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Congratulations, all!! Wonderful news! Diane On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Betcher, Gloria J [ENGL] < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Wonderful news! Congratulations one and all. > > Gloria J. Betcher, Ph.D. > Adjunct Associate Professor of English > Department of English > Iowa State University > 419 Ross Hall > Ames, IA 50011 > > Office phone: (515) 294-3026 > ------------------------------ > *From:* REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion < > [log in to unmask]> on behalf of Sarah MacLean < > [log in to unmask]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 18, 2018 11:50:21 AM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* Re: REED: Berkshire Launched! > > REED: Berkshire, ed. Alexandra F. Johnston, Launched! > > Announcing REED?s second digital edition, for the county of Berkshire, > edited by Alexandra F. Johnston. Now freely available at REED Online: > https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/. > > We are pleased to make available the long-awaited records for > Berkshire and equally delighted that for the first time users will be > able to search across two collections for locations, people and a wide > range of topics, such as summer games or the King?s Men. We anticipate > an ever-growing list of results as more collections are published > online. > > The REED: Berkshire records illustrate a rich popular entertainment > tradition. The most prominent details of mimetic activity come from > the parish of St Laurence, Reading, which has preserved records > running from 1498 to 1573, among the fullest and richest in England. > Virtually every kind of mimetic activity is featured--an Easter play > with evidence from 1498 to 1537, an early sixteenth-century Creation > play, a Robin Hood game, morris dancing, church ales, maypoles, and > Hock gatherings. Reading was a stopping place for all kinds of late > medieval travelling entertainers as well as for some of the most > prominent professional companies, including Queen Elizabeth?s, the > earl of Leicester?s, and King James? players, along with those of > other royal family members in the early seventeenth century. Noble > households are also well represented in the collection, which includes > an edition of ?The Entertainment of Queen Elizabeth? by Lady Elizabeth > Russell at Bisham in 1592. > -- Diane Jakacki, Ph.D. Digital Scholarship Coordinator Faculty Associate in Comparative & Digital Humanities Bucknell University [log in to unmask] @DianeJakacki