Specimens of the pre-Shaksperean drama

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Specimens of the pre-Shaksperean drama

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Table of Contents

Volume 1. Dramatic tropes: I. Regularis concordia monachorum. II. Wiinchester troper
Easter dramatic office: St. John's, Dublin
Fragments of vernacular liturgical plays
Part I. Norwich Whitsun plays: Creation and Fall
Towneley plays: Noah's flood
Hegge plays: Noah and Lamech
Brome play: Abraham and Isaac
Towneley plays: Isaac. Jacob
Chester Whitsun plays: De Mose et Rege Balaak et Balaam propheta (processus prophetarum)
Hegge plays: The salutation and conception
Towneley plays: The second shepherds' play (Secunda pastorum)
Coventry plays: The pageant of the shearmen and taylors (The nativity and the slaughter of the innocents)
York corpus Christi plays: The resurrection
Chester Whitsun plays: Antichrist (Hengwrt version)
York corpus Christi plays: The Judgment Day
Part II. Digby plays: The conversion of St. Paul
The play of the sacrament
Part III. Robin Hood plays: Robin Hood and the knight. Robin Hood and the friar. Robin Hood and the potter
St. George plays: Oxfordshire play. Lutterworth Christmas play
The Revesby sword play
Part IV. Mankind
Mundus et infans
Hyck-scorner
Wyt and science / Jhon Redford
Nice Wanton
Part V. The foure PP / John Heywood
Part VI. Kynge Johan / John Bale.
Volume 2. Part VII. Roiseter doister / Nicholas Udall
Gammer Gurons Nedle / Mr. S., Master of Arts
Part VIII. Cambises / Thomas Preston
Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex / Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
Campaspe / John Lyly
James the Fourth / Robert Greene
David and Bethsabe / George Peele
The Spanish tragedie / Thomas Kyd.

Edition Notes

Vol. 3, to contain an introd., notes, and a glossary, was not published.

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Boston
Series
The Athenæum press series

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Dewey Decimal Class
822
Library of Congress
PR1261 .M3

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Pagination
2 v.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24737187M
Internet Archive
specimensofpresh01manl
LCCN
12036516
OCLC/WorldCat
4888251

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