Among the papers of the Strickland-Constable family of Wassand Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, now lodged at the East Riding Archives (ERA) office in Beverley, is a modest little booklet, of paper bound in a piece of recycled parchment, which is listed in the ERA catalogue as ‘Sir John Nevile’s memoranda book. 1595’.[1] […]
The annual conference of Durham’s Medieval and Early Modern Student Association is coming up on 11th-12th July, on the theme of Imitation and Innovation: Uses of the Past in the Medieval and Early Modern World. Our followers might be interested in this call for papers, deadline 14th April. The use of the past is a […]
A message from REED Head Office: “The Records of Early English Drama (REED) project is delighted to announce the launch of REED Online (ereed.library.utoronto.ca), its new open-access website. The site features REED’s first digital edition of dramatic records for the county of Staffordshire, encoded in TEI. Easily searched with a number of useful filters, online […]
The Medieval English Theatre Society meeting is coming up. Here are some details from their website: “Saturday 25 March 2017 Cultures of Performance: a Celebration of the Work of Philip Butterworth University of Glasgow This year the Medieval English Theatre Meeting on Cultures of Performance will be hosted by Pamela M. King and Eila Williamson […]
[Dr. Mark Chambers:] In December of 2016, I interviewed Ros Barnes, chief Wardrobe Mistress for the Summer 2016 St. Oswald’s play performances of the Anglo-Saxon Harrowing of Hell and Lawrence of Durham’s Peregrini – both feature productions in Durham’s Theatrum Mundi play festival last summer. In addition to creating the fabulous costumes for the St. […]
A revised and much more detailed index to York (1979), the first edition published by the Records of Early English Drama series, is now available on the REED Pre-publication Collections website. This index, prepared by York co-editor Magaret Rogerson, will greatly facilitate research on York’s entertainment history, as it corrects errors in the original printed […]
The Devil of Doncaster In 1614, Brian Cooke, ‘gentleman’ of Doncaster, complained to the Court of Star Chamber that Thomas Bevett, Original Bellamy, and twelve others, ten of them musicians, had defamed him. Motivated by “a long conceived and undeserved mallice” against him, the defendants, Cook claimed, conspired together to bring him into “disgrace, shame […]
Check out the highlights video from the Theatrum Mundi early drama festival, 7-12 July 2016:
Here are some more photos from the Theatrum Mundi performances in Durham, 7-12 July 2016: For more images from the performances, check out the Theatrum Mundi website at http://community.dur.ac.uk/theatrum.mundi/index.php/the-plays/
Following on from her presentation to the 2016 SITM/REED N-E Colloquium on 9 July, 2016, here is a link to a video of Betty Ellzey’s production of Lewis Wager’s Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene, staged by Shepherd University’s Rude Mechanicals Medieval and Renaissance Players (asst. by Jason McKahan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHkGE9FXYjU&feature=youtu.be Here are some accompanying […]