The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging

The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith’s major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group of scholars, represented here in the Shifting Paradigms series, determined to place the study of medieval drama in a broader context than that of solely reading texts. The variety and depth of Meredith's comprehensive approach to the study of medieval drama and theatre is clearly evinced in each of the essays chosen for this volume.