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This has been the only full year of our two year research project, and we have been busy.

This post is part of a series on theatrical words. For an introduction to the series, see Performing words: introduction to a new thread on theatre and language.

This post is part of a series on theatrical words. For an introduction to the series, see Performing words: introduction to a new thread on theatre and language.

By way of a sequel to Callan’s recent post about J.O. Halliwell-Phillips and the place of the fragment, excerpt and ‘scrap’ in theatre history, I want to introduce here another model for doing theatre history and to think about what happens if we don’t excerpt but attempt to present complete sets of documents.