The definitive scholarly edition of The York Plays, first published in 1982, and now reissued with significant additional material, revised and updated in two volumes. Volume 1 contains the Introduction and Text, with an appendix containing the musical; Volume 2 (to be published in 2010) will contain the Explanatory Notes and Glossary. The cycle of the York Mystery Plays: the cycle of religious dramas on biblical subjects, ranging from the creation through the life and passion of Jesus Christ to the Last Judgement, is one of the great literary and theatrical monuments of the later Middle Ages in English. The plays were financed by merchants and master craftsmen and their guilds, and they express not only the essential theological and devotional beliefs of the time, but also the wealth, prestige, and economic vitality of the medieval city of York.

The York Plays: VoIume 1 The Text (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series)

Literature & Fiction

Beadle, Richard

Dramas & Plays

Early English Text Society

<p>This is the second volume to complete this definitive scholarly edition of the York Plays. It supersedes this editor's previous edition (of the text only), published in the York Medieval Texts Series in 1982. Volume 2 offers an entirely new, full commentary and glossary to facilitate study of the revised and corrected text (published with the Introduction in volume 1), and incorporating the most recent scholarly views and discoveries. The York Plays, a cycle of religious dramas on Biblical subjects, ranging from the Creation through the life and Passion of Christ, to the Last Judgement, are one of the great literary and theatrical monuments of the later Middle Ages in English. They were financed by merchants and master craftsmen and their guilds, and expressed not only the essential theological land devotional beliefs of their time, but also the wealth, prestige, and economic vitality of medieval York.</p>

The York Plays: A Critical Edition of the York Corpus Christi Play As Recorded in British Library Additional MS 35290 (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series)

St. John's College, Cambridge, Manuscript L.1: A Facsimile (The Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, V. 3)

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY

Griffiths, Jeremy

St. John's College (University of Cambridge) Library

Pilgrim Books

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre

Fletcher, Alan J.

Cambridge University Press

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