Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. SECTION I: VITAL EVIDENCE: THEATRE HISTORY
7. 1. The Audience of Early Drama: REED and the Techniques of Historical Fiction 3
8. 2. Using REED in Teaching the Whitsun Plays of Tudor Chester 14
9. SECTION II: DOCUMENTS IN ACTION: PERFORMANCE PREPARATION
10. 3. 'It's as if I'm really doing research!' 27
11. 4. Teaching without Texts: Early English Drama for Performance Studies Students 48
12. 5. Using REED Chester for Classroom and Performance 70
13. SECTION III: CRITICAL ILLUMINATION: ENGLISH LITERATURE
14. 6. Using Historical Documents in the Literature Classroom: Elizabethan and Jacobean Church Court Cases 87
15. 7. Teaching Poems from Robert Herrick's Hesperides with the Aid of REED Documents 97
16. SECTION IV: DRAMATIC ACTIVITY: SOCIAL HISTORY
17. 8. The Use of REED Documents in Teaching Early Modern English History 117
18. 9. 'The husbandry and manage of my house': Teaching Women's Studies from the Records of Early English Drama Collections 142
19. 10. Palaeography in the Undergraduate Drama Class: Teaching the Secret Life of Documents 154
20. SECTION V: ENTERTAINING RECORDS: LANGUAGE HISTORY
21. 11. REED and Language Teaching 169
22. 12. Going to HEL: REED and Diachronic Linguistics 176
23. SECTION VI: REFERENCES
24. 13. Introducing Undergraduates to Documents in REED Collections 197
25. REED Collections 211
26. Works Cited 213
27. List of Contributors 223
28. Index 227