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Thanks, Sandy. He was also one of the early board members of Early Theatre, and will be sadly missed for his common sense and direct truth-telling. He was a pleasure to work with. Best, Helen (for Melinda, Erin, Sarah, and all the board members) Dr H M Ostovich <[log in to unmask]> Editor, *Early Theatre* <http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/> Professor Emeritus, English and Cultural Studies McMaster University Hamilton ON L8S 4L9 Canada On 12 June 2014 10:09, Suzanne Westfall <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks for the note Sandy. One of our founding fathers, as it were. We > so need some young recruits to keep REED going, it seems. > > Best, > SRW > > > > On Jun 12, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Carolyn Black <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > > From Alexandra Johnston: > > > > We learned today that Larry Clopper, one of REED's first editors, has > died in Bloomington, Indiana. > > > > I first met Larry at the Medieval Drama Seminar at the Modern Language > Association in Chicago in 1973 when Margaret Dorrell Rogerson and myself > who were editing the York records, Larry who was editing the Chester > records and David Galloway who was editing the Norwich records had been > invited to give papers on our work. It was at that meeting that the idea of > REED was born and from the beginning Larry was an active partner. His > edition of the Chester records was well advanced by the time REED was > operational in 1976 and the fledgling editorial team in Toronto was able to > form REED's editorial policies as two very different collections -- Chester > and York -- were being processed. Both collections were published in 1979. > Larry was a longstanding member of the REED Advisory Board from the > beginning of the project. Although his scholarly interests widened after > the publication of the Chester volume to include other areas of Middle > English literature such as Piers Plowman, he responded gamely to the > suggestion of a second edition of his Chester records in the context of the > records of Cheshire edited by Elizabeth Baldwin and David Mills. This > collection was published in 2007 almost 30 years after his original > research. All three editors were at the launch in Chester and those of us > there were treated to a spirited but amicable debate between Larry and > David about the pageant route standing on the streets of Chester in the > pouring rain. We note with sadness that Larry and David -- two great REED > men of Chester -- have died within a year of each other. > > > > Larry made other important contributions to the study of early theatre > and its cultural context particularly through his controversial book Drama, > Play and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern > Period (2001). He loved an argument and would defend his ideas with great > vigour -- but such debates were invariably followed by a glass of good wine > or a great meal in a restaurant he had just discovered. He will be missed > by all of us in the REED community. >