MEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster MEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster

• `Some Approaches to Dramatic Festivity, especially Processions'. - Meg Twycross`Festive Drama at Christmas in Aristocratic Households'. - Peter Greenfield`Christmas at the Inns of Court'. - Olga Horner`Rituals of Exclusion: Feasts and Plays of the English Religious Fraternities'. - Sheila Lindenbaum`Festive Profit and Ideological Production: Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas'. - Claire Sponsler`Palm Sunday Prophets'. - Mary C. Erler`Masks in the Medieval Peninsular Theatre'. - Ronald E. Surtz`Holy Week Performances of the Passion in Spain: Connections with Medieval European Drama'. - Rafael Portillo`The Auto Da Fé as Medieval Drama'. - Bob Potter`Carnival's End: Puritan Ideology and the Decline of English Provincial Theatre'. - John Cartwright`Chester's Midsummer Show: Creation and Adaptation'. - David Mills`The Wells Shows of 1607'. - James Stokes`The Bishop of Fools and his Feasts in Lille'. - Alan E. Knight`Battles and Bottles: Shrovetide Performances in the Low Countries (c.1350-c.1550)'. - Marjoke de Roos`Why a Peasant is Taught How to `Shoot': Rhetoricians, Militiamen and a Late Medieval Dutch Farce'. - Femke Kramer ***`Mankind: An English Fastnachtspiel?'. - Tom Pettitt`Two Carnival Plays from Late-Medieval Denmark'. - Leif Sondergaard`Analyzing French Farce and Dutch Pre-Renaissance Comic Drama'. - Wim Husken`Fastnachtspiel et recit bref: L'Interference de deux genres litteraires en Allemagne aux 15e et 16e siecles'. - Jean-Marc Pastre`Hocktide: A Reassessment of a Popular Pre-Reformation Festival'. - Sally-Beth Maclean``Slawpase fro the Myln-Whele': Seeing between the Lines'. - Malcolm Jones`The Medieval English and French Shepherds Plays'. - Christine Richardson`The Old Czech Apothecary as Clown and Symbol'. - Jarmila Veltrusky`Carnival's End: Puritan Ideology and the Decline of English Provincial Theatre'. - John Coldewey

A wide variety of critical approaches...focus on the plays and entertainments written for and performed on festive occasions in Spain, England, and northern continental Europe generally from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Twycross's volume weaves a rich tapestry of life during the late middle ages and Renaissance [and] makes a valuable contribution to the study of drama and society in these periods.

MEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster MEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster

• `Some Approaches to Dramatic Festivity, especially Processions'. - Meg Twycross`Festive Drama at Christmas in Aristocratic Households'. - Peter Greenfield`Christmas at the Inns of Court'. - Olga Horner`Rituals of Exclusion: Feasts and Plays of the English Religious Fraternities'. - Sheila Lindenbaum`Festive Profit and Ideological Production: Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas'. - Claire Sponsler`Palm Sunday Prophets'. - Mary C. Erler`Masks in the Medieval Peninsular Theatre'. - Ronald E. Surtz`Holy Week Performances of the Passion in Spain: Connections with Medieval European Drama'. - Rafael Portillo`The Auto Da Fé as Medieval Drama'. - Bob Potter`Carnival's End: Puritan Ideology and the Decline of English Provincial Theatre'. - John Cartwright`Chester's Midsummer Show: Creation and Adaptation'. - David Mills`The Wells Shows of 1607'. - James Stokes`The Bishop of Fools and his Feasts in Lille'. - Alan E. Knight`Battles and Bottles: Shrovetide Performances in the Low Countries (c.1350-c.1550)'. - Marjoke de Roos`Why a Peasant is Taught How to `Shoot': Rhetoricians, Militiamen and a Late Medieval Dutch Farce'. - Femke Kramer ***`Mankind: An English Fastnachtspiel?'. - Tom Pettitt`Two Carnival Plays from Late-Medieval Denmark'. - Leif Sondergaard`Analyzing French Farce and Dutch Pre-Renaissance Comic Drama'. - Wim Husken`Fastnachtspiel et recit bref: L'Interference de deux genres litteraires en Allemagne aux 15e et 16e siecles'. - Jean-Marc Pastre`Hocktide: A Reassessment of a Popular Pre-Reformation Festival'. - Sally-Beth Maclean``Slawpase fro the Myln-Whele': Seeing between the Lines'. - Malcolm Jones`The Medieval English and French Shepherds Plays'. - Christine Richardson`The Old Czech Apothecary as Clown and Symbol'. - Jarmila Veltrusky`Carnival's End: Puritan Ideology and the Decline of English Provincial Theatre'. - John Coldewey

A wide variety of critical approaches...focus on the plays and entertainments written for and performed on festive occasions in Spain, England, and northern continental Europe generally from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Twycross's volume weaves a rich tapestry of life during the late middle ages and Renaissance [and] makes a valuable contribution to the study of drama and society in these periods.

MEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster MEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster

• `Some Approaches to Dramatic Festivity, especially Processions'. - Meg Twycross`Festive Drama at Christmas in Aristocratic Households'. - Peter Greenfield`Christmas at the Inns of Court'. - Olga Horner`Rituals of Exclusion: Feasts and Plays of the English Religious Fraternities'. - Sheila Lindenbaum`Festive Profit and Ideological Production: Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas'. - Claire Sponsler`Palm Sunday Prophets'. - Mary C. Erler`Masks in the Medieval Peninsular Theatre'. - Ronald E. Surtz`Holy Week Performances of the Passion in Spain: Connections with Medieval European Drama'. - Rafael Portillo`The Auto Da Fé as Medieval Drama'. - Bob Potter`Carnival's End: Puritan Ideology and the Decline of English Provincial Theatre'. - John Cartwright`Chester's Midsummer Show: Creation and Adaptation'. - David Mills`The Wells Shows of 1607'. - James Stokes`The Bishop of Fools and his Feasts in Lille'. - Alan E. Knight`Battles and Bottles: Shrovetide Performances in the Low Countries (c.1350-c.1550)'. - Marjoke de Roos`Why a Peasant is Taught How to `Shoot': Rhetoricians, Militiamen and a Late Medieval Dutch Farce'. - Femke Kramer ***`Mankind: An English Fastnachtspiel?'. - Tom Pettitt`Two Carnival Plays from Late-Medieval Denmark'. - Leif Sondergaard`Analyzing French Farce and Dutch Pre-Renaissance Comic Drama'. - Wim Husken`Fastnachtspiel et recit bref: L'Interference de deux genres litteraires en Allemagne aux 15e et 16e siecles'. - Jean-Marc Pastre`Hocktide: A Reassessment of a Popular Pre-Reformation Festival'. - Sally-Beth Maclean``Slawpase fro the Myln-Whele': Seeing between the Lines'. - Malcolm Jones`The Medieval English and French Shepherds Plays'. - Christine Richardson`The Old Czech Apothecary as Clown and Symbol'. - Jarmila Veltrusky`Carnival's End: Puritan Ideology and the Decline of English Provincial Theatre'. - John Coldewey

A wide variety of critical approaches...focus on the plays and entertainments written for and performed on festive occasions in Spain, England, and northern continental Europe generally from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Twycross's volume weaves a rich tapestry of life during the late middle ages and Renaissance [and] makes a valuable contribution to the study of drama and society in these periods.