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Books on Middle English Plays
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Play Texts
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Medieval Drama
by Greg Walker (Editor)
Blackwell Publishers, August 2000
"This comprehensive anthology brings together a
diverse collection of dramatic writing from the late
14th Century to the onset of the Renaissance. The
volume presents for the first time the key plays of
the period in their entirety, alongside more unusual
selections, covering religious narrative, religion and
conscience, and politics and morality."—The Publisher.
Extended Review and List of Plays
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Medieval Drama
by David Bevington
Hardcover
Houghton Mifflin College, June 1975
"The most comprehensive generally available
anthology."
—The Reader's Catalog.
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Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays
(The Everymans Library)
by A.C. Cawley (Editor)
Everymans Library, August 1,1993
"In addition to the morality play, Everyman, this
volume contains a selection of fifteenth century
biblical pageants: the very best from the cycles
of York, Chester, Wakefield, Coventry and
"N. town." A translation of the Cornish Death of
Pilate rounds out this fascinating collection for
admirers of theatre and of medieval literature."
—Amazon.com
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Medieval and Tudor Drama
by John Gassner (Editor)
Paperback
Applause Theatre Book Pub, November 1988
"A selection of English mystery and miracle plays
including Everyman, Tudor interludes and comedies,
and some interesting source materials."
—The Reader's Catalog
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Critical Works
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A New History of Early English Drama
by John D. Cox (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Editor)
Columbia Univ Press, June 1997
"Splendidly redefines the whole field of early modern
drama. Its individual essays are both definitive accounts
of the state of knowledge today and striking provocations
to further thought-and in combination they provide the
most inclusive, innovative, and important overview of
the drama that we have had to date. "
—Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval
English Theatre
(Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Richard Beadle (Editor)
Paperback
Cambridge Univ Press, April 1,1994
"Mystery plays and other drama of the English Middle Ages
are perennially popular with students and theater audiences
alike. This text introduces readers to famous mystery cycles
such as those of Chester and York, as well as great morality
plays such as Everyman." —The Publisher
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Chester
by Lawrence M. Clopper (Editor)
Hardcover
Univ of Toronto Pr, June 1979
From REED (Records of Early English Drama)
comes this collection of criticism and sources
for the Chester cycle.
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York
(Records of Early English Drama Series)
by Alexandra F. Johnston, Margaret Rogerson (Editor)
Hardcover
Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1979
From REED (Records of Early English Drama)
comes this collection of criticism and sources
for the York cycle.
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Medieval Drama
(English Dramatists)
by Christine Richardson (Contributor), Jackie Johnston
Hardcover
St Martins Pr, March 1991
"This book is divided into two main sections; the first
covers the plays of the Mystery Cycles and the second
looks at the Morality plays and interludes."
— The Publisher
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Miscellaneous
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The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture
(The New Middle Ages)
by Christina M. Fitzgerald
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
"A lively and provocative book on a neglected topic: the
relationship of late medieval biblical dramas from York
and Chester to the urban guild culture that produced them.
In a series of deft textual readings, she argues for guild
culture's centrality to the ideology, imagery, and idiom
of these plays." —Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland.
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Gender and Medieval Drama
(Gender in the Middle Ages)
by Katie Normington
D. S. Brewer, 2006
"The focus of this study is upon the Corpus Christi plays,
supplemented by other performance practices such as festive
and social entertainments, civic parades, funeral processions
and public punishments.... In conclusion, there is a series of
readings which reassess the dramatic portrayal of a selection
of holy and vulgar women — the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene,
Mrs Noah and Dame Procula. The emphasis throughout the book
is upon a performance-based analysis." —The Publisher.
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The Middle English Mystery Play:
A Study in Dramatic Speech and Form
by Hans-Jürgen Diller
Cambridge University Press, 2004
"Diller's major study, first published in German, seeks to
recover [the plays'] dramatic potential by focusing on the
function of language in conventional modes of speech, prayer,
address and dialogue. He looks at speech and dramatic form
in the plays to reveal new insights concerning spatial and
temporal orientation, the expression of emotions, and the
relationships between characters on stage, between actor
and audience, and between the dramatic world and the
ordinary world outside it." —The Publisher
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Drama and Resistance : Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England
(Medieval Cultures,
Vol 10)
by Claire Sponsler
Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1997
"Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily
subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in
late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration
of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she
argues that many types of performances during this
time represented cultural evasions of the imposition
of disciplinary power." —The Publisher.
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