Early Performers and Performance in the Northeast of England

Diana Wyatt is Associate Researcher, Records of Early English Drama North-East; Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University; and editor of Records of Early English Drama: East Riding of YorkshireMcKinnell John :

John McKinnell is Emeritus Professor of English Studies at Durham University, Principal Investigator of the project "Records of Early English Drama North-East" and co-editor of Records of Early English Drama: County Durham

Although the volume’s essays vary in length and ambition, their research quality and insightfulness are consistently high. Some of the most salient themes to emerge include the importance of great households as sites for performance; the cultural centrality and contested meanings of unscripted customs; and the connections among performance, religious beliefs, and controversy.[...] Medievalists should seek out this collection for its introduction to a trove of new primary sources and for its range of perspectives on important performance practices—urban, rural, scripted, and unscripted—spanning the medieval and early modern periods.