The Towneley Plays: Volume I: Introduction and Text

The new Early English Text Society edition of The Towneley Plays will serve as a definitive edition for many years to come. It replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard, published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. The Towneley Plays manuscript dates approximately to the year 1500. The plays it contains are often considered the most interesting and stylistically intricate among all those surviving in extant cycles.