A play festival to accompany the fifteenth triennial colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval – jointly sponsored by the North East research team of Records of Early English Drama – will be held in Durham, England on 7-12 July, 2016. If you’re interested in contributing a production to the festival, please […]
The fifteenth triennial colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval, jointly sponsored by the North East research team of Records of Early English Drama, will be held in Durham, England on 7-12 July, 2016. You can find the official Call for Papers for the colloquium here: https://reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk/?page_id=650.
Hear our own Chief Investigator Professor John McKinnell talk to BBC Radio Newcastle’s Ingrid Hagemann about the work of the REED-NE project, including last month’s Flower (the death of Durham’s medieval tightrope walker), the infamous ‘Mother Naked’ and other interesting findings. For subscribers based in the UK, the interview will be available on BBC I-Player […]
This month’s flower comes from the catalogue of Locelli in the Durham Cathedral Muniments (Loc. VI.20), and seems to record the death of a 13th-century tightrope walker, performing on the towers of Durham Cathedral! The record concerns the King Henry III’s objections to the election of of a new bishop. It seems the the […]
‘William our bishope, hath oppugnant been … Confirme our graunt good King‘. This month’s Flower follows on from April’s, both of which concern James I royal visit to Durham in 1617. It too comes from the Order Book of the City of Durham (Durham County Archives ref. Du 1/4/4). In April’s Flower we noted that […]
Here are some more scenes from the 2014 York Mystery Plays, taken from the second Sunday of performance (20th July). They show: 1. The Baptism of Christ, St. Sampson’s Square (NOT an advert for Pizza Express!), brought forth by HIDDen Theatre Company (John the Baptist: Mark Burghagen; Jesus: Ehren Mierau; God: Charles Hunt; Angel 1: […]
Here are some photos of last Sunday’s York Mystery Plays (13 July 2014). They include: 1. The procession of The Shepherds’ Play, by the The Guild of Scriveners, showing the pageant wagon and a team of angels (processing up Minister Yard towards Deangate) 2. Christ before Annas and Caiaphas, by The Company of Cordwainers in […]
This is a general reminder that the 2014 performance of the York Mystery Plays starts on Sunday (13 July), with the second set of performances taking place a week later (20th). Members of the REED-NE team will be in attendance (some are taking part!). More information may be found here: http://www.yorkmysteryplays.co.uk/
Check out our new and updated ‘Related Websites’ page, which gives details of websites and links for various societies and scholarly journals – both in the UK and abroad – dedicated to the study of Medieval and Early Modern drama. You can find it at https://reed-ne.webspace.durham.ac.uk/?page_id=31 !
This month’s flower is the only record that survives from Beverley (East Riding of Yorkshire) to list props used in a pageant of the local Corpus Christi play. It’s an early document in the life of the Play (1392), contained in a bound volume now called the Great Guild Book, although it belonged to the […]