1st Edition

The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

By Peter Meredith, John Marshall Copyright 2018
380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

380 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Collected Studies CS1069 The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith’s major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group of scholars, represented here in the Shifting Paradigms series, determined to place the... Read more

Introduction Part I: Matters of Manuscript and Text1. ‘"Nolo Mortem" and the Ludus Coventriae Play of the Woman Taken in Adultery’, M¿, 38 (1969), pp. 38-542. ‘A Reconsideration of Some Textual Problems in the N-Town Manuscript (BL MS Cotton Vespasian D viii)’, LSE, n.s. 9 (1976-77), pp. 35-503. ‘John Clerke’s Hand in the York Register’, Essays in Honour of A.C. Cawley, ed. by Peter Meredith, LSE, n.s. 12 for 1980-81 (1981), pp. 245-714. ‘The York Millers’ Pageant and the Towneley Processus Talentorum’ METh, 4.2 (1982), pp. 104-145. ‘Scribes, Texts and Performances’ in Aspects of Early English Drama, ed. by Paula Neuss (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1984), pp. 13-296. ‘The Towneley cycle’ in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, ed. by Richard Beadle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, second edition, 2008), pp. 134-62, 2nd edn, pp.152-82.7. ‘Establishing an Expositor’s Role: Contemplacio and the N. Town Manuscript’ in The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre, ed. by Philip Butterworth (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 289-306Part II: Resuscitating Records8. ‘The Development of the Mercers’ Pageant Waggon’, METh, 1.1 (1979), pp. 5-189. ‘"Item for a grone – ijd" – Records and Performances’ in Proceedings of the First Colloquium at Ernindale College, University of Toronto, 31 Aug.-3 Sept. 1978, ed. by JoAnna Dutka (Toronto: Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto, 1979), pp. 26-6010. ‘The Ordo Paginarum and the Development of the York Tilemakers’ Pageant’, LSE, n.s. 11 for 1979 (1980), pp. 59-7311. ‘"Make the asse to speake" or Staging the Chester Plays’ in Staging the Chester Cycle, ed. by David Mills, Leeds Texts and Monographs, ns 9 (Leeds).

Biography

Peter Meredith is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama at the University of Leeds, UK.



John Marshall is Senior Research Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK.