Anne Lancashire
Anne Lancashire is the author of London Civic Theatre: Civic Drama
and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558 (2002), and editor of the 3-volume London Civic Theatre (2015), a Records of Early English Drama publication
of transcribed and edited manuscript records of city-sponsored theatrical and musical
activities in London from the 13th century to 1558, with a 187- page analytical introduction
and 9 appendices. She has written the entry on London street theatre in OUP’s Handbook of Early Modern Theatre, and the entry on civic pageantry in the
Wiley- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, and
has published numerous articles on pageantry and on drama in London in both the medieval
and
early modern periods. Now Professor Emerita of English, Drama, and Cinema Studies
at the
University of Toronto, she is currently expanding, up to 2018, her open-access researched
and referenced database of mayors and sheriffs of London (http://masl.library.utoronto.ca), which
originally ran from 1190 to 1558 and at present (2018) has an endpoint of 1860. Other
publications include editions of three early modern plays, and articles on the Star Wars films. Anne Lancashire is currently a member of the following
academic research groups:
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Advisory Board of the Internet Shakespeare Editions
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Editorial Board of Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England
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Editorial Board of Early Theatre
