Bibliography

Berger, Sidney E. Medieval English Drama: An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Criticism. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990, 500 p.

Offers "annotated entries for editions, collections, and scholarship of various kinds [concerning medieval drama]."

Criticism

Beadle, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 400 p.

Presents selected essays on medieval English theater, including discussion of the Chester, N-Town, Towneley, and York cycles.

Bethurum, Dorothy, ed. Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1958-1959. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960, 171 p.

Presents selected essays representing the reappraisal and "present vitality" of medieval literature criticism.

Dutka, JoAnna. Music in the English Mystery Plays. Early Drama, Art, and Music Reference Series, 2, edited by Clifford Davidson. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1980, 171 p.

Argues that music is essential to the production of the English mystery plays and examines the function of music within the plays through contemporary records of performance details.

Gayley, Charles Mills. "The Dramatic Development of the English Cycles." In Plays of Our Forefathers, pp. 144-52. Duffield and Company, 1907.

Discusses the role of the guilds in the secular-ization of drama and the social function of performances.

Nelson, Alan H. The Medieval English Stage: Corpus Christi Pageants and Plays. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1974, 288 p.

Aims "to discover how, when, where, and for whom the Corpus Christi plays were performed" and "to discover something about their origins."

Ruggiers, Paul G., ed. Versions of Medieval Comedy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977, 252 p.

Presents selected essays on comedy in medieval literature, including discussion of the English mystery cycles.

Sheingorn, Pamela, and Bevington, David. '"Alle This Was Token Domysday to Drede': Visual Signs of Last Judgment in the Corpus Christi Cycles and in Late Gothic Art." In Hono, Memento Mor Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama, by David Bevington and others. Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, pp. 121-45.

Examine the religious and dramatic function of the final judgment scene in the mystery cycle dramas.

Wickham, Glynne. Early English Stages, 1300-1660. 3 vols. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959-81.

Examines a variety of issues associated with medieval English theater, emphasizing the Church's adaptation of secular stagecraft to serve its own purposes.

——. The Medieval Theatre. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974, 245 p.

Examines the development of drama in Europe between the tenth and sixteenth centuries.

Young, Karl. The Drama of the Medieval Church, Vol. II. London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1933, 611 p.

Divides discussion into two sections: "Plays Associated with the Nativity," and "Plays Upon Other Subjects from the Bible and from Legends."