(For list of printed
versions
of the Mummers' Play, see vol.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
Litteratur von ihren Anfängen
bis zur Gegenwart. 4th ed. Munster, 1905. (Körting. )
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.
With an introduction by Archer, W. Authorised trans. by Cassel,
Louise von. 5 vols. 1903 ff.
Morley, H. English Writers. Revised and enlarged ed. 11 vols. 1887-95.
(Morley, H. )
Petit de Julleville, L. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises
des Origines à 1900. 8 vols. Paris, 1896–1900.
Histoire du Théâtre en France au Moyen Âge. 4 vols. Paris, 1880-6.
(Petit de Julleville. )
Prölss, R. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. 3 vols. 1881-3. [Vol. 11. 2 con-
cerns the English drama. ] (Prölss. )
Schlegel, A. W. von. Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst. (Schlegel's
Sämmtliche Werke, vols. V and vi. ) Eng. trans. by Black, J. , revised
by Morrison, A. J. W. 1846. (Schlegel, E. Tr. )
Taine, H. A. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 4 vols. 1863-4 (and sub-
sequent editions). Eng. trans. 2 vols. 1872. (Taine, E. Tr. )
Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der Englischen Literatur. Ed. Brandi, A. Vol. 1.
Strassburg, 1899.
Vol. II.
Strassburg, 1893. Eng. trans. 3 vols.
1883–96. (Ten Brink, E. Tr. )
Warton, T. History of English Poetry. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 4 vols. 1871.
(Warton. )
Apart from English, American and foreign periodical publications devoted
to the discussion of English linguistic and literary subjects in particular
(including the publications of The Early English Text Society), or of subjects
appertaining to Germanio or to Modern Literature generally (including
Anglia, Englische Studien, the Journal of the Modern Languages Asso-
ciation, now The Modern Language Review, Modern Language Notes
(Baltimore)), mention should be made here of the Transactions and
Publications of the Shakespeare Society, 1844-53, and of the New Shak-
spere Society, 1874-96; as well as of the still flourishing Jahrbuch der
deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, from 1865. These publications,
which alike possess a signal and varied interest for the student of English
dramatic literature, are cited respectively under the headings of Shakesp.
Soc. , New Shakep. Soc. , and Shakesp. Jahrb. See, especially, Mod. Lang.
Rev. , General Index to volumes 1-X, Cambridge, 1915.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
This chapter being introductory in character, the bibliographical
information illustrating its contents will be found in the bibliographies
to chapters II and III, and, incidentally, in those to later chapters.
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Chapter II
385
CHAPTER II
SECULAR INFLUENCES ON THE EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA
A bibliography of this subject is given by Chambers, vol. 1, pp. xiii-xlii,
and the bibliographical notes which appear at the head of nearly every
chapter of his work will be found invaluable. The bibliography that follows
represents an attempt to select only what is essential. Among the Dramatic
and General Literary Histories enumerated above special attention should be
directed to Chambers, the standard authority on this subject; for the relations
with France see, also, Du Méril (Période Primitive) and in vols. I and II
of Petit de Julleville: Les Comédiens en France au Moyen Âge; La
Comédie et les Mours en France au Moyen Âge. Paris, 1885 and 1886.
I. THE MINSTRELS.
Bédier, J. Les Fabliaux: Études de Littérature populaire et d'Histoire
littéraire du Moyen Âge. 2nd ed. Paris, 1895.
Chambers, E. K. and Sidgwick, F. Early English Lyrics. 1907.
Chappell, W. Old English Popular Music. Ed. Wooldridge, H. E. 1893. .
Dill, S. Roman Society in the last Century of the Western Empire. 2nd ed.
1899.
Freymond, E. Jongleurs und Menestrals. Halle, 1883.
Gautier, L. Les Épopées françaises. 4 vols. 2nd ed. Paris, 1872-82.
Gummere, F. B. The Beginnings of Poetry. New York, 1901.
Jusserand, J. J. La Vie Nomade en Angleterre au Moyen Âge. Paris,
1884. E. tr. by Smith, L. T. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle
Ages (xivth century). 4th ed. 1892.
Magnin, C. Les Origines du Théâtre moderne, ou l'Histoire du génie
dramatique depuis le premier jusqu'au seizième siècle. Vol. 1. Paris,
1838.
Histoire des Marionettes en Europe depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours.
2nd ed. Paris, 1862.
Maugras, G. Les comédiens hors la loi. Paris, 1887.
Percy, T. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Ed. Wheatley, H. B. 1876.
Ritson, J. Ancient English Metrical Romances. 1802.
Ancient Songs and Ballads. 1829.
Strutt, J. Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. 1810. Ed. Hone, W.
1830. Ed. Cox, J. C. 1903.
Tunison, J. S. Dramatic Traditions of the Dark Ages. Chicago, 1907.
II. FOLK-DRAMA AND EARLY PAGEANTRY.
Brand, J. Observations on Popular Antiquities, chiefly illustrating the origin
of our vulgar customs, ceremonies and superstitions. Ed. Ellis, Sir H.
3 vols. 1840-2. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 1870.
Brotanek, R. Die englischen Maskenspiele. Vienna, 1902.
Chambers.
(For list of printed versions of the Mummers' Play, see vol. 1,
pp. 205-6. )
E. L. V.
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Bibliography
Courtney, W. P. A Register of National Bibliography. Vol. 1. 1905. (For
folk-lore bibliography. ]
Cox, M. R. An Introduction to Folk-lore. 2nd ed. 1897.
Ditchfield, P. H. Old English customs extant at the present time. 1896.
Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs. 1891.
Douce, F. Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of ancient manners: with
dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare, and on the English
Morris Dance. 1839.
Dyer, T. F. T. British popular customs, present and past, arranged according
to the Calendar of the year. 1876.
English Folk-lore. 1878. Revised ed. 1880.
Fairholt, F. W. Lord Mayor's Pageants, being collections towards a history of
these annual celebrations. 2 parts. Percy Society Publ. , vol. x. 1843-4.
Folk-Lore: a quarterly review of myth, tradition, institution, and custom.
1890, etc.
Folk-Lore Journal, The. 1883, etc.
Folk-Lore Record, The. 1878, etc.
Frazer, J. G. The Golden Bough. 3rd ed. 1907.
Gascoigne, G. The Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth. Rptd 1821.
Gomme, A. B. The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland,
with tunes. Part 1 of A Dictionary of British Folklore. Ed. Gomme,
G. L. 2 vols. 1894-9.
Gomme, G. L. Christmas Mummers. In Nature, vol. LVII, p. 175, 1897.
Gummere, F. B. [As under sec. I above. ]
Hazlitt, W. C. Faiths and Folklore. 2 vols. 1905.
Henderson, W. Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England
and the Borders. 2nd ed. Folklore Society Publ. 1879.
Laneham, R. Robert Laneham's Letter: describing a part of the entertain-
ment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenilworth in 1575. Ed.
Furnivall, F. J. (The Shakespeare Library. ) 1907.
Moorman, F. 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.
[Vol. 11. ]
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387
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.
bis zur Gegenwart. 4th ed. Munster, 1905. (Körting. )
Mantzius, K. A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times.
With an introduction by Archer, W. Authorised trans. by Cassel,
Louise von. 5 vols. 1903 ff.
Morley, H. English Writers. Revised and enlarged ed. 11 vols. 1887-95.
(Morley, H. )
Petit de Julleville, L. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises
des Origines à 1900. 8 vols. Paris, 1896–1900.
Histoire du Théâtre en France au Moyen Âge. 4 vols. Paris, 1880-6.
(Petit de Julleville. )
Prölss, R. Geschichte des neueren Dramas. 3 vols. 1881-3. [Vol. 11. 2 con-
cerns the English drama. ] (Prölss. )
Schlegel, A. W. von. Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst. (Schlegel's
Sämmtliche Werke, vols. V and vi. ) Eng. trans. by Black, J. , revised
by Morrison, A. J. W. 1846. (Schlegel, E. Tr. )
Taine, H. A. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 4 vols. 1863-4 (and sub-
sequent editions). Eng. trans. 2 vols. 1872. (Taine, E. Tr. )
Ten Brink, B. Geschichte der Englischen Literatur. Ed. Brandi, A. Vol. 1.
Strassburg, 1899.
Vol. II.
Strassburg, 1893. Eng. trans. 3 vols.
1883–96. (Ten Brink, E. Tr. )
Warton, T. History of English Poetry. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 4 vols. 1871.
(Warton. )
Apart from English, American and foreign periodical publications devoted
to the discussion of English linguistic and literary subjects in particular
(including the publications of The Early English Text Society), or of subjects
appertaining to Germanio or to Modern Literature generally (including
Anglia, Englische Studien, the Journal of the Modern Languages Asso-
ciation, now The Modern Language Review, Modern Language Notes
(Baltimore)), mention should be made here of the Transactions and
Publications of the Shakespeare Society, 1844-53, and of the New Shak-
spere Society, 1874-96; as well as of the still flourishing Jahrbuch der
deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, from 1865. These publications,
which alike possess a signal and varied interest for the student of English
dramatic literature, are cited respectively under the headings of Shakesp.
Soc. , New Shakep. Soc. , and Shakesp. Jahrb. See, especially, Mod. Lang.
Rev. , General Index to volumes 1-X, Cambridge, 1915.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
This chapter being introductory in character, the bibliographical
information illustrating its contents will be found in the bibliographies
to chapters II and III, and, incidentally, in those to later chapters.
## p. 385 (#409) ############################################
Chapter II
385
CHAPTER II
SECULAR INFLUENCES ON THE EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA
A bibliography of this subject is given by Chambers, vol. 1, pp. xiii-xlii,
and the bibliographical notes which appear at the head of nearly every
chapter of his work will be found invaluable. The bibliography that follows
represents an attempt to select only what is essential. Among the Dramatic
and General Literary Histories enumerated above special attention should be
directed to Chambers, the standard authority on this subject; for the relations
with France see, also, Du Méril (Période Primitive) and in vols. I and II
of Petit de Julleville: Les Comédiens en France au Moyen Âge; La
Comédie et les Mours en France au Moyen Âge. Paris, 1885 and 1886.
I. THE MINSTRELS.
Bédier, J. Les Fabliaux: Études de Littérature populaire et d'Histoire
littéraire du Moyen Âge. 2nd ed. Paris, 1895.
Chambers, E. K. and Sidgwick, F. Early English Lyrics. 1907.
Chappell, W. Old English Popular Music. Ed. Wooldridge, H. E. 1893. .
Dill, S. Roman Society in the last Century of the Western Empire. 2nd ed.
1899.
Freymond, E. Jongleurs und Menestrals. Halle, 1883.
Gautier, L. Les Épopées françaises. 4 vols. 2nd ed. Paris, 1872-82.
Gummere, F. B. The Beginnings of Poetry. New York, 1901.
Jusserand, J. J. La Vie Nomade en Angleterre au Moyen Âge. Paris,
1884. E. tr. by Smith, L. T. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle
Ages (xivth century). 4th ed. 1892.
Magnin, C. Les Origines du Théâtre moderne, ou l'Histoire du génie
dramatique depuis le premier jusqu'au seizième siècle. Vol. 1. Paris,
1838.
Histoire des Marionettes en Europe depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours.
2nd ed. Paris, 1862.
Maugras, G. Les comédiens hors la loi. Paris, 1887.
Percy, T. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Ed. Wheatley, H. B. 1876.
Ritson, J. Ancient English Metrical Romances. 1802.
Ancient Songs and Ballads. 1829.
Strutt, J. Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. 1810. Ed. Hone, W.
1830. Ed. Cox, J. C. 1903.
Tunison, J. S. Dramatic Traditions of the Dark Ages. Chicago, 1907.
II. FOLK-DRAMA AND EARLY PAGEANTRY.
Brand, J. Observations on Popular Antiquities, chiefly illustrating the origin
of our vulgar customs, ceremonies and superstitions. Ed. Ellis, Sir H.
3 vols. 1840-2. Ed. Hazlitt, W. C. 1870.
Brotanek, R. Die englischen Maskenspiele. Vienna, 1902.
Chambers.
(For list of printed versions of the Mummers' Play, see vol. 1,
pp. 205-6. )
E. L. V.
25
## p. 386 (#410) ############################################
386
Bibliography
Courtney, W. P. A Register of National Bibliography. Vol. 1. 1905. (For
folk-lore bibliography. ]
Cox, M. R. An Introduction to Folk-lore. 2nd ed. 1897.
Ditchfield, P. H. Old English customs extant at the present time. 1896.
Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs. 1891.
Douce, F. Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of ancient manners: with
dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare, and on the English
Morris Dance. 1839.
Dyer, T. F. T. British popular customs, present and past, arranged according
to the Calendar of the year. 1876.
English Folk-lore. 1878. Revised ed. 1880.
Fairholt, F. W. Lord Mayor's Pageants, being collections towards a history of
these annual celebrations. 2 parts. Percy Society Publ. , vol. x. 1843-4.
Folk-Lore: a quarterly review of myth, tradition, institution, and custom.
1890, etc.
Folk-Lore Journal, The. 1883, etc.
Folk-Lore Record, The. 1878, etc.
Frazer, J. G. The Golden Bough. 3rd ed. 1907.
Gascoigne, G. The Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth. Rptd 1821.
Gomme, A. B. The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland,
with tunes. Part 1 of A Dictionary of British Folklore. Ed. Gomme,
G. L. 2 vols. 1894-9.
Gomme, G. L. Christmas Mummers. In Nature, vol. LVII, p. 175, 1897.
Gummere, F. B. [As under sec. I above. ]
Hazlitt, W. C. Faiths and Folklore. 2 vols. 1905.
Henderson, W. Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England
and the Borders. 2nd ed. Folklore Society Publ. 1879.
Laneham, R. Robert Laneham's Letter: describing a part of the entertain-
ment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenilworth in 1575. Ed.
Furnivall, F. J. (The Shakespeare Library. ) 1907.
Moorman, F. 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.
[Vol. 11. ]
1
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Chapter III
387
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.
