The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1075  Monday, 28 June 1999.

From:           Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Monday, June 28, 1999
Subject:        Two Forwards from REED-L

I thought the following two posting from the REED-L, Records of Early
English Drama, might interest some SHAKSPEReans.

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From:           Abigail Ann Young <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Friday, 25 Jun 1999 10:54:02 -0400
Subject:        New Edition of King Edward The First

Perhaps this new edition is interesting to you:

Publication date June 31, 1999

George Peele. 1999. KING EDWARD THE FIRST WITH THE LIFE OF LLUELLEN
REBEL IN
WALES (1593), with insert (SAMPLES) DAVID AND BETHSABE (1594). edited by
George Kelsey Dreher. Midland, Texas: Iron Horse Free Press. 224pp. ISBN
0-9601000-7-5. HC $19.50

6" x 9", color cover, 20 illustrations, Foreword, Introduction,
Comments, Bibliography. Publication date, June 31, 1999.

13th century history viewed from 16th century drama.

Author, George Peele was in the group of London playwrights, precursory
to Shakespeare, known as the "university wits" which also included
Marlowe, Nashe, Lyly, and Greene. In 1587 Thomas Greene could call him,
"The chief supporter of pleasance now living, the Atlas of poetry, and
primum verborum artifex (most excellent artist of words)," and one who
"goeth a step beyond all that write."

Editor, George Kelsey Dreher provides a retroform of Peele's KING EDWARD
I, solving several riddles in the text that he discusses in the 43 page
introduction covering Chronicle History Plays, Sources, Structure,
Theme, Characterization, and Diction. With insert DAVID AND BETHSABE
(SAMPLES) Dreher juxtaposes Peele's verse with parallel Bible passages
in the 1525 translation by Miles Coverdale, demonstrating that Peele
worked directly from the Latin and used as sources the Psalms as well as
Samuel II. Dreher offers a 35 page discussion of Peele's viewpoint,
emotional involvement, and style.

This hardcover edition features 10 illustrations from the British
Museum, 5 from the Museum of Modern Art (NY), 4 from SCALA (IT), 2 from
the Fine Arts Museum (SF), and 1 from Musee du Louvre (Paris).

For more info. visit
http://www.georgedreher.com/King_Edward_The_First.html

George R. Dreher
Iron Horse Free Press
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From:           Abigail Ann Young <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Friday, 25 Jun 1999 10:54:19 -0400
Subject:        York Plays in Toronto '98 website

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From:           Steve Wright This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Date:           Wednesday, 16 Jun 1999 16:42:40 -0400
Subject:        York Plays in Toronto '98 website

Thanks to generous contributions from friends and colleagues, the York
Plays in Toronto website
http://www.acad.cua.edu/as/engl/toronto/york98.htm now has an even 100
pictures and maps documenting the events of June 20, 1998.  There is at
least one picture for every pageant with the exception of Plays 40, 44,
45, and 46, all of which were performed so late in the day that the
light was failing.  I will continue to expand the site as new material
becomes available.

Special thanks to the following contributors:  Gloria Betcher, Michelle
Butler, Kathleen Campbell, Mary Dzon, Chad Engbers, Kristina Rutledge,
Michael Winkelman, and Will Wright.
Steve Wright
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