General
**The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval English Theatre ed. Richard Beadle, Cambridge 1994.
R.W. Southern: Medieval Theatre
in the Round
R. Weimann: Shakespeare and
the Popular Tradition in the Theatre.
S. J. Kahrl: Traditions of Medieval
Drama
C. Richardson and J. Johnston,
Medieval
Drama, Macmillan 1991
N. Denny (ed.) Medieval Drama
(Stratford
on Avon Studies 16)
link to: medieval
drama index
Middle
English plays
a) Mystery Plays
You should read the plays of the
Wakefield Master, one of the Abraham and Isaac plays, and the York Harrowing
of Hell (in Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose): also the work of the 'York
Realist': York 26, 28-33, 36. ?
most available in Mystery Plays,
Penguin, ed. P. Huppé
R. Woolf: The English Mystery
Plays
V.A. Kolve: The Play called
Corpus Christi
J. Taylor and A. Nelson: Medieval
English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual (1972)
look at H-J. Diller: 'The Craftsmanship
of the Wakefield Master', J.W. Robinson: 'The Art of the York Realist'
and L.Ross. "Symbol and Structure in the Secunda Pastorum".
link to: York Doomsday project
b) Morality Plays
You should read Everyman,
Mankind, The Castle of Perseverance and Wisdom.
See especially P. Neuss' article
on Mankind in Stratford on Avon Studies 16, as above
R. Proudfoot, "The Virtue of Perseveraunce",
in Aspects of Early English Drama. ed. P. Neuss (1983)
Essay on Mankind, subversion
and carnival in D. Aers'(ed.) Medieval Ideology, Criticism, History.
(1986)
Gail McMurray Gibson, The Theater
of Devoiton: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages Chicago,
1989
links to:
Baragona's
medieval drama page
Hanly's medieval
drama page