Introduction: Rethinking Early Modern Performance.

This Early Theatre Issues in Review section explores concepts of 'performance' in late medieval and early modern England. Responding to current work on drama, festivity and spectatorship, and to the ongoing editorial project Records of Early English Drama (REED), essays address questions such as: what constitutes performance in pre-modern contexts? where, and in what types of texts, can evidence of medieval and early modern performance be located? and what can rethinking ideas of performance and sources do for critical understanding of medieval and early modern culture and drama. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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