Pamela M. King & Greg Walker 
Medieval English Theatre 37 [PDF ebook] 
The Best Pairt of our Play. Essays presented to John J. McGavin. Part I

Essays on aspects of early drama, including in this volume a focus on the Towneley plays.


Editors: Sarah Carpenter, Pamela M. King, Meg Twycross, Greg Walker.
Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatreand pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together with analyses of modernsurvivals or equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays.

This volume includes essays on spectatorship, audience reception and records of early drama, especially in Scotland, besides engaging with the current interest in the Towneley Plays and the history of its manuscript.

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The Places of Foolery: Robert Armin and fooling in Edinburgh – Sarah Carpenter

George Bannatyne’s ‘Sertane Mirry Interludis’, and Sir David Lyndsay’s play – Janet Hadley Williams

The Linlithgow Interlude of 1540 and Lyndsay’s
Satire of the Thrie Estaitis – Greg Walker

Stage Directions in Lyndsay’s
Ane Satire of the Thrie Estaitis – Peter Happe

The Dramatic Voice of William Dunbar – R D S Jack

How to Track a Bear in Southwark: a learning module – Tanya Hagen and Sally-Beth Mac Lean

The Digby
Mary Magdalen in Performance: a merry peripeteia – Bob Godfrey

‘Thus am I Rent on Rode’: taking apart the Towneley
Crucifixion – Garrett P.J. Epp

The Second Shepherds’ Play: a play for the Christmas season – Alexandra F. Johnston

‘They did not come out of an Abbey in Lancashire’: Francis Douce and the manuscript of the Towneley Plays – Meg Twycross

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MEG TWYCROSS is professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies at University of Lancaster