Medieval English Theatre

Screen capture from the film by Maria Cecire of the 2013 EDOX staging of William Gager s Latin Dido (1583) in the Great Hall
of Christ Church Oxford. For the whole film, and more about the project, go to the EDOX website.

Medieval English Theatre is a society which exists to promote interest in and study of early theatre both within and beyond the academic community. Since 1979 it has published an international refereed journal, Medieval English Theatre, now one of the leading publications on medieval and Tudor theatre up to the rise of the commercial playhouses and the suppression of the civic religious drama. The journal is now distributed by the publisher Boydell and Brewer.
METh also organises an annual conference meeting each year at a different location, usually in Britain, and on a different theme.

FREE BACK NUMBERS: UNREPEATABLE OFFER

We are in the process of rationalising our stocks of back numbers of Medieval English Theatre. Copies of most volumes are available in various quantities between Vol. 8 (1986) and Vol. 36 (2014), after which Boydell and Brewer took over publication. You can check out the contents here.
If you would like any copies completely FREE, please ask Dr Clare Egan at c.egan2@lancaster.ac.uk before 10th July 2025. We have to ask you to pay for the postage, which will be calculated when you send in your order. After that date any left-over copies will be recycled.
For further information, see this printable pdf.
Download a list of what is available.

The 2025 Medieval English Theatre Meeting took place at the
University of Bristol on Saturday 29 March,
hosted by Eleanor Rycroft and Cathy Hume.

The topic was Medieval Theatre in Action.

The 2026 meeting will be at the University of Durham, hosted by Mark Chambers.
The topic will be Records