Medieval Drama Book

Introduction.

Acknowledgements.

Chronological Table.

Map of Britain.

Part I: Religious Narrative: The Biblical Plays:.

1. Introduction.

2. Map of the City of York.

3. The York Ordo Paginarum.

4. York (The Barkers), The Fall of the Angels.

5. Chester (The Tanners), The Fall of Lucifer.

6. York (The Coopers), The Fall of Man.

7. Chester (The Drapers), Adam and Eve.

8. York (The Pewterers and Founders), Joseph's Trouble About Mary.

9. York (The Tilethatchers), The Nativity.

10. Towneley, The Second Shepherds' Play.

11. Chester (The Paynters and Glaziers), The Shepherds.

12. York (The Skinners), The Entry into Jerusalem.

13. York (The Cuttlers), The Conspiracy.

14. York (The Bowers and Fletchers), Christ Before Annas and Caiaphas.

15. York (The Tapiters and Couchers), Christ Before Pilate I: The Dream of Pilate's Wife.

16. York (The Litsters), Christ Before Herod.

17. York (The Tilemakers), Christ Before Pilate II: The Judgement.

18. York (The Pinners), The Crucifixion.

19. York (The Saddlers), The Harrowing of Hell.

20. York (The Carpenters), The Resurrection.

21. York, The Mercers' Indenture (1433).

22. York (The Mercers), The Last Judgement.

23. N-Town, The Mary Play.

24. The Treatise of Miraclis Pleyinge (extracts).

Chester, The Post-Reformation Banns.

Matthew Hutton's Letter to the Mayor and Council of York (1567).

Part II: Religion and Conscience: The Moral Plays:.

25. Introduction.

26. Croxton, The Play of the Sacrament.

27. Wisdom.

28. Mankind.

29. Everyman.

Part III: Politics and Morality: The Interludes:.

30.Introduction.

31. Henry Medwall, Fulgens and Lucres.

32. John Skelton, Magnificence.

33. Godly Queene Hester.

34. John Heywood, The Four PP.

35. John Heywood, The Play of the Weather.

36. John Bale, John Baptystes Preachynge.

37. John Bale, The Three Laws.

38. Sir David Lindsay, Ane Satyre of The Thrie Estaitis:.

39. The Description of the 1540 Interlude.

40. The Thrie Estaitis (The 1552-54 text).

Textual Variants.

Glossary of Common Hard Words.

Index.