REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years

REED has done much to effect a paradigm shift in early theater studies, diminishing our obsession with city- and author-centered research by offering a wealth of information about anonymous, untitled entertainments performed in houses, churches, guildhalls, and market squares all over England, Scotl...

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Published inShakespeare Quarterly Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 392 - 394
Main Author Slights, William W. E
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Folger Shakespeare Library 01.10.2007
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Collinson, Peter
Cultural factors
Drama
Essays
Holland, John
Johnston, Alexandra F
Marshall, Paul
Nonfiction
Religion
Research methodology
Studies
Theater
England
Scotland
California
United Kingdom > UK
Wales
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Summary:REED has done much to effect a paradigm shift in early theater studies, diminishing our obsession with city- and author-centered research by offering a wealth of information about anonymous, untitled entertainments performed in houses, churches, guildhalls, and market squares all over England, Scotland, and Wales. Presenting the records shire by shire has opened up fresh approaches to this early culture of entertainment-for instance, to multilevel patronage studies and carefully mapped theatrical tours-and has placed the special case of London theater and its preeminent playwright in a broad, highly informative cultural context.
ISSN:0037-3222
1538-3555
1538-3555
DOI:10.1353/shq.2007.0051