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MEDIEVAL ENGLISH DRAMA

BIBLIOGRAPHIES:

Berger, Sidney E. Medieval English Drama: An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Criticism. New York: Garland, 1990. (Robbins PR641.B47 1990)

Houle, Peter J. The English Morality and Related Drama: A Bibliographical Survey. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1972. (Robbins and Reference PR643.M7 H6)

Stratman, Carl J. Bibliography of Medieval Drama. 2 vols. 2d ed., rvsd. & enlarged. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1972. (Includes sections on English drama as well as on liturgical Latin drama and the drama of France, Germany, etc.) (Robbins and Reference ZPN1751.S89b 1972 v.1 & v.2)

White, D. Jerry. Early English Drama, Everyman to 1580: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986. (Robbins and Reference Z2014.D7 W48 1986)


RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS:

Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain: A Chronological Topography to 1558. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. (Robbins and Stacks PN2585.L263 1984)

Records of Early English Drama for:

Lumiansky, R. M. and David Mills. The Chester Mystery Cycle: Essays and Documents. With an Essay, "Music in the Cycle," by Richard Rastall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.C4 L85 1983)

Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge: A Middle English Treatise on the Playing of Miracles. Ed. Clifford Davidson. Washington, D. C.: University Press of America, 1981. (Robbins and Stacks PR641.T7 1981)

Mill, Anna Jean. Mediaeval Plays in Scotland. 1924; rpt. New York: Benjamin Bloom, 1969. (Contains a long section of documents relating to medieval drama in Scotland.) (Robbins and Stacks PR8585.M64m 1969)


GENERAL SOURCES:

Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama. Ed. Richard K. Emmerson. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1990. (Robbins and Stacks PR641.A8 1990)

A Companion to the Medieval Theatre. Ed. Ronald W. Vince. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989. (Robbins PN2152.C66 1989)

Medieval English Drama: A Casebook. Ed. Peter Happé. London: Macmillan, 1984. (Robbins and Stacks PR641.M43 1984)

The Revels History of Drama in English. Volume I: Medieval Drama. By A. C. Cawley, Marion Jones, Peter F. McDonald & David Mills. London: Methuen, 1983. (Robbins and Stacks PR625.R44 v.1)


LITURGICAL BACKGROUND:

Hardison, O. B. Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages: Essays in the Origin and Early History of Modern Drama. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. (Robbins and Stacks PN1751.H26c)

Young, Karl. The Drama of the Medieval Church 2 vols. 1933; rpt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. (Robbins PN1751.Y6 1967 v.1 & v.2)


MEDIEVAL DRAMA AND ART AND MUSIC:

Collins, Patrick J. The N-Town Plays and Medieval Picture Cycles. Forward by Clifford Davidson. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1979. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.C8 C6)

Davidson, Clifford. Drama and Art: An Introduction to the Use of Evidence from the Visual Arts for the Study of Early Drama. Kalamazoo, Michigan: The Medieval Institute, 1977. (Robbins and Stacks PR643.M8 D34)

Davidson, Clifford. Visualizing the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the Macro Moralities. New York: AMS Press, 1989. (Robbins and Stacks PR643.M7 D43 1989)

Happe, Peter. Song in Morality Plays & Interludes. Medieval Theatre Monographs 1. Lancaster: Medieval English Theatre, 1991. (Robbins PR643 .M7 H36 1991)

Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama. Papers by David Bevington, Huston Diehl, Richard Kenneth Emmerson, Ronald Herzman, and Pamela Sheingorn. Early Drama, Art and Music Monograph Series, 6. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1985. (Robbins PR643.J83 H66 1985)


STAGING:

Burns, Edward. The Chester Mystery Cycle: A New Staging Text. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1987. (Robbins PR1261.C54 B87 1987)

Southern, Richard. Medieval Theatre in the Round: A Study of the Staging of The Castle of Perseverance and Related Matters. 1958; 2d ed. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1975. (Robbins PN 2587.S6 1975b)

The Staging of Religious Drama in Europe in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Documents in English Translation. Trans. Raffaella Ferrari, Peter Meredith, Lynette R. Muir, Margaret Sleeman, and John E. Tailby. Ed. Peter Meredith and John E. Tailby. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1983. (Robbins and Stacks PN2152.S73)

Staging the Chester Cycle: Lectures Given on the Occasion of the Production of the Cycle at Leeds in 1983. Ed. David Mills. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1985. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.C4 S73 1985)

Tydeman, William. English Medieval Theatre 1400-1500. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. (Stacks PN2587.T93 1986)

SOME IMPORTANT CRITICAL STUDIES:


Aspects of Early English Drama. Ed. Paula Neuss. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer and Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1983. (Robbins and Stacks PR 641.A86 1983)

Chambers, E. K. The Mediaeval Stage. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1903 [i.e., 1948]. (Robbins PN2152.C4 1903a v.1 & v.2 and stacks [London: Clarendon, 1903] PN2152.C44m)

Contexts for Early English Drama Ed. Marianne G. Briscoe and John C. Coldewey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. (Robbins and Stacks PR641.C68 1989)

Davenport, W. A. Fifteenth-Century English Drama: The Early Moral Plays and Their Literary Relations. 1982; rpt. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1984. (Robbins and Stacks PR643.M7 D3 1982)

Davidson, Clifford. Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580. Kalamzaoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991. (Robbins PN2587.D38 1991)

Diller, Hans-Jürgen, The Middle English Mystery Play: A Study in Dramatic Speech and Form. Trans. Frances Wessels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. (Robbins PR643.M8 D55 1992)

Drama in the Middle Ages: Comparative and Critical Essays. Ed. Clifford Davidson, C. J. Gianakaris, and John H. Stroupe. New York: AMS Press, 1982. (Robbins and Stacks PN1751.D73 1982)

Drama in the Middle Ages: Comparative and Critical Essays. Second Series. Ed. Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe. New York: AMS Press, 1991. (Robbins and Stacks PN1751.D73 1991)

Gardiner, Harold C. Mysteries' End: An Investigation of the Last Days of the Medieval Religious Stage. 1946; [Hamden, Connecticut]: Archon Books, 1967. (Robbins PR 641.G3 1967)

Gibson, Gail McMurray. The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.E28 G53 1989)

Harris, John Wesley. Medieval Theatre in Context: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1992. (Robbins PN1751.H38 1992)

Helterman, Jeffrey. Symbolic Action in the Plays of the Wakefield Master. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1981. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.W3 H4)

Kinpling, Gordon. Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph. Oxford: Clarendon Press,1998.

Kolve, V. A. A Play Called Corpus Christi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966. (Robbins and Stacks PR643.1.K81p)

Medieval Drama. Ed. Neville Denny. London: Edward Arnold, 1973. (Robbins PN1751.M433)

Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual. Ed. Jerome Taylor and Alan H. Nelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. (Robbins and Stacks PR641.T3)

Nelson, Alan H. The Medieval English Stage: Corpus Christi Pageants and Plays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. (Robbins and Stacks PR 643.C7 N4)

Potter, Robert. The English Morality Play: Origins, History and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. (Robbins and Stacks PR643.M7 P96 1975)

Stevens, Martin. Four Middle English Mystery Cycles: Textual, Contextual, and Critical Interpretations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. (Robbins PR643.M8 S7 1987)

Stevens, Martin, and Milla Riggio, Guest Co-Editors. Mediaevalia 18 (1995[for 1992]). [A special issue containing "essays that reflect some of the most recent theoretical interests" applied primarily to medieval English drama.]

Travis, Peter W. Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.C4 T7 1982)

Wickham, Glynne. The Medieval Theatre. 3d ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. (1st ed. was published in 1974.) (Robbins and Stacks PN2152.W5 1987)

Williams, Arnold. The Characterization of Pilate in the Towneley Plays. East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1950. (Stacks PR644.T7 W72c)

The Wisdom Symposium: Papers from the Trinity College Medieval Festival. Ed. Milla Cozart Riggia. New York: AMS Press, 1986. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.W58 W57 1986)

Woolf, Rosemary. The English Mystery Plays. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. (Robbins and Stacks PR643.M8 W6)


MYSTERY PLAYS


CHESTER CYCLE

Edition:
The Chester Mystery Cycle. Ed. R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills. Oxford: Published for the Early English Text Society published by the Oxford University Press, 1974. S.S. 3. (Robbins PR 1119.E2)

Facsimiles:
The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Facsimile of MS Bodley 175. Ed. R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1973. (Robbins and Stacks PR1260.C36 1973)

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Reduced Facsimile of Huntington Library MS 2. Ed. R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1980. (Robbins and Stacks PR1261.C54)

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Facsimile of British Library MS Harley 2124. Ed. David Mills. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1984. (Robbins and Stacks [folio] PR1261.C54 1984)

Concordance:
Complete Concordance to the Chester Mystery Plays. Ed. Jean D. Pfleiderer and Michael J. Preston. New York: Garland, 1981. (Stacks PR644.C4 p47 1981)


THE N-TOWN PLAYS (also called the HEGGE PLAYS, after former owner Robert Hegge, and the LUDUS COVENTRIAE, though not from Coventry)

Edition:
The N-Town Play: Cotton MS Vespasian D. 8. 2 Vols. Ed. Stephen Spector. Oxford: Published for the Early English Text Society published by the Oxford University Press, 1991. S.S. 11 and 12. (Robbins PR1119.E2)

Facsimile:
The N-Town Plays: A Facsimile of British Library MS Cotton Vespasian D VIII. Ed. Peter Meredith and Stanley J. Kahrl. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1977). (Robbins and Stacks PR1260.C64 1977)


THE TOWNELEY CYCLE (so called after former owner Christopher Towneley, and also called THE WAKEFIELD CYCLE)

Edition:
The Towneley Plays. 2 Vols. Ed. Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley. Oxford: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1994. S.S. 13 and 14. (Robbins PR1119.E2)

Facsimile:
The Towneley Cycle: A Facsimile of Huntington MS HM 1. Ed. A. C. Cawley and Martin Stevens. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1976. (Robbins and Stacks PR1260.T74c 1976)

Concordances:
A Concordance to the Towneley Plays. Ed. Gerald Byron Kinneavy. New York: Garland, 1990. (Robbins PR644.T6 K5 1990)

A KWIC Concordance to the Plays of the Wakefield Master. Ed. Michael J. Preston and Jean D. Pfleiderer. New York: Garland, 1982. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.W3 P7 1982)


THE YORK CYCLE

Edition:
York Plays; the plays performed by the crafts or mysteries of York, on the day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963. (Robbins PR1260.Y63s1 1963)

Facsimile:
The York Play: A Facsimile of British Library MS Additional 35290 Together with a Facsimile of the Ordo Paginarum Section of the A/Y Memorandum Book. Ed. Richard Beadle and Peter Meredith with a note on the music by Richard Rastall. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1983. (Robbins and Stacks PR 1260.Y67 1983)

Concordance:
A Concordance to the York Plays. Compiled by Gerald Byron Kinneavy. Textual Intro. by Richard Beadle. New York: Garland, 1986. (Robbins and Stacks PR644.Y6 K56 1986)

DIGBY PLAYS

Edition:
The late medieval religious plays of Bodleian Mss Digby 133 and E. Museo 160. Ed. Donald C. Baker and John L. Murphy and Louis B. Hall. Oxford: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1982. O.S. 283. (Robbins and Stacks PR1260.D57ba2)

Facsimile:
The Digby Plays: Facsimiles of the Plays in Bodley MSS Digby 133 and e Museo 160. Ed. Donald C. Baker and J. L. Murphy. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1976. (Robbins and Stacks PR1260.D57ba)

 

MISCELLANEOUS CYCLE PLAYS AND NON-CYCLE PLAYS

Non-Cycle Plays and The Winchester Dialogues: Facsimiles of Plays and Fragments in Various Manuscripts and the Dialogues in Winchester College MS 33. Ed. Norman Davis. Leeds: The University of Leeds School of English, 1979. (Robbins and Stacks PR1260.N66)


MORALITY PLAYS


Facsimile:
The Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind. A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcriptions. Ed. David Bevington. New York: Johnson Reprint Co., 1972. (Stacks PR1260.B4)