IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 1619: Entertainment in the Margins of Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Thursday 15 July 2004, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Records of Early English Drama |
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Organiser: | Anne Brannen, Department of English, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh |
Moderator/Chair: | Arthur David Mills, School of English, University of Liverpool |
Paper 1619-a | Professional Troupes in Lincolnshire: Their Identity, their Patrons, their Routes (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1619-b | Entertainment on the Rocks: The South-Western Fringe (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 1619-c | That's Entertainment: Professionals in the Cambridgeshire Fens (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Performance Arts - Drama |
Abstract | Professional entertainment was available to people who lived throughout Britain in the late Middle Ages and on into the early modern period, but the forms it took varied greatly. Places rendered inaccessible by geography or language were not likely to see the great travelling companies; nevertheless, travelling troupes operated in such areas. The papers in this session examine the professional entertainers working in the fenlands of the Wash, and the edges of Devon and Cornwall. |