The Records of Early English Drama (REED) series establishes the
context of early English drama by examining the historical
manuscripts that provide evidence of drama, communal entertainment,
secular music and ceremony from the Middle Ages to 1642, when the
Puritans closed the public theatres of London. This volume combines
the records of the counties of Dorset and Cornwall, both located in
the southwest of England.
Dorset/Cornwall provides a comprehensive collection of the
records of public performance--music, song, dance, theatre, folk
ritual, and civic customs--in those counties up to 1642. Drawing on
a wide range of extant documents from private account diaries to
Star Chamber cases, the volume situates performance activity within
the complex economic and political forces shaping the social
history of early modern England. Organizing the records by specific
locations, this volume completes the REED survey of entertainment
in the southwest of England. The records, in Middle and Early
Modern English, Latin, and Cornish are presented with a substantial
introduction for each county that includes a historical essay, as
well as descriptions of the documents, a select bibliography,
translations, extensive notes, and other editorial apparatus
designed to make the historical records accessible to all
readers.
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