The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
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The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)
Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
Drama, Medieval -- History and criticism; Theater -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
(1825), is still a mine of material on the _Realien_ of the
stage.—The four great cycles have been edited as follows, in
most cases with important introductions: the _Chester Plays_ by
T. Wright (_Shakespeare Society_, 1843-7) and by H. Deimling
(_E. E. T. S._, part only issued in 1893); the _York Plays_
by L. T. Smith (1885); the _Towneley_ or _Wakefield Plays_
by an uncertain editor (_Surtees Society_, 1836), and by G.
England and A. W. Pollard (_E. E. T. S._ 1897); the _Ludus
Coventriae_, by J. O. Halliwell [-Phillipps] (_Shakespeare
Society_, 1841). A miscellaneous collection of late plays
from one of the _Bodleian Digby MSS._ has been printed by T.
Sharp (_Abbotsford Club_, 1835), and F. J. Furnivall (_New
Shakespeare Society_, 1882, _E. E. T. S._ 1896). The Cornish
cycle is in E. Norris, _The Ancient Cornish Drama_ (1859).
Good selections of typical plays are in A. W. Pollard’s book,
and J. M. Manly, _Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama_
(1897), vol. i. Older books of the same kind are J. P. Collier,
_Five Miracle Plays, or Scriptural Dramas_ (1836), and W.
Marriott, _A Collection of English Miracle Plays or Mysteries_
(Basle, 1838). The bibliographies given by Miss Bates and by
F. H. Stoddard, _References for Students of Miracle Plays and
Mysteries_ (1887), may be supplemented from my _Appendices of
Representations_ and _Texts_, which I have tried to make as
complete as possible.]
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