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John
Elliott, Alan Nelson, Alexandra F. Johnston, and Diana Wyatt, eds.
Records of Early
English Drama: Oxford (University and City).
University of Toronto Press, 2004.
2 vols., 1322pp.
Hardback ISBN 0802039057;
will be published in the UK and Europe by The British Library.
Publisher's
recommended price $300.00
The
Records of Early English Drama (REED) series aims to establish the
context for the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries by
examining the historical manuscripts that provide external evidence of
drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony
from the Middle Ages until Puritan legislation closed the London
theatres in 1642. Oxford (University
and City), the series' latest volume, brings together, for the
first time, all of the evidence for performance in the whole of Oxford,
including colleges, halls, university, town government, parish
churches, craft guilds, and ecclesiastical courts.
The collection includes unique eyewitness accounts of performances of
professional players including a description of the death of Desdemona
in Shakespeare's Othello. As with all volumes in the REED series,
Oxford (University and City) is transcribed from the original sources,
edited, and presented with explanatory notes, translations, and a
general introduction. The edition complements the material contained in
REED Cambridge (UTP, 1988), and allows scholars to better understand
academic drama in its local and collegiate contexts and to compare and
contrast the nature of academic drama in both cities.
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