Christopher Swift Wins Bevington Prize for Book on Medieval Theatre

Christopher Swift (Humanities) has won this year’s Bevington Prize from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) for his book, Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville: Performing Empire. The committee of judges wrote, “Swift’s impressive monograph brings Iberian theater out of the blind-spot of the field of early drama studies and teaches us something new about medieval theatrical traditions that have gone overlooked and understudied while also making important and exciting contributions to current theories of performance and performativity. The committee found Swift’s book innovative, engaging, and beautifully expressed.”