Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama

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Acknowledgments Abbreviations 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Chester for Classroom and Performance STEPHEN F. PAGE SECTION III: CRITICAL ILLUMINATION: ENGLISH LITERATURE * Using Historical Documents in the Literature Classroom: Elizabethan and Jacobean Church Court Cases ANNE BRANNEN * Teaching Poems from Robert Herrick's Hesperides with the Aid of REED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