Description:
These records are an invaluable addition to the scholarship of early drama, establishing as they do part of the total context of the great drama of Shakespeare, his predecessors, and his contemporaries.
Brief description: J. Alan B. Somerset is with the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.
Review Quotes:
'The importance of the REED project establishes itself ever more firmly with the publication of each new volume, not least because the potential to yield important material and new perspectives on the drama and related activities is repeatedly demonstrated for geographical areas outside the first ranks of prominence for early theatrical culture. In the case of Shropshire, the appeal of the compilation is enlivened by the intrinsic qualities of the evidence, several pieces of which make extremely engaging reading.'
--Darryl Grantley, Comparative Drama'With complete justification it has become something of a reviewing commonplace to congratulate each new volume of the Records of Early English Drama for its thoroughness of research, accuracy of transcription, and editorial judgment as well as to praise the vision of the project and the financial commitment of the various funding bodies. The eleventh volume in the series, devoted to the county of Shropshire, not only continues that tradition (now almost twenty years old) but improves upon it.'
--John Marshall, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies