The Beccles Game Place and Local Drama in Early North-East Suffolk

• Autores: James Stokes
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 39, 2017, págs. 77-102
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Early East Anglia, especially Suffolk, had a far greater number of dedicated outdoor recreational sites than any other region of the Kingdom, together with a copiously recorded tradition of parish drama. The Waveney River Valley in north-east Suffolk is particularly rich in both playing places and dramatic records. This paper studies the playing tradition and game place in Beccles, a port town on the Waveney River; places it in its larger context of drama and playing places in that part of the county; examines the meaning of game place in Suffolk; and suggests the need for more study of game places, parish dramatic records, and surviving play-texts in relation to each other as a proposed next step in the study of East Anglian drama.