Digging into archives of theatre history has been one of the hallmarks of Dr. Ted McGee’s research, both his work on Renaissance English drama and that on Shakespeare in Performance at the Stratford Festival. He is currently one of the international team of scholars preparing the New Variorum Shakespeare Othello, an edition that notes all the textual variants since the play first appeared in 1622 and provides a digest of all the published criticism of it. This editorial project was a natural outgrowth of earlier textual studies of early modern English pageants, masques, and entertainments. Having co-edited the Records of Early English Drama: Dorset with Dr. Rosalind Hays of Dominican University , he is now working with her on the REED: Wiltshire, a compilation of all the records of performances in that county up to the closing of the theatres in 1642. |
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| One serendipitous spin-off of this research in various archives and libraries in England has been the discovery of an important body of unpublished popular poetry; hence his current work on a little book with the working title, God, Sex and Money: Libelous Poems of Early Modern Dorset. “Smitten,” a study of love at first sight on the Stratford Festival stages, should come out this year and his article on Juliet’s dresses next. | |
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