A capacious and contested category of time-based and usually embodied human expression through actions or processes that may occur in institutionalized locations, more informal cultural contexts, and broader social situations, as in the performance of social identities. Most often applied to literary, artistic, musical, theatrical, or other creative work, or the representation or record of such work. Within the Records of Early English Drama project, "Performance has been broadly defined to encompass nearly every mimetic, musical, or ritualistic form of play used to entertain or otherwise engage an audience." <a href="https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/about/s(eries/#selection">REED Online, 2018)</a>