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- 1 2 3 John Marshall, 'Introduction', in Peter Meredith, The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies , ed. by John Marshall (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), xiii-xvii.
- 1 2 Ralph W. V. Elliott, 'Peter Meredith in Australia', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998), 5-6.
- ↑ Roger Ellis, 'Other Times and Our Own Places in Children's Literature', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998), 69-80 (p. 69).
- 1 2 George W. Turner, 'Portrait of a Friend: Peter Meredith', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998), 7-8.
- ↑ Charles Barber, 'Peter Meredith: A Personal Tribute', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998), 3.
- ↑ Essays in Honour of Peter Meredith , ed. by Catherine Batt = Leeds Studies in English, n. s. 29 (1998).
- ↑ James Cummings, 'Peter Meredith: Publications', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998), 427-33.
- ↑ Peter Meredith, The Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies , ed. by John Marshall (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).