Early English Drama: An Anthology / Edition 1

by John C. Coldewey

Overview

This collection of plays from late-medieval England includes a rich selection of noncycle plays and morality plays along with some of the better-known pageants from the cycle plays and some theatrical fragments never before anthologized. These plays and fragments illustrate the most widespread early theatrical practices in England and represent drama that fed directly into the Elizabethan theatrical experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824054656
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/1993
Series:	Garland Reference Library of the Humanities Series , #1313
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	390
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Reynes Extracts; Chapter 3 The Durham Chapter 4 Dux Moraud; Chapter 5 The Pride of Life; Chapter 6 Everyman; Chapter 7 Wisdom; Chapter 8 Mankind; Chapter 9 The Brome Abraham and Isaac; Chapter 10 The Norwich Grocers’ Play; Chapter 11 The Digby Conversion of St. Paul; Chapter 12 The Digby Mary Magdalene; Chapter 13 The Digby Killing of the Children; Chapter 14 The Croxton Play of the Sacrament;