The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama

by Christina M. Fitzgerald (Editor), John T. Sebastian (Editor)

The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been significantly broadened, and our understanding of certain medieval genres―most notably, biblical drama―has been fundamentally altered. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has been widely praised for the degree to which it has taken this scholarship into account in its selection of and presentation of medieval plays. Now Broadview launches a new anthology that takes those plays as its base while expanding very substantially beyond them to represent the full range of drama in English (and, where strong connections exist, in French, Latin, Cornish, and Welsh as well) through to 1576. In all, over forty plays are included. Each work has been fully annotated and is prefaced by a substantial introduction. In many cases the language is to some extent modernized in order to make the plays more accessible to readers today.

Genres: Reference, Plays

584 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2012

Reviews

[Hal · Rating 3 out of 5]

a really well down anthology but it was probably not meant to be read cover to cover like i did.

[Beth Bauman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read selections from this book for school, including various plays from the Townley and Chester cycles as well as The Play of Adam, Everyman, and Mankind.

[Phillip]

Hrothsvita of Gandersheim's Abraham: https://youtu.be/QRsCi8cfjKo

Babio: https://youtu.be/XwIRSquIKSg

Quem Quaeritis:

The Play of Adam:

The Fleury Play of Herod:

York Corpus Christi Plays
The Ordo Paginarum:
The Creation:
The Nativity:
The Shepherds:
The Slaughter of the Innocents:
The Crucifixion:
The Harrowing of Hell:
The Resurrection:
The Last Judgement:
The York Mercer's Indenture:

The Towneley Plays
The Creation: https://youtu.be/XtNyBxOfeks
The Wakefield Master's First Shepherd's Play: https://youtu.be/EGmGaQWrWhY
The Wakefield Master's Second Shepherd's Play: https://youtu.be/cOr3cY16rOw
The Wakefield Master's Herod the Great: https://youtu.be/i7Jr91QT540
The Judgement: https://youtu.be/iPPDfduwWB8

The Chester Plays
Play of Adam and Eve:
Play of Noah's Flood:
Play of the Shepherds:

The N-Town Plays
Mary Play:
The Nativity:

The Cornish Ordinalia
Noah and the Ark:
The Crucifixion:
The Death of Pilate:

The Welsh Biblical Plays, The Three Kings of Cologne: https://youtu.be/nBt5dt7_0i4

John Lydgate
A Disguising at Hertford Castle:
A Disguising at London:
Mumming at Eltham:
Mumming at Windsor:
Mumming for the Mercers of London:
Mumming for the Goldsmiths of London:
Mumming at Bishopswood:

The Croxton Play of the Sacrament:

Mankind: https://youtu.be/e2ln8RakNm4

Everyman: https://youtu.be/x6puf7oKAP0

Henry Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres:

The Interlude of Youth:

John Heywood's The Play of the Weather:

John Redford's The Play of Wit and Science: https://youtu.be/Oq2HLfCVdY4

Gammer Gurton's Needle:

Ulpian Fulwell's Like Will to Like: