The Towneley Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Towneley Plays write by Garrett P J Epp. This book was released on 2018-02-28. The Towneley Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherds Play.
The Towneley Cycle
The Towneley Cycle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Towneley Cycle write by Peter Happé. This book was released on 2007. The Towneley Cycle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides a detailed overview of the Towneley cycle of plays, which were written c. 1500. The plays begin with the fall of Lucifer and end with the Last Judgement. Peter Happé examines the cycle's textual and manuscript history and discusses issues of language and style, the structure of the cycle, and its possible sources and analogues. He also addresses the historical and religious context of the cycle and its performance history.
The Wakefield Mystery Plays
The Wakefield Mystery Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wakefield Mystery Plays write by Martial Rose. This book was released on 1969. The Wakefield Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete cycle of thirty-two plays.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre write by Richard Beadle. This book was released on 2008-07-10. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.
The Chester Mystery Plays
The Chester Mystery Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chester Mystery Plays write by Maurice Hussey. This book was released on 1957. The Chester Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
