Sunday Feature: Myths and Mystery Cycles

John Sessions follows the story of a research project that is rewriting the history and context of early English drama. The Records of Early English Drama, established by academic Alexandra Johnston, is seeking to establish the broad context from which Shakespeare and his contemporaries' drama grew, through detailed examination of church and court records. John follows REED scholars into the archives, talks to them about the scale and discipline of their work, and asks scholars and performers like Peter Holland and Mark Rylance what all this new evidence does to their understanding and performance of early English theatre