• The N-Town Plays: Play 20, Slaughter of the Inno­cents; Death of Herod

a subject which is a separate and preceding play for Towneley (Play 15) and York (Play 18). Each version possesses its own characteristics, however. In York Play 19, Herod concludes that the soldiers have missed the Christ-child; in Chester Play

• The N-Town Plays: Play 25, Raising of Lazarus

only independent Lazarus plays. The Chester Glover's Play (Play 13) is combined with Jesus' Healing of the Blind Chelidonian; the York Capper's Play (Play 24) is in tandem with the Woman Taken in Adul­tery. All of these plays are based

• Prose Merlin: Introduction

---, ed. Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate Cycle and Post-Vulgate in Translation. Trans. Lacy et al. 5 vols. New York: Garland, 1993-96. Le Gentil, Pierre. "The Work of Robert de Boron and the Didot Perceval." In Arthurian Romance in

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Introduction

army, and set sail in June for Waterford, leaving England in the care of his ineffectual uncle, the duke of York. In France when he heard the news, Henry drew around him a small body of supporters, most of whom

• King Arthur and King Cornwall

therefore produces open strife, usually involving Mordred, Arthur's son by his sister. In his novel The Lyre of Orpheus (New York: Viking, 1988), Robertson Davies describes the production of an opera, Arthur the Cuckold, whose Arthurian themes of sexual anxiety

• The Bird with Four Feathers: Introduction

parce it hote."' Modern Philology 69 (1971-72), 323-25. Allen, Hope Emily. Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole. New York: Heath, 1927. Pp. 369-70. Fein, Susanna Greer. "Twelve-Line Stanza Forms in Middle English and the Date of Pearl." Speculum

• Dame Sirith

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Pp. 174-87. Garbáty, Thomas J., ed. Medieval English Literature. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1984. Pp. 442-54. McKnight. George H., ed. Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse. Boston: D. C. Heath rpt. New York:

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes: Introduction

49-64. Mosher, Joseph A. The Exemplum in the Early Religious and Didactic Literature of England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1911; rpt. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1966. [Compare the criticism and revision of this old account of the genre

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Trials and Joys of Marriage, Introduction

Parry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), p. 107. 22 Andreas Capellanus, p. 187. 23 See Natalie Zemon Davis' Foreword to the revised edition of The Book of the City of Ladies, trans. Earl Jeffrey Richards (New York: Persea Books,

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• Sir Tristrem

2229 ff. On the ordeal with the hot iron, see Ernest C. York, "Isolt's Ordeal: English Legal Customs in the Medieval Tristan Legend," SP 68 (Jan. 1971), 1-9. York notes that the ordeal "had gone out of use in England

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this