Records of Early English Drama
FAIN: RQ-50114-04
University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA 98416-5000)
Peter H. Greenfield (Project Director: November 2003 to November 2006)
Publication of county records of early English drama, including the two-volume Wales collection and the two-volume merged Cheshire and updated Chester collection.
This application requests NEH funding to support the REED editorial office at the University of Toronto, in order to bring the research of U.S. editors to reputable, accurate publication. Records of Early English Drama is an established international collaboration to identify, transcribe, edit, and publish records of pre-1642 entertainment in the British Isles.
Media Coverage
The Records of Early English Drama: Wales, ed. David N. Klausner (Review)
Author(s): William Proctor Williams
Publication: Notes and Queries
Date: 10/3/2008
Abstract: Williams describes REED as "undoubtedly the most important scholarly project in this field," and lauds the extension of the research beyond England, to include Welsh dramatic and musical activity in the period.
URL: http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/4/527.extract
REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years (Review)
Author(s): David Bevington
Publication: University of Toronto Quarterly
Date: 9/18/2011
URL: http://www.utpjournals.com/utq/utq.html
Review, Audrey Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean, eds., REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years.(Studies in Early English Drama, 8.) (Review)
Author(s): Richard K Emmerson
Publication: Speculum
Date: 9/18/2011
REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years (review) (Review)
Author(s): W.W.E. Slights
Publication: Shakespeare Quarterly
Date: 9/18/2011
"Wales" (Review)
Author(s): Gloria Betcher
Publication: Sixteenth Century Journal
Date: 9/19/2011
Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama [Wales] (Review)
Author(s): Mary Thomas Crane
Publication: Studies in English Literature
Date: 9/19/2011
Associated Products
REED in review : essays in celebration of the first twenty-five years (Book)Title: REED in review : essays in celebration of the first twenty-five years
Editor: Sally-Beth MacLean
Editor: Audrey W Douglas
Abstract: In 2002, the Records of Early English Drama project marked its 25th anniversary with a special series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University. This work contains essays that address a variety of subjects, from the impact of REED research on Shakespeare textual editing, Robin Hood, to the redefinition of 'drama'.
Year: 2006
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/reed-in-review-essays-in-celebration-of-the-first-twenty-five-years/oclc/64670406&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: WorldCat listing.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Type: Edited Volume
Records of Early Drama: Wales (Book)Title: Records of Early Drama: Wales
Editor: David N Klausner
Abstract: Presents a collection of documentary evidence for dramatic performance, minstrelsy, and civic ceremony in the Principality of Wales from the mid-fifth century to 1660.
Year: 2005
Primary URL:
http://www.archive.org/details/walesreed00brituoftPrimary URL Description: Internet Archive edition.
Secondary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/records-of-early-drama-wales/oclc/62579141&referer=brief_resultsSecondary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 0-8020-9072-9
Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama (Book)Title: Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama
Editor: Elza Tiner
Abstract: Divided into five sections, this volume illustrates how specific disciplines can use the "Records of Early English Drama" to provide resources for students including ways to teach the historical documents of early English drama. It is useful for both students and teachers of Medieval English Drama.
Year: 2006
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/teaching-with-the-records-of-early-english-drama/oclc/61755399&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: WorldCat listing.
Publisher: Univversity of Toronto Press
Type: Edited Volume
Patrons and Performances Web Site (Web Resource)Title: Patrons and Performances Web Site
Author: Jason Boyd
Author: Sally-Beth MacLean
Author: Alan Somerset
Abstract: The REED Patrons and Performances Web Site is designed to include a wide range of data about professional performers on tour in the provinces – their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom. Data on a large number of patrons and Performance venues were added to the database during this grant period.
Year: 2004
Primary URL:
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/reed/Primary URL Description: Gateway page for the Patrons and Performances database.
The Inherited Tradition (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The Inherited Tradition
Abstract: Lecture outlined how the discoveries Records of Early English Drama have changed previous beliefs about medieval and early modern drama. Part of a Smithsonian "Great Schools Forum" focusing on research projects at the University of Toronto.
Author: Alexandra F Johnston
Date: 05/01/2005
Location: Smithsonian, Washington, DC
The Elizabethan Theatre on Tour (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The Elizabethan Theatre on Tour
Abstract: A lecture introducing the Patrons and Performances website as a tool for in-depth research on the activities of Elizabethan acting companies. Part of a Smithsonian "Great Schools Forum" focusing on research projects at the University of Toronto.
Author: Sally-Beth MacLean
Date: 05/01/2005
Location: Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Stokes, James and Robert J. Alexander, eds. Records of Early English Drama, Volume I. The Records: Somerset, including Bath. (Book)Title: Stokes, James and Robert J. Alexander, eds. Records of Early English Drama, Volume I. The Records: Somerset, including Bath.
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 1996
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780802039057Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780802039057
Stokes, James and Robert J. Alexander, eds. Records of Early English Drama, Volume II. Editorial Apparatus: Somerset, including Bath (Book)Title: Stokes, James and Robert J. Alexander, eds. Records of Early English Drama, Volume II. Editorial Apparatus: Somerset, including Bath
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 1996
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780802057518Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780802057518
Hays, Rosalind, et al, eds. Records of Early English Drama: Dorset and Cornwall (Book)Title: Hays, Rosalind, et al, eds. Records of Early English Drama: Dorset and Cornwall
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 1999
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780802043795Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780802043795
James M Gibson, ed., Records of Early English Drama Kent: Diocese of Canterbury (Book)Title: James M Gibson, ed., Records of Early English Drama Kent: Diocese of Canterbury
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 2002
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780802087263Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780802087263
Gibson, James M., ed. The Records of Early English Drama. Kent: Diocese of Canterbury. Volume 1 (Book)Title: Gibson, James M., ed. The Records of Early English Drama. Kent: Diocese of Canterbury. Volume 1
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 2002
Publisher: London and Toronto: The British Library and the University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph
Gibson, James M., ed. The Records of Early English Drama. Kent: Diocese of Canterbury. Volume 2 (Book)Title: Gibson, James M., ed. The Records of Early English Drama. Kent: Diocese of Canterbury. Volume 2
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 2002
Publisher: London and Toronto: The British Library and the University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph
Jane Cowling, Peter H Greenfield, ed., Monks, Minstrels and Players: Drama in Hampshire before 1642 (Book)Title: Jane Cowling, Peter H Greenfield, ed., Monks, Minstrels and Players: Drama in Hampshire before 1642
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Hampshire County Council
Type: Single author monograph
Erler, Mary C., ed. Records of Early English Drama: Ecclesiastical London. (Book)Title: Erler, Mary C., ed. Records of Early English Drama: Ecclesiastical London.
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 2008
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780802098580Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780802098580
James Stokes, ed., Records of Early English Drama (Book)Title: James Stokes, ed., Records of Early English Drama
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Lincolnshire, University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph
John R. Elliott, Alan H. Nelson, ed., Records of Early English Drama (Book)Title: John R. Elliott, Alan H. Nelson, ed., Records of Early English Drama
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Inns of Court, Boydell and Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
Gibson, James M., ed. The Records of Early English Drama. Kent: Diocese of Canterbury. Volume 3. (Book)Title: Gibson, James M., ed. The Records of Early English Drama. Kent: Diocese of Canterbury. Volume 3.
Author: Greenfield, Peter H.
Year: 2002
Publisher: London and Toronto: The British Library and the University of Toronto Press
Type: Single author monograph