Alan Nelson has an announcement to share, guaranteed to be of interest  
to our REED editors and wider network. The SAA theatre history seminar  
for 2019 will be scheduled sometime between 17-20 April 2019 in  
Washington, DC. Details can be found on the SAA website,  
http://www.shakespeareassociation.org/.


5PP: Players, Playwrights, Playhouses, Plays, and Parishes

Alan H. Nelson (University of California, Berkeley)


Early Modern playhouses were built in parishes; playhouse owners, players,
and playwrights often served as parish officers. Printers resided in
parishes, usually in or near their shops. Records of Early English Drama
(REED) has shown that parishes produced, consumed, and opposed plays and
players.

This seminar invites papers on parishes as sites of theatrical activity.
Especially welcome will be papers citing parish documents: registers,
churchwarden's accounts, vestry books etc.











Dear Sally-Beth:

I don't know that I've told you explicitly that the "Theater History"
seminar I proposed for SAA 2019 has been approved:

5PP: Players, Playwrights, Playhouses, Plays, and Parishes

Alan H. Nelson (University of California, Berkeley)


Early Modern playhouses were built in parishes; playhouse owners, players,
and playwrights often served as parish officers. Printers resided in
parishes, usually in or near their shops. Records of Early English Drama
(REED) has shown that parishes produced, consumed, and opposed plays and
players.
This seminar invites papers on parishes as sites of theatrical activity.
Especially welcome will be papers citing parish documents: registers,
churchwarden's accounts, vestry books etc.


I drew up this description in an attempt to attract REED editors, among
others, who will probably have worked with parish documents. No hurry, but
when you have a chance, maybe you could distribute this description, with
an invitation, to REED editors.


All's well here in London,


Alan






On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Sally-Beth MacLean <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi Alan, I’m here at home base until the end of June, give or take a few
> quick runs to our country seat. Glad to hear that Essex is surfacing in
> your research schedule —I’ve been talking to John Craig about SSHRC grant
> prospecting so REED-EA and the burgeoning Suffolk collection have been a
> topic.
>
> I’d be glad to have a chat about IOC when Paul and I land on the 30th —or
> sooner via Skype if you prefer. Diane has a huge challenge as it is this
> year with the exploratory phase of development for what we hope will go
> forward for bigger Mellon funding but that doesn’t mean that you and I
> can’t move forward in our thinking on the sidelines. There’s a REED London
> Online meeting in early August that I’m flying over for (again) so that
> should provide an occasion for forecasting next steps with her. She has no
> funding this year for pal-checking as you may already know so Patrick is
> booked to finish Hants work and launch into Roz’s section of Wiltshire —
> wonderful to think that we might close the south coast collections!
>
> I know Diane will be in touch with you soon about RLO progress, hoping to
> bring you closer into the loop. Kathy has just started up as a TEI tag team
> member now that Berks is launched so there’s a dual focus in house now,
> Hants and digital IOC.
>
> Please give my greetings to Bob — oh to be in London now that spring is
> there, S-B
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Apr 27, 2018, at 6:33 PM, Alan H. NELSON <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Sally-Beth:
>
> Where are you now?
>
> I saw Stephanie last night at a lecture, and chatted with her over dinner.
> She seemed in good form.
>
> I gave a talk to the Inner Temple, including on an important record of a
> Grand Christmas in 1526. John Baker the legal historian, also from Inner
> Temple, was in the audience, letting me know in a polite way during Q & A
> that he knew more about the entry than I did. But he reminded me of his
> two-volume list of early members of the Inns of Court, which will be a
> great help when we come to digitizing and posting our volumes. One issue we
> will have to face is how to add new material to what was in the printed
> volumes. This is something that should be discussed with Diane, but we
> should start to think about it now.
>
> Come May (Tuesday) I intend to begin work on Essex, and, as you probably
> know, Jim Stokes et al. will be gathering at the Skinners' Arms on June 1
> for a discussion of East Anglia.
>
> I see Bob Tittler at the BL, and we intend to have a bite or coffee
> together soon.
>
> Hope you and Paul and your whole gang are well,
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:10 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> This is mainly to let you know that John returned the flat keys to me
>> yesterday so all is well and I expect that we will be next to use them the
>> morning of Saturday, 30 June when we fly in for our brief stay.
>>
>> We look forward to seeing you then. Could we treat you for dinner
>> somewhere of your preference the night of our arrival?
>>
>> Sally-Beth
>>
>>
>