Description
Please note: due to the book‐burning zeal of the English Reformation, no English text of a ‘miracle play’ survives and so an example of this drama cannot appear in this edition.
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to mystery and morality plays
* Concise introductions to the major cycles and plays
* All of the plays of the four principal mystery play cycles (York, Wakefield, N-Town and Chester)
* The plays appear in the form of their original Middle English texts
* Many rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* All extant English morality plays from the Middle Ages
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special Middle English glossary of words to aid your reading of the plays
* Special contextual section, with four essays charting the development of drama in the Middle Ages
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Mystery Plays
York Mystery Plays (c. mid-14th century)
Wakefield Mystery Plays (mid-15th century)
N-Town Plays (late 15th century)
Chester Mystery Plays (15th century)
The Morality Plays
The Pride of Life (late 14th century)
The Castle of Perseverance (c. 1425)
Wisdom (c. 1460)
Mankind (c. 1470)
Nature (c. 1495) by Henry Medwall
Everyman (1510)
Contextual Works
Miracle Plays and Mysteries (1913) by Georges Michel Bertrin
English Miracle Plays (1914) by Arnold Wynne
Moralities and Interludes (1914) by Arnold Wynne
Rise of the Drama (1921) by Andrew Lang
Glossary of Middle English Words
