Invaluable to students and scholars but notoriously difficult to use, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) include accurate transcriptions of all surviving documentary evidence of dramatic, ceremonial, and minstrel activities in England up to the closing of the theaters in 1640. In these 13 articles experts give directions and lesson ideas that make the most of REED. Disciplines and topics include theater history, with articles on historical fiction and teaching the Whisun plays of Tudor Chester; performance preparation, with articles on research, teaching without texts, and using the Chester plays in the classroom and performance; English literature, including using Elizabethan and Jacobean church court cases and teaching poems by Herrick; social history, including using REED documents to teach early modern English history and women's studies as well as paleography; and language history, including teaching diachronic linguistics and language. The collection includes an article introducing undergraduates to documents in REED. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
As a practical and much needed companion to the REED volumes, Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama will prove invaluable to both students and teachers of Medieval English Drama.
Since the appearance of the first volume in 1979, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) series has made available an accurate and useable transcription of all surviving documentary evidence of dramatic, ceremonial, and minstrel activity in Great Britain up to the closing of the theatres in 1642. Although they are immensely valuable to scholars, the REED volumes sometimes prove difficult for students to use without considerable assistance. With this book, Elza Tiner aims to make the records accessible for classroom use. The contributors to the volume describe the various ways in which students can learn from working with these documents. Divided into five sections, the volume illustrates how specific disciplines can use the Records to provide resources for students including ways to teach the historical documents of early English drama, training students in acting and producing, historical contexts for the interpretation of literature, as well as the study of local history, women s studies, and historical linguistics. As a practical and much needed companion to the REED volumes, Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama will prove invaluable to both students and teachers of Medieval English Drama.
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