The Towneley Cycle
Title | The Towneley Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Happé |
Publisher | University of Wales - Religion |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Drama |
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This volume provides a detailed overview of the Towneley cycle of plays, which were written c. 1500. The plays begin with the fall of Lucifer and end with the Last Judgement. Peter Happé examines the cycle's textual and manuscript history and discusses issues of language and style, the structure of the cycle, and its possible sources and analogues. He also addresses the historical and religious context of the cycle and its performance history.
The Towneley Plays
Title | The Towneley Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Garrett P J Epp |
Publisher | Medieval Institute Publications |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 2018-02-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1580442846 |
The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherds Play.
The Towneley Cycle
Title | The Towneley Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Cawley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | English drama |
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Towneley Plays The Towneley Cycle
Title | Towneley Plays The Towneley Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 1976 |
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The Original Identity of the York and Towneley Cycles
Title | The Original Identity of the York and Towneley Cycles PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Caroline Lyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | English drama |
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Beadle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2008-07-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139827928 |
The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.
The Wakefield Group in the Towneley Cycle
Title | The Wakefield Group in the Towneley Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Millicent Carey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | English drama |
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