Traditional Drama, Music, and Custom in Early Suffolk

FAIN: FB-52244-06

James Stokes
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (Stevens Point, WI 54481-3871)

The objective of this project is to complete a two-volume edition, The Dramatic Records of Suffolk, for publication in the REED (Records of Early English Drama) Series, University of Toronto Press. Building on work begun during my sabbatical in 2005-06, I plan to use the fellowship to complete my exhaustive search of relevant documentary records for evidences of drama, music, custom, and ceremony through 1642; to edit and translate (where necessary) the accumulated discoveries; to develop the many elements of scholarly apparatus found in REED volumes; and to submit the completed manuscript for publication.

Associated Products

"The Ongoing Exploration of Women and Performance in Early Modern England:Evidences, Issues, and Questions" (Article)
Title: "The Ongoing Exploration of Women and Performance in Early Modern England:Evidences, Issues, and Questions"
Author: James Stokes
Abstract: The conventional view, promulgated in standard histories and taught in schools, is that women first took part in public performance in England during the Restoration. Using copious archival evidence, this essay demonstrates that women participated in drama, custom, and ceremony in England from earliest times, interrupted only during the puritan reforms of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and that the evidences are of many kinds, as are the varieties of performance.
Year: 2015
Access Model: open
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Shakespeare Bulletin
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Prizes

The Barbara Palmer Award for the best new essay in early drama archival research
Date: 5/1/2016
Organization: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society

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