Welcome to the Patrons and Performances website!

Professional performers of all kinds in England and Wales toured to provincial towns, monasteries and private residences before 1642. The Records of Early English Drama (REED) project is discovering fresh evidence about medieval and renaissance entertainment for publication in editions for all English, Scottish and Welsh counties.

The REED Patrons and Performances website is designed to include a wide range of data about professional performers on tour in the provinces – their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom.

Most of the data relating to the print REED volumes is now uploaded. Please see ‘Present Data Coverage’ for more details.

Users can tag records of interest and print or email them. After tagging individual records, click the ‘Tagged Record’ link at the top of the website’s homepage to see a list of all the records you have tagged.

Related touring data for patrons, events and troupes for all digital editions published from 2017 onwards will link directly from REED Online (https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca) to this site.

Please note that recommended citation of data from this website is REED: Patrons and Performances (REED: P & P).