Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama

267 Pages·2006·12.019 MB·English

by  Elza C. Tiner

TEACHING WITH THE RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA
STUDIES IN EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA 7
General Editor: J.A.B. Somerset
EDITED BY ELZA C. TINER
Teaching with the
Records of Early English Drama
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-9082-9
ISBN-10: 0-8020-9082-6
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Teaching with the Records of early English drama / edited by Elza C. Tiner
(Studies in early English drama ; 8)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-9082-9
ISBN-10: 0-8020-9082-6
1. Performing arts - England - History - Study and teaching (Higher)
2. Theater - England - History - Study and teaching (Higher) 3. English
drama — Study and teaching (Higher) 4. Great Britain — History — Study and
teaching (Higher) I. Tiner, Elza C. II. Series. III. Title: Records of early English
drama.
PN2587.T42 2006 792'.0942 C2005-905774-2
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing
program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing
activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry
Development Program (BPIDP).
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction xiii
SECTION I: VITAL EVIDENCE: THEATRE HISTORY
1 The Audience of Early Drama: REED and the Techniques
of Historical Fiction 3
ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON
2 Using REED in Teaching the Whitsun Plays of Tudor
Chester 14
DAVID MILLS
SECTION II: DOCUMENTS IN ACTION: PERFORMANCE
PREPARATION
3 'It's as if I'm really doing research!' 27
MARY A. BLACKSTONE
4 Teaching without Texts: Early English Drama for Performance
Studies Students 48
MARGARET ROGERSON and BETSY TAYLOR
5 Using REED Chester for Classroom and Performance 70
STEPHEN F. PAGE
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SECTION III: CRITICAL ILLUMINATION: ENGLISH
LITERATURE
6 Using Historical Documents in the Literature Classroom:
Elizabethan and Jacobean Church Court Cases 87
ANNE BRANNEN
7 Teaching Poems from Robert Herrick's Hesperides
with the Aid of REED Documents 97
GLORIA J. BETCHER
SECTION IV: DRAMATIC ACTIVITY: SOCIAL HISTORY
8 The Use of REED Documents in Teaching Early Modern
English History 117
ROSALIND CONKLIN HAYS
9 'The husbandry and manage of my house': Teaching Women's
Studies from the Records of Early English Drama Collections 142
BARBARA D. PALMER
10 Palaeography in the Undergraduate Drama Class: Teaching
the Secret Life of Documents 154
JAMES STOKES
SECTION V: ENTERTAINING RECORDS: LANGUAGE
HISTORY
11 REED and Language Teaching 169
ABIGAIL ANN YOUNG
12 Going to HEL: REED and Diachronic Linguistics 176
ELZA C. TINER
SECTION VI: REFERENCES
13 Introducing Undergraduates to Documents in REED
Collections 197
ROSALIND CONKLIN HAYS
Contents vii
REED Collections 211
Works Cited 213
List of Contributors 223
Index 227
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Acknowledgments
Research for and publication of this volume were made possible by generous
funding from Lynchburg College, including a Summer Research grant in 2000,
the Faculty Scholar Leave award in 2003, and a Faculty Development grant in
2005. Special thanks go to the following at Lynchburg College for their support:
Vernon Miles, Dean; Nancy Whitman, Associate Dean; Kim McCabe, Dean, and
Daniel Lang, former Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences;
Thomas Allen, Chair of English; and Maria Nathan, Clifton W. Potter, Jr, and the
Faculty Development Committee. As well, I owe thanks to Jacqueline Asbury, for-
mer Dean of the College, and to Peggy Pittas, former Assistant Dean for Faculty
Development, for their ongoing encouragement during the early stages of this pro-
ject; to James Koger, Professor of English, and Delores Wolfe, former Associate
Dean, for their suggestions of resources in education and teacher preparation; and
to Ariel Myers, Public Services Librarian, and all of the staff at the Lynchburg
College Knight Capron Library for their assistance with numerous interlibrary
loan requests.
Thanks also go to Sally-Beth MacLean, Executive Editor, Records of Early
English Drama (REED), for permission to consult materials at the REED
archives, Victoria University, University of Toronto; to Caroline Suma, for access
and guidance at the library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
Toronto; to Jenny Mendelson, Head of Reference, Robarts Library, University of
Toronto; to the Alderman Library, University of Virginia, and to the University
of Arizona Main Library, for use of their resources; and to the libraries of the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, and the Curry School of Edu-
cation, University of Virginia, for use of their education collections. Special thanks
go to Alan Somerset, SEED series editor, to Sally-Beth MacLean; and to Miriam
Skey, Barbara Porter, and Suzanne Rancourt, editors at the University of Toron-
to Press, and Gord Oxley, typesetter, for their guidance and combined effort in