• The N-Town Plays: Play 40, Pentecost

The N-Town Plays: Play 40, Pentecost Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition Spiritus Sanctus descendat super eos, et cetera.1 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 PETRUSHonowre, ANDREASwurchipp, JACOBUS MAJORand reverens, JOHANNESGlorye, PHILIPPUSgrace,

• Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom: Introduction

Bevington, David, ed. The Macro Plays: A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcription. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972. Coldewey, John, ed. Early English Drama: An Anthology. New York: Garland, 1993. Eccles, Mark, ed. The Macro Plays. EETS o.s. 262. London: Oxford

• Poems of Political Prophecy: When Rome is Removed

rivers will run with blood" (trans. Thorpe, p. 175). On this, see Rupert Taylor, The Political Prophecy in England (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911), pp. 44-45. For the b half-line Haferkorn reads: on Kynon the nobyll. 24 and wrethe

• Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction

252, 255, 257, and 262.] Tucker, Samuel Marion. Verse Satire in England Before the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1908; rpt. New York: AMS, 1966. [See chapters 2 and 3 for material on the Latin and English traditions of

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: Introduction

of Scotland, Advocates' MS. 19.2.1. With an Introduction by Derek Pearsall and I. C. Cunningham. London: The Scolar Press; New York: The British Book Centre, 1977. [A folio-sized facsimile edition.] Hardwick, Charles, ed. A Poem on the Times of Edward

• Book of Ruth

French Paraphrase, British Library, MS Egerton 2710, cited by folio and column; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. 4441 both wyld and tame. See note to line 4440.

• The N-Town Plays: Play 1, Creation of Heaven; Fall of Lucifer

differently, Towneley addresses the creation of the heavens, earth, Adam and Eve and the fall in one long play. And York, possibly due to its abundance of active guilds, portrays the fall of the angels in one play (Play 1),

• The N-Town Plays: Play 5, Abraham and Isaac

the same practice of God speaking through angels rather than in person in the N-Town Noah Play, and also in York, Northamp­ton, and Brome Abraham plays. As precedent see the Viel Testament (S 2:428). 78 Ysaac, thi sone, anon thu

• The N-Town Plays: Play 12, Joseph's Doubt

6 (at the beginning of the Nativity); in Towneley Play 10 (after the Annunciation but before the Visitation); and in York Play 13 (after the Visitation but before the Nativity). Even though the play is based on Matthew 1:18–25, this

• The N-Town Plays: Play 19, Purification

Play 11, a large portion of the Coventry Weav­ers' Pageant (lines 176–718), York Play 17, Towneley Play 17, the Digby Candlemass Play, and N-Town's. The Towneley and York plays concentrate on Simeon and Anne's prophecies regarding the Christ-child. Chester and

• The Awntyrs off Arthur: Introduction

M. Dent Ltd.; Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1992. Pp. 161-82. Shepherd, Stephen H. A., ed. Middle English Romances. New York: Norton, 1995. Pp. 219-42. [I have not been able to examine a copy of this edition.] Criticism Allen, Rosamund.

• The Castle of Perseverance: Introduction

MS. V.a.354 (Macro Manuscript) EDITIONS AND FACSIMILES Bevington, David, ed. The Macro Plays: A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcription. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972. Pp. 1–154. ———. Medieval Drama. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Pp. 796–900. Eccles, Mark, ed. The

• Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne: Introduction

the whole myth. Selected Bibliography Texts Child, F. J. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vol. (1882-98). Rpt. New York: Dover, 1965. Vol. III, no. 118. Dobson, R. B., and J. Taylor. Rymes of Robyn Hood. London: Heinemann, 1976.

• Robin Hood and the Potter: Introduction

E.e.4.35. Child, F. J., ed. English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882-98. rpt. New York: Dover, 1965. Vol. III, no. 121. Dobson, R. B., and J. Taylor. Rymes of Robin Hood. London: Heinemann, 1976.

• The Tale of Ralph the Collier: Introduction

Dept. of English, University of Sydney, 1989. The Tale of Ralph the Collier: An Alliterative Romance. Ed. Elizabeth Walsh. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Criticism Barron, W. R. J. English Medieval Romance. London: Longman, 1987. Pp. 181B82. Oakden, J. P.

• Book of Genesis

French Paraphrase, British Library, MS Egerton 2710, cited by folio and column; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. 41–48 God . . . with Hys Word hath wroght.

• The N-Town Plays: Play 39, Ascension; Selection of Matthias

but numbered 39 in the manu­script), is the briefest (95 lines) of all the extant English versions (Towneley Play 29, York Play 42, and Chester Play 20). These Ascension plays are two to four times longer than N-Town’s, but all

• Item 27, Ypotis: Introduction

these lines has been made. Printed Editions Gardiner-Scott, Tanya. “The Missing Link: An Edition of the Middle English Ypotis from York Minster MS XVI.L.12.” Traditio 46 (1991), 235–59. Gruber, H., ed. “Zu den mittelenglischen Dialog Ipotis.” Dissertation. Berlin, 1887. [An

• Robin Hood and the Monk

when Robin steals eight hundred pounds from a fat-heded monk (line 364), who is the cellarer of St Mary's Abbey, York. 83-86 By reporting to the sheriff the presence of Robin Hood in the church, the monk has violated the

• Robin Hood and the Potter

hands; hence, the need for clean hands. As Norbert Elias observes, in The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners (New York: Urizen Books, 1978), table manners were adopted by the bourgeois during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (p. 62). This