Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama

Elza C. Tiner is a professor in the Department of English at Lynchburg College.

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Introduction


SECTION I: VITAL EVIDENCE: THEATRE HISTORY




The Audience of Early Drama: REED and the Techniques of Historical Fiction

ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON
Using REED in Teaching the Whitsun Plays of Tudor Chester

DAVID MILLS

SECTION II: DOCUMENTS IN ACTION: PERFORMANCEPREPARATION




‘It’s as if I’m really doing research!’

MARY A. BLACKSTONE
Teaching without Texts: Early English Drama for Performance Studies Students

MARGARET ROGERSON and BETSY TAYLOR
Using REED Chester for Classroom and Performance

STEPHEN F. PAGE

SECTION III: CRITICAL ILLUMINATION: ENGLISH LITERATURE




Using Historical Documents in the Literature Classroom: Elizabethan and Jacobean Church Court Cases

ANNE BRANNEN
Teaching Poems from Robert Herrick’s Hesperides with the Aid of REED Documents

GLORIA J. BETCHER

SECTION IV: DRAMATIC ACTIVITY: SOCIAL HISTORY




The Use of REED Documents in Teaching Early Modern English History

ROSALIND CONKLIN HAYES
‘The husbandry and manage of my house’: TeachingWomen’s Studies from the Records of Early English Drama Collections

BARBARA D. PALMER
Palaeography in the Undergraduate Drama Class: Teaching the Secret Life of Documents

JAMES STOKES

SECTION V: ENTERTAINING RECORDS: LANGUAGE HISTORY




REED and Language Teaching

ABIGAIL ANNE YOUNG
Going to HEL: REED and Diachronic Linguistics

ELZA C. TINER

SECTION VI: REFERENCES




Introducing Undergraduates to Documents in REED Collections

ROSALIND CONKLIN HAYES

REED Collections

Works Cited

List of Contributors

Index