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Dr Margaret Rogerson

Dr Margaret Rogerson

PhD Leeds MA
Senior Lecturer

+61 2 9351 2308

Research Groups

Current project

  • A study of the World Youth Day Stations of the Cross, 2008 and their relevance to medieval theatre.

Selected publications

  • Playing a Part in History: The York Mysteries 1951-2006. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
  • Records of Early English Drama: York, 2 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979.
  • 'The Coventry Corpus Christi Play: a “lost” Middle English Creed Play?’, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 36 (1997), 143-77.
  • "English Puppets and the survival of Religious Theatre", Theatre Notebook 52.2 (1998), 91-111.
  • "The Wife of Bath: standup comic", Sydney Studies in English 24 (1998-9), 3-20.
  • "Reading the Patchworks in Alias Grace", Journal of Commonwealth Literature 33.1 (1998), 5-22.
  • 'The Truman Show: an Everyman for the late 1990s’, Sydney Studies in English, 26 (2000), 25- 44.
  • "Raging in the streets of medieval York", Early Theatre
  • '“Everybody got their brown dress”: Mystery Plays for the Millennium’, New Theatre Quarterly, 66 (2001), 123-40.
  • 'Rediscovering Richard Eurich’s “York Festival Triptych”, Medieval English Theatre 23 (2002 for 2001), 3-16.
  • The York Mystery Plays: Waggon Production 2002, 7 and 14 July. An Illustrated Report
  • 'Living History: the modern Mystery Plays in York', Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 43 (2004), 12-28.
  • ‘Australian “Everymans”: Post-Medieval Spiritual Adventurers’ in Stephanie Trigg, ed., Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture, Brepols: Turnhout, 2005, pp. 81-97.
  • ‘Prime-Time Drama: Canterbury Tales for the Small Screen’, Sydney Studies in English 232 (2006), 45-63.
  • ‘Explaining the “Mysteries”: Medieval Theatre and Modern Fictions’ in Ruth Evans, Helen Fulton and David Matthews, eds., Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), pp. 255-67.
  • with Betsy Taylor, ‘Teaching without Texts: Early English Drama for Performance Studies Students’ in Elza C. Tiner, ed., Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), pp. 48-69.
  • ‘Records of Early English Drama: York, volume 3, the “Revivals”’ in David N. Klausner and Karen S. Marsalek eds., ‘Bring furth the Pagants’: Essays in Early English Drama Presented to Alexandra F. Johnston (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), pp. 132-61.
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Areas of teaching and Specific Topics

Teaching

  • Medieval literature and performing arts
  • The legacy of the Middle Ages in later literature and popular culture
  • Medieval manuscript culture
  • Shakespeare
  • Margaret Atwood.

Specific Topics

  • English theatre to 1642
  • Revival of medieval theatre for modern audiences
  • Margaret Atwood.
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