Everyman, and Medieval Miracle PlaysArthur C. Cawley Apart from the morality play "Everyman", this volume contains a completely new selection of biblical pageants, some of which ultimately go back to the Latin liturgical drama of the medieval Church. They are no less religious in origin and inspiration than the church architecture, painting and sculpture of the Middle Ages. Most of them are Corpus Christi pageants or guild pageants, i.e. short plays acted by the trade guilds as episodes of the whole Corpus Christi cycle. In Professor A.C. Cawley's completely revised and re-edited text, most of the original words of the plays are preserved, but for the convenience of the general reader many archaic forms and spellings are modernized or normalized both within the line and in rhyme. Original stage directions are given and those in Latin are translated. The Introduction and forewords to the individual plays will serve as guides to further reading. -- From publisher's description |
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... associated with the Passion in ecclesiastical art . But the Cain and Abel story 1 Chambers , ii . 349 ; Salter , p . 33 . 2 Rossiter , p . 51 . 3 e.g. in Queen Mary's Psalter , ed . Warner . The roof bosses in the nave of Norwich ...
... associated with the Passion in ecclesiastical art . But the Cain and Abel story 1 Chambers , ii . 349 ; Salter , p . 33 . 2 Rossiter , p . 51 . 3 e.g. in Queen Mary's Psalter , ed . Warner . The roof bosses in the nave of Norwich ...
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... similar plans for the Cornish plays ( Furnivall and Pollard , pp . xxxiii - iv ) . For a survey of the moralities see Chambers , English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages , pp . 49 ff . , and Craig , pp . 338 ff . For an inter ...
... similar plans for the Cornish plays ( Furnivall and Pollard , pp . xxxiii - iv ) . For a survey of the moralities see Chambers , English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages , pp . 49 ff . , and Craig , pp . 338 ff . For an inter ...
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... similar to part of the Sacrifice of Isaac in the Chester cycle . To account for the similarities in structure and language between the two plays it must be supposed that one is derived from the other , or both from a common original ...
... similar to part of the Sacrifice of Isaac in the Chester cycle . To account for the similarities in structure and language between the two plays it must be supposed that one is derived from the other , or both from a common original ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE York | 11 |
THE FALL OF MAN York | 17 |
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Abel abide Abraham Adam Adam and Eve Angel beast blessed bliss Caiaphas Cain Chester child Christ Cornish trilogy Corpus Christi Corpus Christi play Coventry dead dear death Deeds devil dight doth drama dread earth Elckerlijc EMPEROR English cycles evermore Everyman EXECUTIONER fain fare fast Fellowship give God's gone grace grieve Harrowing of Hell hath heart hell Herod hither holy ilka Isaac iwis Jesus king liturgical liturgical drama Lord Ludus Coventriae Mary medieval mercy messenger moral play never night Noah nought pageant pain Pilate play prophet rede SCENE Second Shepherds shalt thou sheep Shep Shepherds slain Sold sore sorrow soul sweet tarry tell thing thou art thou hast thou shalt trow truly unto VERONICA Wakefield ween wend Wife withouten woman wrought York York cycle ΙΟ