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Congratulations! This is a welcome resource. Elza C. Tiner On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 5:18 PM Carolyn Black <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear REED-L, > > > Alan Somerset wishes to make the following announcement: > > > *"*Alan Somerset is very pleased to announce the publication of his new > website, Performers without Patrons. (https://playerswithoutpatrons.ca > <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplayerswithoutpatrons.ca%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0hiz2yJbSZshYqTJhtnrrkTTlRQM597NnK6ooDy8SrkUgrGO-he6yRpwg&h=AT1jtrDm5sppakjAsSCliz1onNUNj24-FPeV0zuwWrbWWzIp7rJq8GRPPA5dFGcIeOu7sCdmpAR0kjXmr4hU65i_76NpeDrNw_h32207qn_ItUacWTccD4rEVjO1xx02ovWNPgvvHQWi0dSvPNfX6NE1Usit>) > This site extends the scope of the REED website, Patrons and Performances, > by presenting an index to the over 3700 records of performers on tour > before 1642, for whom no patron was recorded. These represent a little over > a third of the total records of performers outside London in the period. > Over 935 of these performers without patrons were professional touring > players; their patrons’ names were often omitted simply by accident. Beyond > professional actors, these records bring to light a multitude of performer > types – musicians, minstrels, waits, acrobats, freaks, bearwards, > lion-tamers, camel-keepers and many others. These records of performers > without patrons allow us more fully to understand the contexts from which > grew the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries." > > -- Professor of Latin & English School of Humanities College of Arts & Sciences University of Lynchburg Lynchburg, VA 24501