• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 43, Pentecost

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 13, Joseph’s Troubles about Mary

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 20, Christ and the Doctors

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• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Introduction

light of this, a brief overview of the last years ofRichard II's reign might prove useful, by way of providing context for these poems. In early July 1397 the king arrested without warning his uncle, the duke of Gloucester,

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Introduction

Quarrel ofRichard II," p. 189. 17 Barron, "The Quarrel ofRichard II," p. 181. 18 Barron, "The Quarrel ofRichard II," p. 191. 19 Barron, "The Quarrel ofRichard II," p. 195. 20 Barron, "The Quarrel ofRichard II,"

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 12, The Annunciation to Mary and the Visitation

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 16, Herod Questioning the Three Kings and the Offering of the Magi

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 34, The Road to Calvary

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 9, The Flood

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 42, The Ascension

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 44, The Death of Mary

of the Virgin (Fergus) The York Corpus Christi Cycle: Play 44, The Death of Mary Play 44, THE DEATH OF MARY: FOOTNOTE 1 And they shall sing an antiphon, for example, “Hail, queen of heaven” Play 44, THE DEATH

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Introduction

11 REED: York, 1:109. 12 See REED: York, 1:187; in 1527 the Clerk’s deputy is named for the task (REED: York, 1:263). 13 For the text of this fragment, see York Plays, ed. Beadle, pp. 404–05. 14 REED: York, 1:351.

• Introduction to the Munday Plays

fearful of the unreliability of those he had to trust, Munday could hardly find a more gratifying pair of villains. In accordance with this socially conservative reconstruction of the myth, Munday's own career was that of a semi-official agent of

• Lydgate, Of the Sodein Fal of Princes in Oure Dayes

of Yrland. Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford (1362–92), was one ofRichard II’s favorites and was made duke of Ireland in 1386. In the Merciless Parliament of 1388, he was among the supporters ofRichard who were accused

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 38, The Resurrection

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 10, Abraham and Isaac

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 26, The Conspiracy

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• The Dispute between Mary and the Cross: Introduction

3, numbers of duality (as in the debate) and trinity. Meditation upon these lengths might suggest a cruciform shape, with a vertical base of eight units, a horizontal crossbar of nine, and a topmast of three. One manuscript of the

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 28, The Agony and Betrayal

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• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 32, The Remorse of Judas

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