N-Town Cycle | Timothy Fry (essay date 1951)
Timothy Fry (essay date 1951)
SOURCE: "The Unity of the Ludus Coventriae," in Studies in Philology, Vol. XLVIII, No. 3, July, 1951, pp. 527-70.
[By relating the doctrinal content of Ludus Coventriae to the writings of patristic authorities, Fry argues that the theory of the Redemption as a response to the devil's abuse of power unifies the cycle.]
Scholars have been pretty well agreed that the Ludus Coventriae, as the compilation of plays now stands, is [as Å. E. K. Chambers puts it in his English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages, 1945] "in a state of confusion." Studies devoted to the cycle as a cycle have been chiefly concerned with the stages in the development of the compilation of plays that comprise the Ludus Coventriae. As necessary as these studies were to clear the ground, they did not give a full understanding of the cycle, principally because the most important aspect was overlooked, or...
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