{"id":74,"date":"2013-09-05T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:35:37","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Early Modern Drama in Parts <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Palfrey-and-Stern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-317 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Palfrey-and-Stern-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Palfrey-and-Stern-202x300.jpg 202w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Palfrey-and-Stern.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Producing a play in Shakespeare\u2019s day was very different from the methods we use now since actors were simply given their part or \u2018role\u2019 and began work. Reconstructed theatres across the globe &#8211; like the Globe in London &#8211; are dedicated to researching early modern staging but, so far, none has studied the practice of reading in parts. We have been exploring it together &#8211; from receiving our parts to piecing together the play scene by scene. We invite you to browse through the following pages to see and hear how\u00a0 our perceptions of our roles, the play and early modern dramatic practice have been shaped by the process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Creating-a-role--scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Creating-a-role--266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Creating-a-role--266x300.jpg 266w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Creating-a-role--908x1024.jpg 908w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Creating-a-role--768x866.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Creating-a-role--1362x1536.jpg 1362w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/files\/2026\/04\/Creating-a-role--1816x2048.jpg 1816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>In the first week, we hear about the <em>dramatis personae<\/em> , distribute our parts and construct\u00a0 our roles (sometimes a lengthy process!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Modern Drama in Parts Producing a play in Shakespeare\u2019s day was very different from the methods we use now since actors were simply given their part or \u2018role\u2019 and began work. Reconstructed theatres across the globe &#8211; like the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/early-modern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}