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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Drama

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Bibliographies
Concordances
Critical editions
Manuscripts and Facsimiles
Secondary Sources

Manuscripts and Facsimiles

The Chester mystery cycle : a facsimile of British Library MS Harley 2124
Call Number: PR1261 .C54 1984
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The Chester mystery cycle : a facsimile of MS Bodley 175
Call Number: PR1261 .C54 1973
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref

Critical Editions

York Mystery Plays: a selection in modern spelling by Richard Beadle (Editor); Pamela King (Editor)
Call Number: PR1261 .Y67 1995
The York Plays: a critical edition of the York Corpus Christi play as recorded in British Library Additional MS 35290 by Richard Beadle (Editor)
Call Number: PR1261 .Y67 2009
Publication Date: 2009-12-13
The Towneley Plays by Martin Stevens (Editor); A. C. Cawley (Editor)
Call Number: PR1261 .T68 1994
Medieval Drama by Greg Walker
Call Number: PR1260 .M43 2000
The Chester Mystery Cycle: a new edition with modernised spelling by David Mills (Editor)
Call Number: PR1260 .C35 1992
Early English Drama: an anthology by John C. Coldewey (Editor)
Call Number: PR1260 .E27 1993
The N-Town Play : Cotton MS Vespasian D.8 by Stephen Spector (Editor)
Call Number: PR1261 .C6 1991
The Macro plays: The castle of perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind, by Mark Eccles (Editor)
Call Number: PR1119 .A2
Everyman and Mankind by Gordon Kerr; Eric Rasmussen (Editor); Douglas Bruster (Editor)
Located in Madrid Gen. Collect

Bibliographies

Medieval English Drama : an annotated bibliography of recent criticism by Sidney E. Berger
Call Number: PR641 .B43 1990
Early English Drama, Everyman to 1580 : a reference guide by D. Jerry White
Call Number: PR641 .W44 1986
English Dramatic Interludes, 1300-1580 : a reference guide by Darryll Grantley
Call Number: PR643.I57 G73 2004

Concordances

A Concordance to the Chester Mystery Plays by Jean D. Pfleiderer; Michael J. Preston
Call Number: PR644.C4 P47 1981

A Concordance to the Plays of the Towneley Manuscript by Gerald B. Kinneavy
Call Number: PR644.T6 K5 1990
A KWIC concordance to the plays of the Wakefield Master by Michael J. Preston
Call Number: PR644.W3 P7 1982
A Concordance to the York Plays by Gerald B. Kinneavy; Richard Beadle (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR644.Y6 K56 1986

Secondary Sources

A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature by Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin (Editors)
Electronic Resource
Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain by Clifford Davidson
Call Number: PR641 .D37 2007
The N-Town Play : drama and liturgy in medieval East Anglia by Penny Granger
Call Number: PR644.E28 G73 2009
The Chester mystery cycle : a casebook by Kevin J. Harty (Editor)
Call Number: PR644.C4 C47 1993
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by Richard Beadle (Editor)
Call Number: PN2587 .C36 1994
Enacting the Sacrament: counter-Lollardy in the Towneley cycle by Lauren Lepow
Call Number: PR644.T6 L46 1990
Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints by Theresa Coletti
ISBN: 9780812238006
Publication Date: 2004