The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts,... - 9781472486288

Taylor & Francis

The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and StagingShifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies\nAuthor(s): Peter Meredith, John Marshall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472486288, 978-1472486288\nSynopsis\nCollected Studies CS1069\n\nThe essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Merediths major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group of scholars, represented here in the Shifting Paradigms series, determined to place the study of medieval drama in a broader context than that of solely reading texts. The publication of Records of Early English Drama, the University of Leeds facsimiles of medieval drama manuscripts, the establishment of the journal and annual meetings of Medieval English Theatre, brought .