Specimens of the pre-Shaksperean drama : with an introd., notes, and a glossary /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Manly, John Matthews, 1865-1940 (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Ginn, 1897.
Series:Athenaeum press series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1. Dramatic tropes: I. Regularis concordia monachorum. II. Wiinchester troper
  • Easter dramatic office: St. John's, Dublin
  • Fragments of vernacular liturgical plays
  • Part I. Norwich Whitsun plays: Creation and Fall
  • Towneley plays: Noah's flood
  • Hegge plays: Noah and Lamech
  • Brome play: Abraham and Isaac
  • Towneley plays: Isaac. Jacob
  • Chester Whitsun plays: De Mose et Rege Balaak et Balaam propheta (processus prophetarum)
  • Hegge plays: The salutation and conception
  • Towneley plays: The second shepherds' play (Secunda pastorum)
  • Coventry plays: The pageant of the shearmen and taylors (The nativity and the slaughter of the innocents)
  • York corpus Christi plays: The resurrection
  • Chester Whitsun plays: Antichrist (Hengwrt version)
  • York corpus Christi plays: The Judgment Day
  • Part II. Digby plays: The conversion of St. Paul
  • The play of the sacrament
  • Part III. Robin Hood plays: Robin Hood and the knight. Robin Hood and the friar. Robin Hood and the potter
  • St. George plays: Oxfordshire play. Lutterworth Christmas play
  • The Revesby sword play
  • Part IV. Mankind
  • Mundus et infans
  • Hyck-scorner
  • Wyt and science / Jhon Redford
  • Nice Wanton
  • Part V. The foure PP / John Heywood
  • Part VI. Kynge Johan / John Bale.
  • Volume 2. Part VII. Roiseter doister / Nicholas Udall
  • Gammer Gurons Nedle / Mr. S., Master of Arts
  • Part VIII. Cambises / Thomas Preston
  • Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex / Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
  • Campaspe / John Lyly
  • James the Fourth / Robert Greene
  • David and Bethsabe / George Peele
  • The Spanish tragedie / Thomas Kyd.