Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging

Peter Meredith is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama at the University of Leeds, UK.John Marshall is Senior Research Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK.

• Introduction Part I: Matters of Manuscript and Text 1. ‘"Nolo Mortem" and the Ludus Coventriae Play of the Woman Taken in Adultery’, MӔ, 38 (1969), pp. 38-54 2. ‘A Reconsideration of Some Textual Problems in the N-Town Manuscript (BL MS Cotton Vespasian D viii)’, LSE, n.s. 9 (1976-77), pp. 35-50 3. ‘John Clerke’s Hand in the York Register’, Essays in Honour of A.C. Cawley, ed. by Peter Meredith, LSE, n.s. 12 for 1980-81 (1981), pp. 245-71 4. ‘The York Millers’ Pageant and the Towneley Processus Talentorum’ METh, 4.2 (1982), pp. 104-14 5. ‘Scribes, Texts and Performances’ in Aspects of Early English Drama, ed. by Paula Neuss (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1984), pp. 13-29 6. ‘The Towneley cycle’ in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, ed. by Richard Beadle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, second edition, 2008), pp. 134-62, 2nd edn, pp.152-82. 7. ‘Establishing an Expositor’s Role: Contemplacio and the N. Town Manuscript’ in The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre, ed. by Philip Butterworth (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 289-306 Part II: Resuscitating Records 8. ‘The Development of the Mercers’ Pageant Waggon’, METh, 1.1 (1979), pp. 5-18 9. ‘"Item for a grone – ijd" – Records and Performances’ in Proceedings of the First Colloquium at Ernindale College, University of Toronto, 31 Aug.-3 Sept. 1978, ed. by JoAnna Dutka (Toronto: Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto, 1979), pp. 26-60 10. ‘The Ordo Paginarum and the Development of the York Tilemakers’ Pageant’, LSE, n.s. 11 for 1979 (1980), pp. 59-73 11. ‘"Make the asse to speake" or Staging the Chester Plays’ in Staging the Chester Cycle, ed. by David Mills, Leeds Texts and Monographs, ns 9 (Leeds: Leeds School of English, University of Leeds, 1985), pp. 49-76 12. ‘The Fifteenth-Century Audience of the York Corpus Christi Play: Records and Speculation’ in ‘Divers Toyes Mengled’: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Culture in Honour of André Lascombes, ed. by Michel Bitot, Roberta Mullini, and Peter Happé (Tours: Université François Rabelais, 1996), pp. 101-11 13. ‘Professional Travelling Players of the Fifteenth Century: Myth or Reality?’ in European Medieval Drama 1997: Papers from the Second International Conference on Aspects of European Medieval Drama, Camerino, 4-6 July, 1997, ed. by Sydney Higgins (Camerino: Università Degli Studi di Camerino, 1997), pp. 25-40 Part III: Performance-Original and Modern 14. ‘Original-staging production of English medieval plays – ideals, evidence and practice’ in Popular Drama in Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages: A Symposium. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium organized by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at Odense University on 17-18 September, 1986, ed. by Flemming G. Andersen, Julia McGrew, Tom Pettitt and Reinhold Schröder (Odense: Odense University Press, 1988), pp. 65-100 15. ‘Mankind in Camerino: Playing the very devil and other matters’ Studies in Theatre Production, 16 (December, 1997), pp. 84-92 16. ‘Performance, Verse, and Occasion in the N-Town Mary Play’ in Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry, ed. by O.S. Pickering (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1997), pp. 205-22 17. ‘Carved and Spoken Words: The Angelic Salutation, The Mary Play and South Walsham Church, Norfolk’ in Porci ante Margaritam: Essays in honour of Meg Twycross, ed. by Sarah Carpenter, Pamela King, and Peter Meredith, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 32 (Leeds: School of English, University of Leeds, 2001), pp. 369-98 18. ‘The Sealing of the Tomb: N.Town and its Context’ in According to the Ancient Custom: Essays presented to David Mills, ed. by Phil Butterworth, Pamela M. King, and Meg Twycross, METh, 29 (2007), pp. 75-88

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