REED in Review : : Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years / / Sally-Beth Maclean, Audrey Douglas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Douglas, Audrey,; Maclean, Sally-Beth,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Early English Drama
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In 2002, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project marked its twenty-fifth anniversary with a special series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University. The REED sessions were designed to allow critical reflection on the past, present, and future of the project as it entered the twenty-first century. Thirteen essays amplifying the content of selected conference papers, and a fourteenth submitted at the editors' invitation, make up REED in Review.Contributors to the collection describe the conception and early years of REED, assess the project's impact on recent and current scholarship, and anticipate or propose stimulating new directions for future research. Individual essays address a wide variety of subjects, from the impact of REED research on Shakespeare textual editing, Robin Hood, patronage, and Elizabethan theatre studies, to a thought provoking redefinition of 'drama,' details of recent ground-breaking research in Scottish records, and the broadening possibilities for editorial and research relationships with information technology. The editors' introduction and a select bibliography, with commentary and a list of REED-related publications by editors and scholars from a variety of disciplines, make up the remainder of this landmark volume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Douglas, Audrey / Maclean, Sally-Beth -- PART 1. Foundation and Methodology -- The Founding of Records of Early English Drama / Johnston, Alexandra F. -- Birthing the Concept: The First Nine Years / Maclean, Sally-Beth -- 'Practice Makes Perfect': Policies for a Cross-Disciplinary Project / Young, Abigail Ann -- PART 2. REED's 'Performance': Impact and Response -- Gathering in the Name of the Outlaw: REED and Robin Hood / Marshall, John -- What Hath REED Wrought? REED and Patronage / Westfall, Suzanne -- Margins to the Centre: REED and Shakespeare / Werstine, Paul -- Everything's Back in Play: The Impact of REED Research on Elizabethan Theatre History / Knutson, Roslyn L. -- PART 3. Whither REED? -- REED and the Record Office: Tradition and Innovation on the Road to Access / Thomas, Sylvia -- Roles in Life: The Drama of the Medieval Guilds / Rosser, Gervase -- Crossing the Border: The Provincial Records of Southeast Scotland / Williamson, Eila / Mcgavin, John J. -- REED and the Possibilities of Web Technologies / Cummings, James -- Herodotus in the Labyrinth: REED and Hypertext / Stephenson, Jenn -- Thinking Outside the Bard: REED, Repertory Canons, and Editing Early English Drama / Hagen, Tanya -- Using REED: A Select Bibliography / Lehr, John -- Contributors -- Index