ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a new kind of repertory study in the context of Early Modern England – one which records the plays and entertainments offered to a particular regional community in a particular period of 30 years or so. Since the publication of the Records of Early English Drama (REED) volumes, it has become possible to trace the movement of individual playing companies. 1 Such a record is included here for those companies that visited Stratford-upon-Avon in the late sixteenth century (seeAppendix 2 to J. R. Mulryne’s chapter in this book). Recently scholars have also begun to study plays not in the context of a particular author’s work, but in the context of the group of plays owned and performed by a particular company. 2 This chapter brings together what can be inferred about the plays in the repertoires of companies at the time of their visit(s) to Stratford (Appendix 1, below) and considers the changing tastes and fashions indicated by the range of plays performed. 3
