English Miracle Plays,
Moralities
and Interludes.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
W.
A Yorkshire Folk-Play.
Essays and Studies.
Oxford,
1911.
Nichols, J. Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth. 3 vols.
1823.
Northall, G. F. English Folk-rhymes. A collection of traditional verses
relating to places and persons, customs, superstitions, etc. 1892.
Ordish, T. F. English Folk-Drama. Folk-Lore, vol. II, pp. 326 ff. 1891;
vol. iv, pp. 162 ff. 1893.
Reyher, P. Les Masques Anglais. Paris, 1909.
Rhys, J. Celtic Folk-lore: Welsh and Manx. 2 vols. Oxford, 1901.
Ritson, J. Robin Hood: a collection of all the ancient poems, songs and
ballads now extant relative to that celebrated English outlaw. 2 vols.
1795. Several later editions; the last a special edition. 1885.
Sharp, C. J. English Folk-Song. Some Conclusions. 1907.
Snell, F. J. The Fourteenth Century. Edinburgh, 1899.
Strutt, J. (As under sec. I above. ]
Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. English Folk-lore. 1878. Revised ed. 1880.
Tille, A. Yule and Christmas: their place in the Germanio year. 1899.
Tylor, E. B. Primitive Culture. 2 vols. 4th ed. 1903.
Wallaschek, R. Primitive Music. An inquiry into the origin and develop-
ment of music, songs, instruments, dances, and pantomimes of savage
races. 1893.
Wright, T. Essays on Archaeological Subjects. Library ed. 2 vols. 1861.
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THE EARLY RELIGIOUS DRAMA
For bibliographical purposes the following works should be consulted :
Stoddard, F. H. , References for Students of Miracle-Plays and Mysteries,
University of California Library Bulletin 1887, Berkeley (reviewed in Anglia,
vol. XI, pp. 325 ff. ); Greg, List of Plays; Chambers, E. K. , vol. 1, pp. xiii-
xlii, for a list of works made use of in the book; vol. 11, Appendix w, for a list
of dramatic performances in England, topographically arranged; Appendix x
for a catalogue of English dramatic texts; Greg, W. W. Bibliographical
and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles, 1914.
For the general history of the medieval religious drama and its origins
the reader is referred to Creizenach, Chambers and Klein; as well as to
Mone, F. J. , Schauspiele des Mittelalters, Karlsruhe, 1846; Sepet, M. , Le
Drame chrétien au Moyen Âge, Paris, 1878; Hase, K. , Das geistliche Schau-
spiel des Mittelalters (Leipzig, 1858); E. tr. by Jackson, A. W. , 1880; and to
other works mentioned in the bibliographies contained in Chambers, in
Schelling, and in Bates, K. L. , The English Religious Drama, 1893. See also
Smith, G. Gregory, The Transition Period (Periods of European Literature),
1903.
The liturgical drama and its evolution are discussed, more especially, by
Gayley, u. i. ; Sepet, M. , Origines catholiques du Théâtre Moderne, Paris, 1901;
Du Méril, Origines Latines du Théâtre Moderne, vol. 1, Paris, 1849; and
Ebert, A. , Entwicklungsgeschichte der französ. Tragödie, Gotha, 1856. For
the texts of the Quem quaeritis see Wright, T. , Early Mysteries and other
Latin Poems, 1838. Examples of the liturgical drama are included in Manly's
Specimens, vol. 1. Among other collections Coussemaker, E. de, Drames
liturgiques du Moyen Âge, 1860, contains the music with the text. The
liturgical plays of Hilarius have been edited by Champollion-Figeac, J. J. ,
Hilarii Versus et Ludi, Paris, 1838; for accounts of these see Morley, H. ,
vol. I, part 2, pp. 542 ff. , and Ward, vol. 1, pp. 37 ff. For an account of
Anglo-Norman religious drama see Petit de Julleville, u. i. ; as to the allegori-
cal productions of Guillaume Herman and (? ) Étienne Langton see La Rue,
G. de, Essais historiques sur les Bardes et les Trouvères, vol. II, pp. 270-2
and vol. III, pp. 5-11, Caen, 1834; Archaeologia, vol. XIII, pp. 231-4, 1880;
Klein, vol. iv, pp. 107-8.
The transition from the liturgical to the secular drama-from the Church
to the guild-is described by Gayley, chap. VI. Cf. Leach, A. F. , Some
English Plays and Players, in Furnivall Miscellany, 1901, pp. 205-234, for
the view that the miracle-plays did not originate in the monasteries, but were
throughout (in England at all events), in the hands of the civic authorities
and the craft guilds, assisted by the secular clergy.
The following select bibliography includes only works relating to the
English branch of the early English Religious Drama (including the
moralities).
I. GENERAL HISTORY AND CRITICISM.
Brandl's Quellen. Introduction.
Chambers. (See in vol. II, Appendix C, the portion of the Concordia
Regularis referred to in the text, and the Sarum liturgical drama. The
former will also be found in Lange, K. , Die lateinischen Osterfeiern,
Munich, 1887. )
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Bibliography
Collier. Vols. I and 11.
Courthope. Vol. I, chaps. ix and x: The Progress of Allegory, and The
Rise of the Drama in England.
Creizenach. Vols. 1-111.
Gayley, C. M. Plays of our Forefathers, and some of the traditions upon
which they were founded. New York, 1909. (A singularly illuminating
survey. )
Herford's Literary Relations. [As to the Dialogue. ]
Hirzel, R. Der Dialog. Ein literarhistorischer Versuch. 2 vols. Leipzig,
1895.
Irving, D. Dissertations on the Early Scottish Drama In Lives of the
Scottish Poets. Vol. 1, pp. 197-222. 1804.
History of Scottish Poetry. Ed. Carlyle, J. A. Chaps. XVI and XVII.
1861.
Jusserand's Th. en A.
Klein. Vols. XII and XIII.
Morley, H. Vol. II, part 1.
Pollard, A. W.
English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes. With
Introduction and Notes. Oxford, 1890. 5th ed. 1909. [Extremely
useful. )
Saintsbury, G. History of English Prosody. Vol. 1, pp. 203 ff. 1906.
Snell, F. J. The Age of Transition, 1400-1580. With an Introduction by
Hales, J. W. (Handbooks of English Literature). Vol. 1. 1905.
Symmes, H. S. Les Débuts de la Critique Dramatique en Angleterre.
Paris, 1903. (As to the attitude of the clergy towards the drama. )
Taylor, G. C. The English Planctus Mariæ. Modern Philology, vol. iv,
pp. 605-637, Jan. 1907.
Thien, H. Über die englischen Marienklagen. (Diss. ) Kiel, 1906.
Ward. Vol. 1, pp. 29-157.
Warton. Vol. III, section 33.
Wright, T. Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems of the XIIth and
XIIIth centuries. 1838.
Wright, T. and Halliwell[-Phillipps),J. O. Reliquiae Antiquae. 2 vols. , 1841-3.
Contains the text of the Interludium de Clerico et Puella, vol. 1, p. 145;
also the Wyclifite Tretise of Miraclis Pleying. The former is ed. by
Henser in Anglia, vol. xxx, p. 306, 1907.
II. MYSTERIES AND MIRACLE-PLAYS.
A. General History and Criticism.
Bateson, Mary. Medieval England. 1905.
Davidson, C. Studies in the English Mystery Plays. 1892. [Contains a
survey of the prosody of the plays. ]
Ebert, A. Die Englischen Mysterien. Jahrb. für roman. und engl. Literatur,
Vol. 1. Berlin, 1859.
Emerson, O. F. Legends of Cain. Publ. of Mod. Lang. Assoc. New Series,
vol. xiv, pp. 831-929, Dec. 1906.
Green, Alice Stopford. Town life in the fifteenth century. Vol. 1, pp. 175 ff.
1894. (For the relations of the religious plays to the life of the English
towns. ]
Hone, W. Ancient Mysteries described, especially the English Miracle
Plays. . . extant among the unpublished MSS in the British Museum.
1823.
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Napier, A. 8. The History of the Holy Rood Tree. E. E. T. S. 1894. (For
the influence of Cursor Mundi and other sources. ]
Pearson, C. H. History of England during the Early Middle Ages. Vol. I,
pp. 636 ff. 1867.
Petit de Julleville. Vol. 1. Les Mystères.
Smith, J. T. English Gilds. The original ordinances of more than one
hundred English Gilds. With introduction and glossary by Smith,
Lucy Toulmin. E. E. T. 8. Publ. XL. 1870.
Wright, J. Essays on Archaeological subjects. Vol. 11. 1861.
Wilcker, R. P. Das Evangelium Nicodem's in der abendländ. Literatur.
Paderborn, 1872.
B. Collective Mysteries.
Gayley, C. M. Sources of the Cycles. (Appendix to Plays of our Forefathers.
See seo. I above. )
Hemingway, S. B. English Nativity Plays, ed. with Introduction, Notes
and Glossary. New York, 1909. [This contains a list of the editions of
the Collective Mysteries. ]
Hohlfeld, B. Altenglische Kollektivmysterien, unter besonderer Berück.
sichtigung der York- und Towneley-Spiele. Anglia, vol. XI, 1889.
[Extremely acute. )
Marriott, W. A Collection of English Miracle-plays or Mysteries, containing
the dramas from the Chester, Coventry and Towneley series, with Candle-
mas-Day and Bale's God's Promises. Basel, 1838.
Chester Plays.
Chester Plays. A Collection of Mysteries founded upon Scriptural Subjeots
and formerly represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide. Ed. ,
with Introduction, by Wright, T. 2 vols. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1843-7.
Printed in vol. 1 of Amyot's Suppl. to Dodsley.
(the first thirteen). Ed. Deimling, H. , for E. E. T. S. Extra Ser. LXXII.
1893.
Plays: Noah's Flood and Histories of Lot and Abraham. Ptd,
abridged, in Manly's Specimens and in Pollard's English Miracle Plays.
Ungemach, H. Die Quellen der fünf ersten Chester Plays. (Münchener
Beiträge. ) Erlangon and Leipzig. 1890.
Coventry Plays.
Ludus Coventriae.
1911.
Nichols, J. Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth. 3 vols.
1823.
Northall, G. F. English Folk-rhymes. A collection of traditional verses
relating to places and persons, customs, superstitions, etc. 1892.
Ordish, T. F. English Folk-Drama. Folk-Lore, vol. II, pp. 326 ff. 1891;
vol. iv, pp. 162 ff. 1893.
Reyher, P. Les Masques Anglais. Paris, 1909.
Rhys, J. Celtic Folk-lore: Welsh and Manx. 2 vols. Oxford, 1901.
Ritson, J. Robin Hood: a collection of all the ancient poems, songs and
ballads now extant relative to that celebrated English outlaw. 2 vols.
1795. Several later editions; the last a special edition. 1885.
Sharp, C. J. English Folk-Song. Some Conclusions. 1907.
Snell, F. J. The Fourteenth Century. Edinburgh, 1899.
Strutt, J. (As under sec. I above. ]
Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. English Folk-lore. 1878. Revised ed. 1880.
Tille, A. Yule and Christmas: their place in the Germanio year. 1899.
Tylor, E. B. Primitive Culture. 2 vols. 4th ed. 1903.
Wallaschek, R. Primitive Music. An inquiry into the origin and develop-
ment of music, songs, instruments, dances, and pantomimes of savage
races. 1893.
Wright, T. Essays on Archaeological Subjects. Library ed. 2 vols. 1861.
[Vol. 11. ]
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CHAPTER III
.
>
THE EARLY RELIGIOUS DRAMA
For bibliographical purposes the following works should be consulted :
Stoddard, F. H. , References for Students of Miracle-Plays and Mysteries,
University of California Library Bulletin 1887, Berkeley (reviewed in Anglia,
vol. XI, pp. 325 ff. ); Greg, List of Plays; Chambers, E. K. , vol. 1, pp. xiii-
xlii, for a list of works made use of in the book; vol. 11, Appendix w, for a list
of dramatic performances in England, topographically arranged; Appendix x
for a catalogue of English dramatic texts; Greg, W. W. Bibliographical
and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles, 1914.
For the general history of the medieval religious drama and its origins
the reader is referred to Creizenach, Chambers and Klein; as well as to
Mone, F. J. , Schauspiele des Mittelalters, Karlsruhe, 1846; Sepet, M. , Le
Drame chrétien au Moyen Âge, Paris, 1878; Hase, K. , Das geistliche Schau-
spiel des Mittelalters (Leipzig, 1858); E. tr. by Jackson, A. W. , 1880; and to
other works mentioned in the bibliographies contained in Chambers, in
Schelling, and in Bates, K. L. , The English Religious Drama, 1893. See also
Smith, G. Gregory, The Transition Period (Periods of European Literature),
1903.
The liturgical drama and its evolution are discussed, more especially, by
Gayley, u. i. ; Sepet, M. , Origines catholiques du Théâtre Moderne, Paris, 1901;
Du Méril, Origines Latines du Théâtre Moderne, vol. 1, Paris, 1849; and
Ebert, A. , Entwicklungsgeschichte der französ. Tragödie, Gotha, 1856. For
the texts of the Quem quaeritis see Wright, T. , Early Mysteries and other
Latin Poems, 1838. Examples of the liturgical drama are included in Manly's
Specimens, vol. 1. Among other collections Coussemaker, E. de, Drames
liturgiques du Moyen Âge, 1860, contains the music with the text. The
liturgical plays of Hilarius have been edited by Champollion-Figeac, J. J. ,
Hilarii Versus et Ludi, Paris, 1838; for accounts of these see Morley, H. ,
vol. I, part 2, pp. 542 ff. , and Ward, vol. 1, pp. 37 ff. For an account of
Anglo-Norman religious drama see Petit de Julleville, u. i. ; as to the allegori-
cal productions of Guillaume Herman and (? ) Étienne Langton see La Rue,
G. de, Essais historiques sur les Bardes et les Trouvères, vol. II, pp. 270-2
and vol. III, pp. 5-11, Caen, 1834; Archaeologia, vol. XIII, pp. 231-4, 1880;
Klein, vol. iv, pp. 107-8.
The transition from the liturgical to the secular drama-from the Church
to the guild-is described by Gayley, chap. VI. Cf. Leach, A. F. , Some
English Plays and Players, in Furnivall Miscellany, 1901, pp. 205-234, for
the view that the miracle-plays did not originate in the monasteries, but were
throughout (in England at all events), in the hands of the civic authorities
and the craft guilds, assisted by the secular clergy.
The following select bibliography includes only works relating to the
English branch of the early English Religious Drama (including the
moralities).
I. GENERAL HISTORY AND CRITICISM.
Brandl's Quellen. Introduction.
Chambers. (See in vol. II, Appendix C, the portion of the Concordia
Regularis referred to in the text, and the Sarum liturgical drama. The
former will also be found in Lange, K. , Die lateinischen Osterfeiern,
Munich, 1887. )
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388
Bibliography
Collier. Vols. I and 11.
Courthope. Vol. I, chaps. ix and x: The Progress of Allegory, and The
Rise of the Drama in England.
Creizenach. Vols. 1-111.
Gayley, C. M. Plays of our Forefathers, and some of the traditions upon
which they were founded. New York, 1909. (A singularly illuminating
survey. )
Herford's Literary Relations. [As to the Dialogue. ]
Hirzel, R. Der Dialog. Ein literarhistorischer Versuch. 2 vols. Leipzig,
1895.
Irving, D. Dissertations on the Early Scottish Drama In Lives of the
Scottish Poets. Vol. 1, pp. 197-222. 1804.
History of Scottish Poetry. Ed. Carlyle, J. A. Chaps. XVI and XVII.
1861.
Jusserand's Th. en A.
Klein. Vols. XII and XIII.
Morley, H. Vol. II, part 1.
Pollard, A. W.
English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes. With
Introduction and Notes. Oxford, 1890. 5th ed. 1909. [Extremely
useful. )
Saintsbury, G. History of English Prosody. Vol. 1, pp. 203 ff. 1906.
Snell, F. J. The Age of Transition, 1400-1580. With an Introduction by
Hales, J. W. (Handbooks of English Literature). Vol. 1. 1905.
Symmes, H. S. Les Débuts de la Critique Dramatique en Angleterre.
Paris, 1903. (As to the attitude of the clergy towards the drama. )
Taylor, G. C. The English Planctus Mariæ. Modern Philology, vol. iv,
pp. 605-637, Jan. 1907.
Thien, H. Über die englischen Marienklagen. (Diss. ) Kiel, 1906.
Ward. Vol. 1, pp. 29-157.
Warton. Vol. III, section 33.
Wright, T. Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems of the XIIth and
XIIIth centuries. 1838.
Wright, T. and Halliwell[-Phillipps),J. O. Reliquiae Antiquae. 2 vols. , 1841-3.
Contains the text of the Interludium de Clerico et Puella, vol. 1, p. 145;
also the Wyclifite Tretise of Miraclis Pleying. The former is ed. by
Henser in Anglia, vol. xxx, p. 306, 1907.
II. MYSTERIES AND MIRACLE-PLAYS.
A. General History and Criticism.
Bateson, Mary. Medieval England. 1905.
Davidson, C. Studies in the English Mystery Plays. 1892. [Contains a
survey of the prosody of the plays. ]
Ebert, A. Die Englischen Mysterien. Jahrb. für roman. und engl. Literatur,
Vol. 1. Berlin, 1859.
Emerson, O. F. Legends of Cain. Publ. of Mod. Lang. Assoc. New Series,
vol. xiv, pp. 831-929, Dec. 1906.
Green, Alice Stopford. Town life in the fifteenth century. Vol. 1, pp. 175 ff.
1894. (For the relations of the religious plays to the life of the English
towns. ]
Hone, W. Ancient Mysteries described, especially the English Miracle
Plays. . . extant among the unpublished MSS in the British Museum.
1823.
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389
Napier, A. 8. The History of the Holy Rood Tree. E. E. T. S. 1894. (For
the influence of Cursor Mundi and other sources. ]
Pearson, C. H. History of England during the Early Middle Ages. Vol. I,
pp. 636 ff. 1867.
Petit de Julleville. Vol. 1. Les Mystères.
Smith, J. T. English Gilds. The original ordinances of more than one
hundred English Gilds. With introduction and glossary by Smith,
Lucy Toulmin. E. E. T. 8. Publ. XL. 1870.
Wright, J. Essays on Archaeological subjects. Vol. 11. 1861.
Wilcker, R. P. Das Evangelium Nicodem's in der abendländ. Literatur.
Paderborn, 1872.
B. Collective Mysteries.
Gayley, C. M. Sources of the Cycles. (Appendix to Plays of our Forefathers.
See seo. I above. )
Hemingway, S. B. English Nativity Plays, ed. with Introduction, Notes
and Glossary. New York, 1909. [This contains a list of the editions of
the Collective Mysteries. ]
Hohlfeld, B. Altenglische Kollektivmysterien, unter besonderer Berück.
sichtigung der York- und Towneley-Spiele. Anglia, vol. XI, 1889.
[Extremely acute. )
Marriott, W. A Collection of English Miracle-plays or Mysteries, containing
the dramas from the Chester, Coventry and Towneley series, with Candle-
mas-Day and Bale's God's Promises. Basel, 1838.
Chester Plays.
Chester Plays. A Collection of Mysteries founded upon Scriptural Subjeots
and formerly represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide. Ed. ,
with Introduction, by Wright, T. 2 vols. Shakesp. Soc. Publ. 1843-7.
Printed in vol. 1 of Amyot's Suppl. to Dodsley.
(the first thirteen). Ed. Deimling, H. , for E. E. T. S. Extra Ser. LXXII.
1893.
Plays: Noah's Flood and Histories of Lot and Abraham. Ptd,
abridged, in Manly's Specimens and in Pollard's English Miracle Plays.
Ungemach, H. Die Quellen der fünf ersten Chester Plays. (Münchener
Beiträge. ) Erlangon and Leipzig. 1890.
Coventry Plays.
Ludus Coventriae.
