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.
the dramas from the Chester, Coventry and Towneley series, with Candle-
mas-Day and Bale's God's Promises.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
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. A Collection of Mysteries formerly represented at Coventry
on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O. Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. 1841.
Sharp, T. A Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries,
anciently performed at Coventry. Coventry, 1825. This contains
The Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, performed at Coventry,
which is also ptd in Manly's Specimens and in Pollard, A. W. ,
Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse, 1903.
Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays. (The Shearmen and Taylors'
Pageant and the Weavers' Pageant. ) Ed. Craig, H. E. E. T. S.
Extra Ser. LXXXVII. 1902.
Dodds, M. H. The Problem of the Ludus Coventriae. Mod. Lang.
Rev. vol. ix, 1914.
Play xi (Salutatio et Conceptio). Ptd, abridged, in Pollard's English
Miracle Plays.
The Presentation in the Temple. (The Weavers' Pageant. ) Ed.
Sharp, T. Abbotsford Club Publ. 1836. Ed. Holthausen, F. In
Anglia, vol. xxv, pp. 209-250, 1902.
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and Gordon, J. , and Stevenson, J. S. , have been successively stated to
have edited this volume. )
Plays. Ed. England, G. , with Introduction by Pollard, A. W. E. E. T. S.
Extra Ser. LXXI. 1897.
Play xul (Secunda Pastorum). Rptd in Manly's Specimens and
Marriott, and, abridged, in Pollard, A. W. , English Miracle Plays, etc.
Bunzen, A. Zur Kritik der Wakefield Mysterien. (Diss. ) Kiel, 1903.
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Skeat, W. W. The Locality of the Towneley Plays. In Athenæum,
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York Plays.
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1885. (A work of exceptional value. ]
Craigie, W. A. The Gospel of Nicodemus and the York Mystery
Plays. In Furnivall Miscellany, 1901.
Hertrich, O. Studien zu den York Plays. (Diss. ) Breslau, 1886.
Holthausen, F. The York Plays. Herrig's Archiv, vols. LXXXV-LXXXVI,
1890-1.
Zur Textkritik der York Plays. In Philolog. Studien, Festgabe
für E. Sieverg. Halle, 1896.
Kamann, P. Die Quellen der York Plays. Publ. in Anglia, vol. X,
1888. (Diss. ) Leipzig, 1887.
C. Other Mysteries and Miracle-plays.
Abraham and Isaac. (The ‘Brome' Play. ) Ed. Smith, L. Toulmin, in Anglia,
vol. vii, 1884. See also Non-Cycle Mystery Plays below. [Apparently
not part of a cycle. ]
(The Sacrifice of Abraham. ) Privately ptd by Collier, J. P. from a MS
discovered at Dublin. 1836. Ed. Brotanek, R. In Anglia, vol. XXI,
1899.
Adam and Eve. The Story of the Creation of Eve, with the expelling of
Adam and Eve out of Paradyse. (The Grocers' Play at Norwich. ) Ed.
Fitch, R. Privately printed. Norwich, 1856. See also Non-Cycle
Mystery Plays below.
Digby Mysteries. (St Mary Magdalen, Massacre of the Innocents, Conversion
of St Paul. ) Ed. Sharp, T. Abbotsford Club Publ. 1835. The first of
these is ptd in Origin of E. D. , vol. 1.
Ed. Furnivall, F. J. Shaksp. Soc. Publ. 1882. Re-issued for E. E. T. S.
Extra Ser. Lxx, 1896. This also contains the Play of Christ's Burial and
Resurrection from another Bodleian MS.
Parfres Candlemas Day,' or the Kyllynge of the children of Israel.
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.
## p. 389 (#413) ############################################
Chapter III
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. A Collection of Mysteries formerly represented at Coventry
on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Ed. Halliwell[-Phillipps), J. O. Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. 1841.
Sharp, T. A Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries,
anciently performed at Coventry. Coventry, 1825. This contains
The Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, performed at Coventry,
which is also ptd in Manly's Specimens and in Pollard, A. W. ,
Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse, 1903.
Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays. (The Shearmen and Taylors'
Pageant and the Weavers' Pageant. ) Ed. Craig, H. E. E. T. S.
Extra Ser. LXXXVII. 1902.
Dodds, M. H. The Problem of the Ludus Coventriae. Mod. Lang.
Rev. vol. ix, 1914.
Play xi (Salutatio et Conceptio). Ptd, abridged, in Pollard's English
Miracle Plays.
The Presentation in the Temple. (The Weavers' Pageant. ) Ed.
Sharp, T. Abbotsford Club Publ. 1836. Ed. Holthausen, F. In
Anglia, vol. xxv, pp. 209-250, 1902.
## p. 390 (#414) ############################################
390
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Towneley (Wakefield) Plays.
Towneley Mysteries. Printed for the Surtees Society. 1836. (Raine, J. ,
and Gordon, J. , and Stevenson, J. S. , have been successively stated to
have edited this volume. )
Plays. Ed. England, G. , with Introduction by Pollard, A. W. E. E. T. S.
Extra Ser. LXXI. 1897.
Play xul (Secunda Pastorum). Rptd in Manly's Specimens and
Marriott, and, abridged, in Pollard, A. W. , English Miracle Plays, etc.
Bunzen, A. Zur Kritik der Wakefield Mysterien. (Diss. ) Kiel, 1903.
Peacock, M. H. The Wakefield Mysteries. In Anglia, vol. xxiv, 1901.
Skeat, W. W. The Locality of the Towneley Plays. In Athenæum,
2 December 1893.
York Plays.
York Plays. Ed. , with Introduction and Glossary, by Smith, Lucy Toulmin.
1885. (A work of exceptional value. ]
Craigie, W. A. The Gospel of Nicodemus and the York Mystery
Plays. In Furnivall Miscellany, 1901.
Hertrich, O. Studien zu den York Plays. (Diss. ) Breslau, 1886.
Holthausen, F. The York Plays. Herrig's Archiv, vols. LXXXV-LXXXVI,
1890-1.
Zur Textkritik der York Plays. In Philolog. Studien, Festgabe
für E. Sieverg. Halle, 1896.
Kamann, P. Die Quellen der York Plays. Publ. in Anglia, vol. X,
1888. (Diss. ) Leipzig, 1887.
C. Other Mysteries and Miracle-plays.
Abraham and Isaac. (The ‘Brome' Play. ) Ed. Smith, L. Toulmin, in Anglia,
vol. vii, 1884. See also Non-Cycle Mystery Plays below. [Apparently
not part of a cycle. ]
(The Sacrifice of Abraham. ) Privately ptd by Collier, J. P. from a MS
discovered at Dublin. 1836. Ed. Brotanek, R. In Anglia, vol. XXI,
1899.
Adam and Eve. The Story of the Creation of Eve, with the expelling of
Adam and Eve out of Paradyse. (The Grocers' Play at Norwich. ) Ed.
Fitch, R. Privately printed. Norwich, 1856. See also Non-Cycle
Mystery Plays below.
Digby Mysteries. (St Mary Magdalen, Massacre of the Innocents, Conversion
of St Paul. ) Ed. Sharp, T. Abbotsford Club Publ. 1835. The first of
these is ptd in Origin of E. D. , vol. 1.
Ed. Furnivall, F. J. Shaksp. Soc. Publ. 1882. Re-issued for E. E. T. S.
Extra Ser. Lxx, 1896. This also contains the Play of Christ's Burial and
Resurrection from another Bodleian MS.
Parfres Candlemas Day,' or the Kyllynge of the children of Israel.
