• Thomas of Hales, Love Rune

and R. M. Wilson, eds. Early Middle English Texts. New York: Norton, 1951. Pp. 103-09, 216-20. Dunn, Charles W., and Edward T. Byrnes, eds. Middle English Literature. Second ed. New York: Garland, 1990. Pp. 156-362. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English:

• Jack Upland: Introduction

(1970), 266-67, on the dating of JU, FDR, and UR. General Studies Coleman, Janet. Medieval Readers and Writers 1350-1400. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Hudson, Anne. The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988. Kendall, Ritchie

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: The Letter of John Ball (Royal MS)

4 5 6 N N N Littera Johannis Balle missa communibus Essexiae Johon Schep, som tyme Seynte Marie prest of York, and now of Colchestre, greteth wel Johan Nameles, and Johan the Mullere, and Johon Cartere, and biddeth hem that

• The Palis of Honoure: Introduction

London: J. Nichols, 1792. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1976. I, 51-141. The Palice of Honour By Gawyn Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld. Ed. J. G. Kinnear. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club 17 (1827). Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1971. The Poetical Works

• Sir Cleges: Introduction

Romances. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. II, 877-95. McKnight, George H. Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse. Boston: Heath, 1913; rpt. New York: Gordian Press, 1971. Pp. 38-59; 171-80. Morley, Henry. Shorter English Poems. London: Cassell, Petter rpt. New York: Gordian

• Poems of Political Prophecy: Introduction

poem on the battle of Shrewsbury: pp. 117-19.] Taylor, Rupert. The Political Prophecy in England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1911. Rpt. New York: AMS Reprint, 1967. [Still valuable study, with summaries of material. No index but an extensive chapter

• Literature of Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Introduction

ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. [Attempts to place John Ball and the Peasants' Rising in a context of what he terms "the egalitarian millennium." See especially pp. 198-200.] Coleman, Janet. Medieval Readers and Writers 1350-1400. New York: Columbia

• The Sinner's Lament: Introduction

Medieval and Renaissance Texts rpt. New York: Greenwood, 1969. Pp. 115-18. [Thornton.] Latin Analogue Speculum peccatorum. Ed. Clemens Blume and Guido M. Dreves. In Analecta hymnica medii aevi. Vol. 46. 1905; rpt. New York: Johnson, 1961. Pp. 349-51. Related Middle

• The Four Leaves of the Truelove: Introduction

the XIVth and XVth Centuries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Pp. 98-102, 301-03. York Plays 36 and 45 ("The Death of Christ" and "The Assumption of the Virgin"). Ed. Richard Beadle. In The York Plays. London: Edward Arnold, 1982.

• The Poems of Laurence Minot 1333-1352: Introduction

English lyrics and the York plays, collocations like "bargan dere thai boght," 7.64 ["this bargan sall be bought," York Plays 9 (Noah and his Wife): line 126]; "care es cumen," 8.8 ["oure cares ar comen," York Plays 6 (Adam and

• Sir Degare: Introduction

of 900 lines including an ending.] Early Printed (Black Letter) Editions Wynkyn de Worde, 4to; J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. [George Patterson Faust suggests a possible date of 1502-34 (see Sir Degare: The Texts and Their Relations, p. 4).

• Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham: Introduction

1882-98. Rpt. New York: Dover, 1965. Dobson, R. B., and J. Taylor, eds. Rymes of Robyn Hood: An Introduction to the English Outlaw. London: William Heinemann, 1976. Gairdner, James, ed. The Paston Letters A.D. 1422-1509. New York: AMS Press, 1965.

• The N-Town Plays: Introduction

religious play texts. The York, Chester, Coventry, and Norwich plays, as well as the documents from these other cities, depict a rich if incomplete picture about the religious plays produced by craft guilds such as the York Pinners (nail-makers) who

• The Pistil of Swete Susan: Introduction

question was daughter of Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and sister of Thomas Arundel (1354-1414), Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of York and of Canterbury. She married Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton (1342-73), to whom the alliterative romance

• The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament: Introduction

rationale for the making of the poem. It then proceeds to the story of creation. Like Cursor Mundi and the York Plays, the poem's creation story combines the two biblical creation stories of Genesis with legendary material of Lucifer's fall

• The N-Town Plays: Play 6, Moses

(with the Doctor’s fre­quent comments) points toward the Nativity. Woolf observes that the York Moses Play (and the Towneley version, which is a variant of the York play) follows the Speculum humanae sal­vationis in juxtaposing the Exodus from Egypt with

• The N-Town Plays: Note for Passion Play 1 (Plays 26–28)

John 18:1–20:18. The dramatic material in the N-Town Passion Plays roughly corresponds to these plays in English: Plays 25–39 from York, Plays 20–26 in the Towneley Manuscript, Plays 14–18 from Chester, and Christ’s Burial and Christ’s Resurrection from MS E.

• Erl of Tolous: Introduction

Everyman, 1992. Pp. 231-65. [Uses Cambridge Ff.2.38.] French, Walter Hoyt and Charles B. Hale, eds. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Russell rpt. Burt Franklin, 1960), for instance, separates them into groups related by similar plot motifs. The first grouping

• Items 12-13, An Evening Prayer and A Morning Prayer: Introduction

8). Text These two poems appear together in Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.21, and the Evening Prayer appears in New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G 9. The final stanza of A Morning Prayer appears independently in Durham Cathedral MS

• The Poems of Robert Henryson: Introduction

Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979. [A comprehensive study of Henryson's poems.] CCC. Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric. New York: Garland, 1993. [An "open thesis" study of Henryson's use of rhetorical tradition.] MacQueen, John. Robert Henryson. Oxford: The Clarendon