Manuscript4/5/2023 Noting Baiazet, the Raging Turk - MARY POLITO AND KIRSTEN INGLIS Un-dating the Chester Plays: A Reassessment of Lawrence Clopper’s ‘History and Development’ and MS Peniarth 399 - MATTHEW SERGI The Towneley Plays: Huntington Library MS HM 1 - ALEXANDRA F. The Brome Abraham and Isaac and Impersonal Compilation - JOE STADOLNIK Introduction - TAMARA ATKIN AND LAURA ESTILL (la production, la représentation, et la réception des textes du théâtre anglais du Moyen Âge et de l’époque pré-moderne sous leur forme manuscrite). » (Martine Yvernault, dans Le Moyen Âge, 127/3-4, 2021, p. Estill proposent un ouvrage collectif riche comportant, outre leur introduction substantielle, vingt études réparties en trois chap. A ‘Works Cited’ appended to each contribution facilitates further reading in what is a fascinating and continually developing field of scholarship.” (Cheryl Taylor, in Parergon, 38/2, 2021, p. Readers are empowered to check descriptions and to enjoy the manuscripts for themselves. The generous illustrations, including timelines, computer-generated charts, photographs of manuscript pages and bindings, an ‘Index of Manuscripts’ and a ‘General Index’, testify to the editors’ care. “In the tradition of the manuscripts the authors so perceptively discuss, Early British Drama is itself a ‘fine book’ which fully justifies its purchase price. Early British Drama in Manuscript commendably performs all of these tasks.” (Jonathan Walker, in Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 6/1, 2021, p. “In a collection of twenty-one essays devoted to early British dramatic manuscripts, one would expect to find discussions that address familiar debates about early plays, introduce newly examined manuscripts related to the drama and theater, offer both theoretical and material considerations of these documents, and detail advances in the technological study of manuscript plays. Indeed, the volume is a valuable addition to the study of early British drama.” (Catherine Clifford, in Journal of British Studies, 60, 2021, p. “The essays collected here are thoughtfully arranged to effectively demonstrate this aim. Edwards' "British Manuscripts" series at Brepols, it is a sign of more good things to come.” (Alexandra Reider, in The Medieval Review, ) “Editors Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill have assembled a rich and varied set of material at the intersection of dramatic studies and manuscript studies, and, thanks to this underlying methodological innovation, the volume coheres intellectually to an impressive degree. “Early British Drama in Manuscripts delivers outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship on early British dramatic texts from 23 contributors, including editors Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill.” (Danielle Magnusson, in The Review of English Studies, 1-3, 2020) “Credit is due to Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill for wrangling these twenty fine-grained essays into an excellent collection on British dramatic manuscripts between 14.” (Micha Lazarus, in The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Volume 21/4, 2020, p. Early British Drama in Manuscript is a weighty volume, literally and intellectually.” (Brett Greatley-Hirsch, in Early Theatre, 23.1, 2020, p. Edwards, Early British Drama in Manuscript exceeds expectations and sets a high standard for future volumes (…) Brepols has produced a book of impressive quality, befitting the scholarship it contains. “ As the eagerly anticipated flagship volume of ‘British Manuscripts’, a new series published by Brepols under the editorship of A.S.G.
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