuskie

v Tethys Takes Charge: Queen Anne as Theatrical Producer by Melissa D. Aaron

Table of Contents 1994-2001

Photographs of productions of medieval drama discussed in RORD

York Cycle at Toronto, 1998 : Photos by Megan Lloyd (King's College, PA) to accompany her article, "Reflections of a York Survivor: The York Cycle and Its Audience," in RORD 39 (2000)

Peter Greenfield, Department of English
Contact: greenfield@ups.edu