Authors writing about medieval or Shakespearian performance styles and stages?

[wetheplants]

Hey guys,
Does anyone know any practicing academics (or departments) that are working on reconstruction research in Medieval or Early modern drama? Like, not just talking about what's in the texts themselves, but also writing about stuff that would be more in performance theory/history, like stage conventions, performance styles, stages, etc.
The only person I've been able to find so far is Alan Dessen, who has a great article about Elizabethan Stage Conventions.
I'm particularly interested in people who are using a more literary methodology like Dessen is, but I'm happy to hear about anyone! And definitely medieval drama.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm hoping to pursue this interest in an MA next year but I'm having a hard time finding anyone who even specializes in this kind of thing. Everyone who does drama seems to just looking exclusively at the writing!

Thank you so much!
 

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I don't know how much this helps (I'm also not a drama or early modern person really), but Vadnais teaches at my (undergrad) college. The only thing I know of that he's published is a book of short stories, but I saw him present his dissertation when the school was considering hiring him for the English department here and it was pretty impressive. It was all about how Shakespeare wrote and revised his plays so as to be more easily memorized for his actors. Lots of manuscript/book history as well as performance theory.