The York Plays: VoIume 1 The Text

by Richard Beadle

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199578474
Publisher:	Early English Text Society
Publication date:	12/13/2009
Series:	Early English Text Society Supplementary Series , #23
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Dr Richard Beadle is Reader in Medieval English Literature and Historical Bibliography, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

Table of Contents

IntroductionTextAppendixIndices