_York Breviary._ Breviarium ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis. Edidit S. W. Lawley. 2 vols. 1880-2. [_Surtees Soc._ lxxi, lxxv.] _York Manual._ Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis. Edidit W. G. Henderson, 1875. [_Surtees Soc._ lxiii. Contains also _Sarum Manual_.] _York Missal._ Missale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis. Edidit W. G. Henderson. 2 vols. 1874. [_Surtees Soc._ lix, lx.] _York Plays._ The Plays performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi. Edited by L. T. Smith, 1885. _Z. f. d. A._ Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum [_afterwards added_ und deutsche Literatur], 1841-1903. [In progress.] _Z. f. rom. Phil._ Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 1877-1903. [In progress.] ZSCHECH. Die Anfänge des englischen Dramas. Von Dr. Zschech, 1886. [Not consulted.] BOOK I MINSTRELSY C’est une étrange entreprise que celle de faire rire les honnêtes gens.--J.-B. POQUELIN DE MOLIÈRE. Molière est un infâme histrion.--J.-B. BOSSUET. CHAPTER I THE FALL OF THE THEATRES [_Bibliographical Note._--A convenient sketch of the history of the Roman stage will be found in G. Körting, _Geschichte des griechischen und römischen Theaters_ (1897). The details given in L. Friedländer, _Sittengeschichte Roms in der Zeit von August bis zum Ausgang der Antonine_ (vol. ii, 7th ed. 1901), and the same writer’s article on _Die Spiele_ in vol. vi of Marquardt and Mommsen’s _Handbuch der römischen Alterthümer_ (2nd ed. 1885), may be supplemented from E. Nöldechen’s article _Tertullian und das Theater_ in _Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte_, xv (1894), 161, for the _fabulae Atellanae_ from A. Dieterich, _Pulcinella_ (1897), chs. 4-8, and for the _pantomimi_ from C. Sittl, _Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer_ (1890), ch. 13. The account in C. Magnin, _Les Origines du Théâtre moderne_ (vol. i, all published, 1838), is by no means obsolete. Teuffel and Schwabe, _History of Latin Literature_, vol. i, §§ 3-18 (trans. G. C. W. Warr, 1891), contains a mass of imperfectly arranged material. The later history of the Greek stage is dealt with by P. E. Müller, _Commentatio historica de genio, moribus et luxu aevi Theodosiani_ (1798), vol. ii, and A. E. Haigh, _Tragic Drama of the Greeks_ (1896), ch. 6. The ecclesiastical prohibitions are collected by W. Prynne, _Histriomastix_ (1633), and J. de Douhet, _Dictionnaire des Mystères_ (1854), and their general attitude summarized by H. Alt, _Theater und Kirche in ihrem gegenseitigen Verhältniss_ (1846). S. Dill, _Roman Society in the Last Century of the Roman Empire_ (2nd ed. 1899), should be consulted for an admirable study of the conditions under which the pre-mediaeval stage came to an end.]