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References for Students of Miracle Plays and Mysteries
Supplement to the Report of the secretary of the Board of regents. I. Histories, essays and works for reference.--II. Editions of plays not English.--III. Mysteries and miracle plays in England.--IV. Table of extant English mysteries.
The English Mystery Plays
This important new study of the English mystery plays has a twofold purpose. It is concerned to investigate the antecedents of the four extant cycles and to demonstrate the dramatic value of the plays themselves The opening and concluding chapters place the plays in their historical context by discussing on the one hand the emergence and achievements of genuine religious drama (as opposed to liturgical drama) in the twelfth century and on the other the changes in taste that threw the plays into disrepute in the sixteenth century. The man part of the book analyzes the plays in detail, considering the iconographic and theological traditions that guided the dramatists in their treatment of biblical subject-matter, and also looking at the Continental drama of the time to find out what other dramatic possibilities were open to writers in the Middle Ages. -- From publisher's description.
A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries; Containing Ten Dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley Series, with Two of Latter Date
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Ancient Mysteries Described
Hone's summaries and excerpts from medieval Coventry plays or mysteries in the British Museum.
