Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama / / Elza C. Tiner.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Tiner, Elza C.,
• 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

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illustrates how specific disciplines can use the Records to provide resources for students including ways to teach the historical documents of early English drama, training students in acting and producing, historical contexts for the interpretation of literature, as well as the study of local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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- SECTION I: VITAL EVIDENCE: THEATRE HISTORY -- 1. The Audience of Early Drama: REED and the Techniques of Historical Fiction / Johnston, Alexandra F. -- 2. Using REED in Teaching the Whitsun Plays of Tudor Chester / Mills, David -- SECTION II: DOCUMENTS IN ACTION: PERFORMANCE PREPARATION -- 3. 'It's as if I'm really doing research!' / Blackstone, Mary A. -- 4. Teaching without Texts: Early English Drama for Performance Studies Students / Rogerson, Margaret / Taylor, Betsy -- 5. Using REED Chester for Classroom and Performance / Page, Stephen F. -- SECTION III: CRITICAL ILLUMINATION: ENGLISH LITERATURE -- 6. Using Historical Documents in the Literature Classroom: Elizabethan and Jacobean Church Court Cases / Brannen, Anne -- 7. Teaching Poems from Robert Herrick's Hesperides with the Aid of REED Documents / Betcher, Gloria J. -- SECTION IV: DRAMATIC ACTIVITY: SOCIAL HISTORY -- 8. The Use of REED Documents in Teaching Early Modern English History / Hays, Rosalind Conklin -- 9. 'The husbandry and manage of my house': Teaching Women's Studies from the Records of Early English Drama Collections / Palmer, Barbara D. -- 10. Palaeography in the Undergraduate Drama Class: Teaching the Secret Life of Documents / Stokes, James -- SECTION V: ENTERTAINING RECORDS: LANGUAGE HISTORY -- 11. REED and Language Teaching / Young, Abigail Ann -- 12. Going to HEL: REED and Diachronic Linguistics / Tiner, Elza C. -- SECTION VI: REFERENCES -- 13. Introducing Undergraduates to Documents in REED Collections / Hays, Rosalind Conklin -- REED Collections -- Works Cited -- List of Contributors -- Index