ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter |5 pages

The Reynes Extracts

chapter |3 pages

The Durham Prologue

chapter |9 pages

Dux Moraud

chapter |17 pages

The Pride of Life

chapter |25 pages

Everyman

chapter |37 pages

Wisdom

chapter |31 pages

Mankind

chapter |15 pages

The Brome Abraham and Isaac

chapter |13 pages

The Norwich Grocers' Play

chapter |67 pages

The Digby Mary Magdalene