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The Wakefield Pageants in the Towneley Cycle

Title: The Wakefield Pageants in the Towneley Cycle / edited by A.C. Cawley.
Publication: Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©1958.

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Additional Authors

Cawley, A. C. (Arthur C.)

Description

xxxix, 187 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This is an edition of the six complete pageants which together form the major part of the Wakefield Group in the Towneley cycle. Although they were probably written by the same playwright and are certainly among the best pageants written for the religious stage in medieval England, they have not been edited before as a group. Two, Magnus Herodes and the Coliphizacio, have not been reprinted since 1897, except by the Early English Text Society in its reprints of the Towneley Plays which it first published in that year. Furthermore, every edition of a Towneley pageant published since 1897 has been based on the EETS text, without reference to the manuscript itself which is in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. The text of the edition presented here is newly transcribed from photographs of the manuscripts, and this transcription has resulted in several improved readings. This is the first book in the Series of Old and Middle English Texts under

Series Statement

Old and Middle English texts

Uniform Title

Towneley plays.
Old and Middle English texts.

Subject

Genre/Form

Texts.
Texts

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. xxxiv-xxxviii.

Contents

Introduction. The manuscript -- The Wakefield Group -- Influences on the Wakefield pageants -- The staging of the pageants -- The Wakefield playwright's use of language -- The author -- Date -- Dialect -- Select bibliography -- Note on the edited text -- Text. 1. Mactacio Abel -- 2. Processus Noe cum filiis -- 3. Prima pastorum -- 4. Secunda pastorum -- 5 Magnus Herodes -- 6. Coliphizacio -- Notes -- Appendices. -- 1. Two documents concerning the Wakefield Corpus Christi play -- 2. Metre -- 3. Linguistic indications of date -- 4. Mak's imitation of southern English.

ISBN

0719001196
9780719001192
0719006066
9780719006067

LCCN

a 60003585

OCLC

ocm00517520
517520
SCSB-14568438

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Princeton University Library