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REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years
Studies in Early English Drama 8
Edited by Audrey Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean
University of Toronto Press © 2006
Cloth: $70 264pp
ISBN 0-8020-3827-1
In 2002, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project marked its
twenty-fifth anniversary with a special series of sessions at the
International Medieval Congress at Leeds University. The REED sessions
were designed to allow critical reflection on the past, present, and
future of the project as it entered the twenty-first century. Thirteen
essays amplifying the content of selected conference papers, and a
fourteenth submitted at the editors’ invitation, make up REED in
Review.
Contributors to the collection describe the conception and early years
of REED, assess the project’s impact on recent and current scholarship,
and anticipate or propose stimulating new directions for future
research. Individual essays address a wide variety of subjects, from
the impact of REED research on Shakespeare textual editing, Robin Hood,
patronage, and Elizabethan theatre studies, to a thought provoking
redefinition of ‘drama,’ details of recent ground-breaking research in
Scottish records, and the broadening possibilities for editorial and
research relationships with information technology. The editors’
introduction and a select bibliography, with commentary and a list of
REED-related publications by editors and scholars from a variety of
disciplines, make up the remainder of this landmark volume.
Audrey Douglas is the editor of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Salisbury
dramatic records for the REED Series.
Sally-Beth MacLean is Associate Director and Executive Editor of the
Records of Early English Drama.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Audrey Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean 6
PART 1: FOUNDATION AND METHODOLOGY
The Founding of Records of Early English Drama
Alexandra Johnston, University of Toronto 23
Birthing the Concept: the First Nine Years
Sally-Beth MacLean, Records of Early English Drama 44
Practice makes Perfect: Policies for a Cross-Disciplinary Project
Abigail Young, Records of Early English Drama 59
PART 2: REED’S ‘PERFORMANCE’: IMPACT AND RESPONSE
Gathering in the Name of the Outlaw:REED and Robin Hood
John Marshall, University of Bristol 72
What Hath REED Wrought? REED and Patronage
Suzanne Westfall, Lafayette College 95
Margins to the Centre: REED and Shakespeare
Paul Werstine, King’s College, University of Western Ontario 112
Everything’s Back in Play: The Impact of REED Research on Elizabethan
Theatre History
Roslyn Knutson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock 130
PART 3: WHITHER REED?
REED and the Record Office: Tradition and Innovation on the Road to
Access
Sylvia Thomas, Former Senior Archivist, West Yorkshire Archive
Service 145
Roles in Life: The Drama of the Medieval Guilds
Gervase Rosser, St Catherine's College. Oxford University 156
Crossing the Border: The Provincial Records of South-East Scotland
Eila Williamson and John McGavin, University of Southampton 172
REED and the Possibilities of Emergent Web Technologies
James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, Oxford 193
Herodotus in the Labyrinth: REED and Hypertext
Jenn Stephenson, Queen’s University 220
Thinking Outside the Bard: REED, Repertory Canons, and Editing Early
English Drama
Tanya Hagen, University of Western Ontario 237
Using REED: A Select Bibliography
John Lehr, Records of Early English Drama 255
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