{"product_id":"medieval-drama-9780631217275","title":"Medieval Drama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comprehensive anthology brings together a diverse collection of dramatic writing from the late fourteenth 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first section focuses on Biblical plays, including coherent sequences of the narrative Cycle plays from York and N-Town and supporting pageants from Chester and Wakefield. This approach allows a clear narrative line to develop, and permits the comparison of the treatment of key stories between the Cycles. The selected material demonstrates how the drama of the towns and cities of East Anglia and the North of England mediated religious culture to a heterodox urban audience, and explored biblical events in an intensely contemporary setting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the second and third sections, the attention turns to secular drama, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Walker offers a thoroughly researched and well-chosen selection of key primary texts and some unusual plays. He also provides short but comprehensive introductions that will be easily accessible to beginning students.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A marvellous collection of dramatic texts from the late fourteenth century to the beginnings of the Renaissance in the British Isles.\u003cbr\u003e In this remarkably comprehensive collection we have the entire texts of the key plays of the period, including some less usual works.\u003cbr\u003e A few period illustrations, maps and a street plan help set the scene. The whole exemplary apparatus is worn lightly, all helping to encourage reading and acting. Glossaries of terms and notes sit unobtrusively at the foot of the page, immediately available to help the reader.\u003cbr\u003e He [Walker] specifically arranges his anthology to allow, and encourage, the plays to speak for themselves: wide-ranging selection, concise informative introduction to each work, notes and glossaries.\u003cbr\u003e In a single volume a whole range of rich literature is made accessible to the modern reader in what must be just about the star volume in an anyway excellent series. This book will be essential in any undergraduate or senior school collection of English literature, or of drama, and will enhance may other collections besides\". \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronological Table xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlaces Mentioned in the Text xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe York Performance Sites xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Religious Narrative: The Biblical Plays 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork, The Ordo Paginarum 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Barkers\/Tanners), The Fall of the Angels 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChester (The Tanners), The Fall of Lucifer 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Coopers), The Fall of Man 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChester (The Drapers), Adam and Eve 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Pewterers and Founders), Joseph’s Trouble About Mary 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Tilethatchers), The Nativity 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowneley, The Second Shepherds’ Play 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChester (The Paynters and Glaziers), The Shepherds 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Skinners), The Entry into Jerusalem 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Cutlers), The Conspiracy 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Bowers and Fletchers), Christ Before Annas and Caiaphas 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Tapiters and Couchers), Christ Before Pilate I: The Dream of Pilate’s Wife 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Litsters), Christ Before Herod 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Tilemakers), Christ Before Pilate II: The Judgement 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Pinners), The Crucifixion 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Saddlers), The Harrowing of Hell 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Carpenters), The Resurrection 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYork (The Mercers), The Last Judgement 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mercers’ Indenture (1433) 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last Judgement 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eN-Town, The Mary Play 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge (extracts) 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChester, The Post-Reformation Banns 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Hutton’s Letter to the Mayor and Council of York (1567) 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Religion And Conscience: The Moral Plays 207\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCroxton, The Play of the Sacrament 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWisdom 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMankind 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEveryman 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Politics And Morality: The Interludes 299\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Medwall, Fulgens and Lucres 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Skelton, Magnyfycence 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester 409\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Heywood, The Four PP 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Heywood, The Play of the Weather 456\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Bale, Johan Baptystes Preachynge 480\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Bale, The Three Laws 493\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir David Lindsay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis 535\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Description of the 1540 Interlude 538\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAne Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (the 1552–4 text) 541\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextual Variants 624\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Common Hard Words 627\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403429716311,"sku":"9780631217275","price":37.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631217275.jpg?v=1730483448","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medieval-drama-9780631217275","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}