Medieval Drama

This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval drama available again at an affordable price.

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Edited by David Bevington

June 2012 - 1,104

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This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval drama available again at an affordable price.


 Contents:

Illustrations
Preface to the Houghton Mifflin Edition
Preface to the Hackett Edition
Some Observations on Language


PART ONE: Liturgical Beginnings

A. Dramatic Elements in the Liturgy of the Church
1. Concerning Tragedies (Honorius of Autun)
2. A Palm Sunday Procession in Fourth-Century Jerusalem (The Lady Etheria)
3. The Service for the Consecration of a Church (Bishop of Metz)
4. Adoration of the Cross (Regularis Concordia)
5. The Interment of the Cross in the Sepulchre (Regularis Concordia)
6. The Raising of the Host from the Sepulchre (St. Gall)
7. Antiphons for Easter Vespers
8. Antiphons with Responses for the Vigil of the Most Holy Easter

B. Tenth-Century Versions of the Visit to the Sepulchre
9. Trope for Easter (Limoges)
10. Of the Resurrection of the Lord (St. Gall)
11. The Visit to the Sepulchre (Regularis Concordia)
12. The Visit to the Sepulcrhe (Wincester)

C. Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Easter Drama
13. The Visit to the Sepulchre (Aquileia?)
14. The Visit to the Sepulchre (St. Lambrecht)
15. [The Service] for Representing the Scene at the Lord’s Selpulchre (Fleury)
16. The Service [for Representing] the Pilgrim, at Vespers of the Second Holy Day of Easter [Easter Monday] (Beauvais)

D. Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Christmas Drama
17. For the Mass of Our Lord (Limoges)
18. The Service for Representing Herod (Fleury)
19. [The Service for Representing] the Slaughter of the Innocents (Fleury)


PART TWO: Twelfth-Century Church Drama

1. The Service for Representing Adam
2. The Holy Resurrection
3. The Play of Daniel (Beauvais)
4. The Raising of Lazarus (Hilarius)
5. [The Service] for Representing the Conversion of the Blessed Apostle Paul (Fleury)
6. [The Service] for Representing How St. Nicholas Freed the Children of Getron (Fleury)
7. The Christmas Play (Benediktbeuern)
8. The Passion Play (Benediktbeuern)


PART THREE: The Corpus Christi Cycle

The Banns (N Town)
The Creation and the Fall of the Angels (Wakefield)
The Fall of Man (York)
The Killing of Abel (Wakefield)
Noah (Wakefield)
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Brome)
Pharoah (Wakefield)
The Ten Commandments, Balaam, Balak, and the Prophets (Chester)
The Annunciation (Wakefield)
The Salutation of Elizabeth (Wakefield)
The Birth of Jesus (York)
The Shepherds (York)
The Second Shepherds’ Pageant (Wakefield)
The Offering of the Magi (Wakefield)
The Flight into Egypt (York)
Herod the Great (Wakefield)
The Death of Herod (N Town)
The Woman Taken in Adultery (N Town)
The Raising of Lazarus (Wakefield)
The Passion Play (N Town)
The Buffeting (Wakefield)
The Scourging (Wakefield)
The Crucifixion of Christ (York)
Christ’s Death and Burial (York)
The Harrowing of Hell (Wakefield)
The Resurrection of the Lord (Wakefield)
Christ Appears to the Disciples (Chester)
The Last Judgment (Wakefield)


PART FOUR: Saints’ Plays or Conversion Plays

The Conversion of St. Paul (Digby)
Mary Magdalene (Digby)
The Play of the Sacrament (Croxton)


PART FIVE: The Morality Play

The Castle of Perseverence
Mankind
Everyman


PART SIX: Humanist Drama

A Mery Play Betwene Johan Johan the Husbande, Tib His
Wife, and Sir Johan the Preest (John Heywood?)
The Play of the Weather (John Heywood)
Wit and Science (John Redford)


Textual Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading