Dear Tom,
I did a graduate essay on the Mystery Cycle. I have included my works
cited, For nativity, the Second Shepherds play is wonderful with Mak doing
a parody on the divine birth. Joseph as Divine Cuckold is nother of my
favourites. Although my works cited are long - the following are what I used
for content on my paper,
In the Ludus Coventriae cycle, -"Noah", "Mother of Mercy", "Mother of Mercy:
Joseph", and "Birth of the Son"( this one is my particular favourite).
In the Townley or Wakefield Cycle - "Processus Noe Cum Filii" and, "Secunda
Pastorum".
In the Chester - "Noah's Flood", "Joseph", and "The Shepherds".
Regards
Carol
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The Catholic Encyclopedia. http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/10348a.htm
The Dictionary of the Middle Ages. New York: Scribners 8: (1987) 657-663
Gardner, John. "Theme and Irony in the Wakefield Mactacio Abel".
Publication of the Modern
Language Association of America. 80, 515-521
Prior, Sandra Pierson. "Parodying typology and the mystery plays in the
Miller's Tale"
The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 16:1 57-73
Rhys, Ernest Introd. Everyman and Other Interludes. London: Dent 1935
Wightmann, Carolyn L. "The Genesis and Function of the English Mystery
Plays". Studies in
Medieval Culture. 11:2 133-136
Works Cited
Bennett, Adelaide. "The Recalcitrant Wife in the Ramsay Abbey Psalter".
Equally in
God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages. Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S.
Wright, and Joan Bechtold. Eds. New York: Lang 1990 Page 40-45
Cawley, A.C. Ed. The Wakefield Pageants In the Townley Cycle. Manchester:
Manchester UP, 1958.
Davies, R.T. Ed. The Corpus Christi Play of the English Middle Ages.
Totowa, New
Jersey: Rowman, 1972
Gibson, Gail McMurray. "The Thread of Life in the Hand of the Virgin".
Equally in
God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages. Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S.
Wright, and Joan Bechtold. Eds. New York: Lang 1990 Pages 46-54
Hodges, Laura. "Noe's Wife: Type of Eve and Wakefield Spinner." Equally in
God's
Image: Women in the Middle Ages. Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright,
and Joan Bechtold. Eds. New York: Lang 1990 Pages 30 -39
Holloway, Julia Bolton, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold. Eds. Equally
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Image: Women in the Middle Ages. New York: Lang 1990.
Holloway, Julia Bolton, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold. Eds. "Woman
and the
Distaff." Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages. New York: Lang
1990. Pages 27-29
Hunt, Alison. "Maculating Mary: The Detractors of the N-Town Cycle's 'Trial
of Joseph
and Mary'". Philological Quarterly 73:1, 11-29.
Keane, Ruth M. "Kingship in the Chester Nativity Play". Leeds Studies in
English 1982,
13, 74-84
Mathews, Godfrey W. The Chester Mystery Plays. Liverpool: Howell, 1925
Mills, David. Ed. The Chester Mystery Cycle. East Lansing: Colleagues, 1992
Ormrod, W.M. Ed. England in the Fourteenth Century. Woodbridge, Suffolk:
Brewer,
1986.
Ross, Lawrence J. "Symbol and Structure in the Secunda Pastorum". Medieval
English
Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual. Jerome Taylor, and Alan H. Nelson.
Eds.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1972 Pages 177-211
Taylor, Jerome, and Alan H. Nelson. Eds. Medieval English Drama: Essays
Critical and
Contextual. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1972.
Travis, Peter W. Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle. Chicago: U of
Chicago P, 1982
Walsh, Walter W. "Divine Cuckhold/Holy Fool: The Comic Image of Joseph in
the
English 'Troubles' Play'. England in the Fourteenth Century. Woodbridge,
W.M. Ormrod. Ed. Suffolk: Brewer, 1986, Pages 278-297
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From: F. Thomas Luongo <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: Nativity--mystery plays
>
> One of my colleagues is planning to attend a performance of the Nativity
in
> London at the National Theatre (I think) and has asked me for background
> information. As usually happens when these questions come up, I find I'm
> unable to fulfill my role as house medievalist. Perhaps someone on the
> list could help. Is the play in question a performance of a particular
> version of the Nativity, and is there a written text available? Any
> recommendations for books on the subject to which I could send her for
> background? (And yes, I might should read'em myself!)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
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> F. Thomas Luongo
> Assistant Professor
> Department of History
> Tulane University
> New Orleans, LA 70118
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