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1	Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays more books like this by A C Cawley (Editor) add to wishlist This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes marginal glosses and footnotes to explain difficult words and phraseology. Concentrating mainly on "Corpus Christi" pageants, this is a selection of medieval miracle plays. There is also a translation of the Cornish "Death of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.62! \| first editions \| SVS
2	York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling more books like this by Richard Beadle, Pamela M King add to wishlist This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of the cycle was governed by subject matter of enduring spiritual significance, both to its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.14! \| SVS
3	Medieval Drama more books like this by David Bevington add to wishlist see all copies from $18.00! new only from $108.93!
4	Medieval Mysteries, Moralities, & Interludes more books like this by V F Hopper (Editor), Lahey (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
5	Medieval Drama more books like this by Greg Walker (Editor) add to wishlist This comprehensive anthology brings together a diverse collection of dramatic writing from the late fourteenth century to the onset of the Renaissance. The volume presents for the first time the key plays of the period in their entirety, alongside more unusual selections, covering religious narrative, religion and conscience, and politics and ... see all copies from $22.81! new only from $48.01! \| SVS
6	The Wakefield Mystery Plays more books like this by Martial Rose add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.66! \| first editions \| SVS
7	English Mystery Plays: 2a Selection more books like this by Various, Peter Happe (Editor) add to wishlist Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably at Chester, York and Wakefield, were devoted to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.37! \| first editions
8	The Complete Plays of the Wakefield Master: In a New Version for Reading and Performance more books like this by John Russell Brown add to wishlist see all copies from $5.98!
9	The Middle English Mystery Play more books like this by Hans-Jurgen Diller, Frances Wessels (Translator) add to wishlist The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. Hans-Jurgen Diller's major study, first published in German, seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of language in conventional modes of speech, prayer, address and dialogue. He ... see all copies from $24.66! new only from $120.81! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Mary Play from the N.Town Manuscript more books like this by Peter Meredith (Editor) add to wishlist The "Mary Play" is a piece of medieval stagecraft rich in music and spectacle, and is the a play which deals with Mary's parents and her early life. It is also a play which centres on a prayer, the "Ave Maria", and which, in its devotional intensity, reflects the central concerns of the late 15th century lay piety. This volume presents the play as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.56!
11	Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder more books like this by T G Bishop, Dr. Stephen Orgel (Editor), Anne Barton (Editor) add to wishlist Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder, T. G. Bishop argues that wonder provides a turbulent space, rich at once in emotion and self-consciousness, where the nature and value of knowing is brought into question. ... see all copies from $16.07! new only from $35.00! \| SVS
12	English miracle plays, moralities, and interludes more books like this by Alfred W. Pollard add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! first editions
13	The York Cycle of Mystery Plays: A Complete Version more books like this by J. S. Purvis add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions
14	The Tempest as Mystery Play: Uncovering Religious Sources of Shakespeares Most Spiritual Work more books like this by Grace R W Hall add to wishlist The author identifies a strong biblical basis for The Tempest. Further, she demonstrates that the play''s use of biblical imagery, characters and concepts echos the way these elements were interpreted in the English Mystery Plays.' see all copies from $4.80! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages more books like this by Hardin Craig add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
16 view cover	The English Mystery Plays more books like this by Rosemary Woolf add to wishlist see all copies from $2.23! first editions
17	Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual more books like this by Jerome Taylor add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Mysteries: The Passion more books like this by Bernard Sahlins add to wishlist Following on his enormously successful The Mysteries: Creation, Bernard Sahlins has adapted the stories of The Passion to make an engaging drama for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45!
19	Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas more books like this by Joseph Q. Adams (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49!
20	English Miracle Plays more books like this by Alfred W. Pollard (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.50! first editions
21	Everyman & Medieval more books like this by A C Cawley (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| first editions
22	Traditions of medieval English drama more books like this by Stanley J. Kahrl add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! first editions
23	The Play Called Corpus Christi more books like this by V. A. Kolve add to wishlist see all copies from $2.55! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England more books like this by Claire Sponsler add to wishlist Provides a cultural and historical context for medieval popular drama. In Drama and Resistance, Claire Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she argues that many types of ... see all copies from $46.02! new only from $46.02!
25 view cover	The Mysteries: Creation more books like this by Bernard Sahlins, Nicholas Rudall (Editor) add to wishlist A new adaption by Bernard Sahlins of the medieval Mystery plays, in language available to a present-day American audience. Plays for Performance Series see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.28! \| SVS

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