Author: Peter Happé
Publisher: University of Wales - Religion
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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This volume provides a detailed overview of the Towneley cycle of plays, which were written c. 1500. The plays begin with the fall of Lucifer and end with the Last Judgement. Peter Happé examines the cycle's textual and manuscript history and discusses issues of language and style, the structure of the cycle, and its possible sources and analogues. He also addresses the historical and religious context of the cycle and its performance history.
Author: Garrett P J Epp
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherds Play.
Author: Arthur C. Cawley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Marie Caroline Lyle
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409215954
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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The Wakefield or Towneley Mystery Plays are a series of thirty-two mystery plays based on the Bible most likely performed around Corpus Christi day in (again, most likely) the town of Wakefield, England during the late Middle Ages until 1576. It is one of only four surviving English mystery play cycles.The unique manuscript, now housed at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, originated in the mid-fifteenth century. The manuscript came into the possession of the Towneley family in 1814, who lent their name it. Although almost the entire manuscript is in a fifteenth-century hand, the cycle was performed as early as the fourteenth century in an earlier form.The Wakefield Cycle is most renowned for the inclusion of "The Second Shepherds' Play," one of the jewels of medieval theatre.
Author: Richard Beadle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.
Author: Rod Townley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689843240
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Nothing ever changes inside the storybook kingdom inhabited by twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie, her parents, and many other characters until Sylvie discovers that by allying herself with the Reader she can experience new adventures beyond the confines of the book.
Author: Millicent Carey
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: John Townley
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892815685
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Move beyond a static interpretation of your natal chart to an understanding of how planetary cycles affect such things as one's career, finances, and opportunities. John Townley discusses the principles of dynamic astrology and shows how the cycles of the planets and important degrees in your chart play a continuing role in your life.
