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Congratulations to Sandy and the whole team! On 2018-04-18 12:50 PM, Sarah MacLean wrote: > 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. -- Dr Abigail Ann Young 303-45 Carlton St Toronto, ON 416-260-0193 http:/www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young http:/wrestlingwiththebible.ca