JAMES DAYBELL, The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512-1635. * ANNE DUNAN-PAGE and CLOTILDE PRUNIER (eds), Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-471
Author(s):  
T. Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Letter Writing

Drama and ceremony in early modern England: the REED project

Urban History ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 38-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally-Beth MacLean
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Stated Goal ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
Early English

In 1976 a medieval and renaissance theatre history project was launched under the masthead Records of Early English Drama (now more familiarly known as REED). The official launch had taken two years of planning by scholars from Britain, Canada and the United States, and was given assurance for the future through a ten-year major Editorial Grant from the Canada Council. REED's stated goal – then as now – was to find, transcribe and publish evidence of dramatic, ceremonial and musical activity in Great Britain before the theatres were closed in 1642. The systematic survey undertaken would make available for analysis records relating to the evolution of English theatre from its origins in minstrelsy, through the flowering of drama in the renaissance, to the suppression first of local and then of professional entertainment under the Puritans.

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