| Description |
457 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of world drama
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A Bantam classic ; NC173
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| Contents |
The Classical heritage. Dulcitius / Hrotsvitha -- Paphnutius / Hrotsvitha. |
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Pagan remains. A Christmas mumming : the Play of Saint [Prince] George. |
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The Christian ritual beginnings. The Quem Quaeritis trope -- A pantomime for Easter Day -- An Easter resurrection play -- The Orléans sepulcher. |
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The English passion play. The creation and fall of Lucifer -- Man's disobedience and the fall of man -- The first murder : the murder of Abel -- The deluge : Noah and his sons -- The Brome : Abraham and Isaac -- The second shepherd's play -- The pageant of the shearmen and tailors of Coventry -- The death of Herod -- The betrayal of Christ -- The (Wakefield) crucifixion -- The resurrection, harrowing of hell, and the last judgment. |
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The Cornish passion play. The Cornwall death of Pilate. |
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The morality play. Everyman. |
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The interlude. The play called the four pp / John Heywood. |
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Tudor comedy. Ralph Roister Doister / Nicholas Udall -- Gammer Gurton's needle / "Mr. S.". |
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Tudor tragedy. Gorboduc / Thomas Norton ; Thomas Sackville. |
| Subject |
English drama -- To 1500.
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.
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Passion-plays.
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