Specimens of the pre-Shaksperean drama, with an introd., notes, and a glossary 1

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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Vol.3, to contain an introd., notes, and a glossary, was not published Volume 1. Dramatic tropes: I. Regularis concordia monachorum. II. Wiinchester troper -- Easter dramatic office: St. John's, Dublin -- Fragments of vernacular liturgical plays -- Part I. Norwich Whitsun plays: Creation and Fall -- Towneley plays: Noah's flood -- Hegge plays: Noah and Lamech -- Brome play: Abraham and Isaac -- Towneley plays: Isaac. Jacob -- Chester Whitsun plays: De Mose et Rege Balaak et Balaam propheta (processus prophetarum) -- Hegge plays: The salutation and conception -- Towneley plays: The second shepherds' play (Secunda pastorum) -- Coventry plays: The pageant of the shearmen and taylors (The nativity and the slaughter of the innocents) -- York corpus Christi plays: The resurrection -- Chester Whitsun plays: Antichrist (Hengwrt version) -- York corpus Christi plays: The Judgment Day -- Part II. Digby plays: The conversion of St. Paul -- The play of the sacrament -- Part III. Robin Hood plays: Robin Hood and the knight. Robin Hood and the friar. Robin Hood and the potter -- St. George plays: Oxfordshire play. Lutterworth Christmas play -- The Revesby sword play -- Part IV. Mankind -- Mundus et infans -- Hyck-scorner -- Wyt and science / Jhon Redford -- Nice Wanton -- Part V. The foure PP / John Heywood -- Part VI. Kynge Johan / John Bale Volume 2. Part VII. Roiseter doister / Nicholas Udall -- Gammer Gurons Nedle / Mr. S., Master of Arts -- Part VIII. Cambises / Thomas Preston -- Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex / Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton -- Campaspe / John Lyly -- James the Fourth / Robert Greene -- David and Bethsabe / George Peele -- The Spanish tragedie / Thomas Kyd
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