Announcements

• Editors' Response (June 2021) to RaceB4Race Open Letter

  2021-07-06

  This statement summarizing the Early Theatre editorial team's response to RaceB4Race's June 2020 open letter was first published as part of the Editorial (now available via open access) for our 24.1 (June 2021) issue. 

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• Award for Teramura's 'The Admiral's "Vayvode" of 1598'

  2016-04-12

  Misha Teramura's Early Theatre article 'The Admiral’s "Vayvode’ of 1598" receives Honorable Mention for the Renaissance Society of America's annual RSA-TCP Article Prize in Digital Renaissance Research 2015. Read More Read more about Award for Teramura's 'The Admiral's "Vayvode" of 1598'

• Early Theatre goes digital

  2015-12-22

  The current issue of Early Theatre (18.2, December 2015) is the last to be published on paper. Starting with 19.1 (June 2016) ET/REED will become a digital journal only. Read More Read more about Early Theatre goes digital

• Staging the Henrican Court

  2014-08-26

  Following the August 2009 production of The Play of the Weather at Hampton Court, the Staging the Henrician Court website was launched at www.stagingthecourt.org. As a leading edge development in arts and humanities research, we are always looking to learn from and develop the use of the internet for collaborative research. Read More Read more about Staging the Henrican Court

• Richard Brome Online: Researchers bring historical work into the digital age

  2014-08-26

  Today, March 1st 2010, marks the launch of a unique online edition of the collected plays of dramatist, Richard Brome, which marks the culmination of a four-year project directed by researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Sheffield. Read More Read more about Richard Brome Online: Researchers bring historical work into the digital age

• SYMPOSIUM: DRAMA AND RELIGION 1555-1575: THE CHESTER CYCLE IN CONTEXT

  2014-08-26

  The Chester 2010 Symposium explores the Chester Cycle in its original context, and in the context of the concurrent Chester 2010 research-based Performance. We welcome registrants from the general public as well as registrants affiliated with academic institutions. Read More Read more about SYMPOSIUM: DRAMA AND RELIGION 1555-1575: THE CHESTER CYCLE IN CONTEXT

• PERFORMANCE: CREATION TO JUDGEMENT - THREE DAYS - TWENTY-THREE PLAYS

  2014-08-26

  During the reign of Elizabeth I, the citizens of Chester performed their ancient Catholic cycle of Biblical plays each year at Whitsuntide. From the Fall of Lucifer before Creation to the Last Judgment, each episode - performed on a wagon - rolled through the city streets in a three-day celebration of the old religion. Read More Read more about PERFORMANCE: CREATION TO JUDGEMENT - THREE DAYS - TWENTY-THREE PLAYS

• Chester 2010 Review Articles

  2014-08-26

  A collaborative review article, entitled “Seduction and Salvation: Chester 2010 in Review” by Jessica Dell, Erin Julian, and Chantelle Thauvette, will be featured in the upcoming September 2010 issue of Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama.

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• Early Theatre: Special Issue on Women and Performance: Summer 2012

  2014-08-08

  From REED and the growing body of work by comparatists and theater historians, we now know that early modern women, including Englishwomen and foreign players, performed at all social levels and in all performance spaces except the all-male stage. Read More Read more about Early Theatre: Special Issue on Women and Performance: Summer 2012