Early English Drama: An Anthology

by John C. Coldewey (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135778897
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/22/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	390
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John C. Coldewey

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Reynes Extracts; Chapter 3 The Durham Chapter 4 Dux Moraud; Chapter 5 The Pride of Life; Chapter 6 Everyman; Chapter 7 Wisdom; Chapter 8 Mankind; Chapter 9 The Brome Abraham and Isaac; Chapter 10 The Norwich Grocers’ Play; Chapter 11 The Digby Conversion of St. Paul; Chapter 12 The Digby Mary Magdalene; Chapter 13 The Digby Killing of the Children; Chapter 14 The Croxton Play of the Sacrament;