• In a Valley of This Restless Mind: Introduction

Knowledge, and New York: Macmillan, 1936. Pp. 167-71. [In modern spelling, based on Cambridge.] Donaldson, E. Talbot, ed. Poets of the English Language: I. Langland to Spenser. Ed. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson. New York: Viking, 1950. Pp.

• Sir Launfal: Introduction

Guingamor: Two Breton Lays, ed. and trans. Russell Weingartner (New York: Garland, 1985). For a critical edition, see E. Margaret Grimes, ed., The Lays of Desir, Graelent and Melion (New York: Institute of French Studies, 1928), pp. 76-101. 3 See

• Item 24, Sir Cleges: Introduction

Louise. The Christmas Knight. Illustrated by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan. New York: Macmillan Books, 1993. [Adaptation for children.] Darton, F. J. Harvey, and A. G. Walker, eds. A Wonder Book of Romance. New York: F. A. Stokes, 1907. Hadow, Grace Eleanor, and

• Prologue

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. 7 Thrugh mediacy of Mary chast. While there are aspects

• The Book of Margery Kempe: Introduction

Life of Jesus Christ: A Critical Edition. Ed. M. G. Sargent. New York: Garland, 1992. Meech, Sanford Brown, ed. The Book of Margery Kempe. EETS o.s. 212. New York: Oxford University Press, 1940, rpt. 1961. Windeatt, B. A., trans. The

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 33, The Second Trial before Pilate

ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O'Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesie Eboracensis; York Missal: Missale ad usum insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis. References to the Ordo paginarum are to REED: York,

• The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

Dame Ragnell. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1934. [Modernization with Introduction.] Whiting, Bartlett J. The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell. In Sources and Analogues in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." Ed. W. F. Bryan and Germaine Dempster. New York: Humanities Press, 1958.

• Ywain and Gawain: Introduction

Editions French, Walter H., and Charles Brockway Hale, eds. Ywain and Gawain (lines 1-1448). In Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Russell and Russell, 1964. Pp. 483-527. Friedman, Albert B., and Norman T. Harrington, eds. Ywain and Gawain. EETS o.s.

• Sir Orfeo: Introduction

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930; rpt. New York: Russell ty, Thomas J., ed. Medieval English Literature. Lexington, Mass: Heath, 1984. Pp. 349-64. [A text with twenty-four line prologue, as in French and Hale.] Gibbs, A. C., ed. Middle English Romances, York

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 30, The First Trial before Pilate

ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesie Eboracensis; York Missal: Missale ad usum insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis. References to the Ordo paginarum are to REED: York,

• Stanzaic Morte Arthure

Bruce. EETS e.s. 88. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1903. Rpt. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus, 1973. [This edition is the basis for most subsequent editions.] Le Morte Arthur. Ed. S. B. Hemingway. New York: Riverside Press, 1912. [Differs little

• Emar: Introduction

narrative structures, and the symbol of the cloth robe. In German.] Schlauch, Margaret. Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens. New York: New York University Press, 1927. [Examines figures of innocent queens who are besieged or exiled in medieval literature. Includes discussion

• The Avowyng of Arthur: Introduction

and Bagger, 1968. Dahood, Roger, ed. The Avowing of King Arthur. New York: Garland, 1984. Dass, Nirmal. The Avowing of King Arthur: A Modern Verse Translation. New York: University Press of America, 1987. Criticism Burrow, J. A. "The Avowing of

• King Horn: Introduction

Rosamund S., ed. King Horn. New York: Garland Medieval Texts, 1984. Hall, Joseph, ed. King Horn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1901 French, Walter Hoyt, and Charles Brockway Hale, eds. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. Gibbs, A. C.,

• The Dispute between Mary and the Cross: Introduction

EETS o.s. 117. 1901; rpt. New York: Greenwood, 1969. Pp. 612-26. [Vernon MS.] Morris, Richard, ed. Legends of the Holy Rood: Symbols of the Passion and Cross Poems. EETS o.s. 46. 1881; rpt. New York: Greenwood, 1969. Pp. 131-49, 197-209.

• Athelston: Introduction

New York: Prentice Hall, 1930. Pp. 179-205. Hartshorne, C. H., ed. "King Athelstone." In Ancient Metrical Tales. London: W. Pickering, 1829. Pp. 1-34. Hervey, Lord Francis, ed. Corolla Sancti Edmundi: The Garland of Saint Edmund King and Martyr. New York:

• Robyn and Gandelyn: Introduction

Sloane Manuscript 2593 (in British Library). Child, F. J., ed. Popular English and Scottish Ballads. 5 vols. 1882-98. Rpt. New York: Dover, 1965. Vol. III, no. 115. Dobson, R. J., and J. Taylor., eds. Rymes of Robin Hood. London: Heinemann,

• Introduction to the Munday Plays

In scene vii he clearly uses the theme of the ballad Robin Hood Rescuing Three Young Men; the Prior of York and Sir Doncaster come at some remove from the Gest and there may well be reference to Robin's orders

• Plowman Writings: Introduction

the Husbandman (Harley MS) Brandl, A., and O. Zippel, eds. Middle English Literature (Mittelenglische Sprach- und Literaturproben). 2nd ed. New York: Chelsea, 1949. [Good edition of Song on pp. 134-35.] RHR, pp. 7-9. Wright, Thomas, ed. Political Songs of England.

• Plowman Writings: Chaucer's Plowman

wages, or to the lazy labourers of estates satire or Piers's half-acre" (The Canterbury Tales, Oxford Guides to Chaucer [New York: Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 53). For another mention of labor shortages after the Great Plague of 1349, see