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Congratulations form me too! Helen Dr H M Ostovich <[log in to unmask]> http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~english/Faculty/Ostovich.html Founding Editor, *Early Theatre* <http://earlytheatre.org/ <http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/earlytheatre/>> Series Editor, Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama https://www.routledge.com/performance/series/SPEMD Series Editor, Late Tudor and Stuart Drama ( https://mip-archumanitiespress.org/series/mip/late-tudor-stuart-drama/) Professor Emerita, English and Cultural Studies McMaster University Hamilton ON L8S 4L9 Canada On 19 April 2018 at 17:29, Diane Jakacki <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > >