Editing, Performance, Texts: New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

Introduction: 'New Practices', Jacqueline Jenkins and Julie Sanders PART I: ENABLING MANUSCRIPTS TO SPEAK 1. What the Beauchamp Pageant Says About Medieval Plays, Claire Sponsler 2. Reading Images, Drawing Texts: The Illustrated Abbey of the Holy Ghost in British Library MS Stowe 39', Boyda Johnstone 3. The Towneley Manuscript and Performance: Tudor Recycling?, Murray McGillivray 4. Performing the Percy Folio, Andrew Taylor PART II: PERFORMANCE TRACES IN THE ARCHIVE 5. London Commercial Theatre 1500-1576, Mary Erler 6. The Revision of Manuscript Drama, James Purkis 7. Playing Ghismonda for 'fooles' and 'noble friends': Revising for Performance Between Glausamond and Ghismonda, Kirsten Inglis 8. Cressida's Letter: Readings and Performances in the Shakespearean Archive, J. Gavin Paul PART III: EDITING THROUGH PERFORMANCE 9. (Un)editing with (Non)fictional Bodies: Pope's Daggers, Lynette Hunter and Peter Lichtenfels 10. Influencing Editors, Influencing Performers: The Page to Stage Relationship, Christie Carson 11. Actors and Editors: A Feature of the Edition Richard Brome Online, Richard Cave, Eleanor Lowe and Brian Woolland