Early Modern Touring Bibliography

If you are interested in early modern touring practises these books are an excellent starting place.

  • Greenfield, Peter H., ‘Touring’, A New History of Early English Drama, ed. by David Scott Kastan and John D. Cox (Columbia: Columbia UP, 1997), pp. 251-268.
  • Gurr, Andrew, The Shakespearean Playing Companies, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. 36-54.
  • Ingram, William, The Business of Playing: The Beginnings of the Adult Professional Theatre in Elizabethan London, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992).
  • Keenan, Siobhan, Travelling Players in Shakespeare’s England, (Palgrave, 2002).
  • McMillin, Scott and Sally-Beth MacLean, The Queen’s Men and their Plays (Cambridge: CUP 1998).

For research purposes here is an extended touring Bibliography

An invaluable research tool for early modern touring are the Records of Early English Drama volumes and websites:
REED Website
REED Patrons and Performances Website

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