All books on one-day reserve.

PR 1261 Y67 1982 The York Plays, ed. Richard Beadle (London, 1982). This is the standard scholarly edition of the York play, in original spelling.

PR 1261 Y67 1984 York Mystery Plays: a Selection in Modern Spelling. ed. Richard Beadle and Pamela King. Oxford, 1984. This is our text.

PR 1260 Y6 The York Cycle of Mystery Plays, trans. Rev. J.S. Purvis (London, 1962). The York Play in a modern translation; this is the version that has been performed at York since 1951.

PR 1119 S8 no. 13 vv. 1 & 2 The Townley Plays, ed. Martin Stevens, EETS (Oxford, 1994). The (new) standard scholarly edition of the Wakefield plays.

PR 1260 T6 1962 The Wakefield Mystery Plays, ed. Martial Rose (New York, 1962). A modern translation of Wakefield/Townley.

PR 1119 S9 19 no. 3 vv. 1 & 2 The Chester Mystery Cycle, eds, R.M. Lumiansky and David Mills, EETS, (Oxford: 1974). The standard scholarly edition of the Chestery Play

PR 1261 C54 B87 1987 The Chester Mystery Cycle: a New Staging Text, ed. Edward Burns (Liverpool, 1987). A modernized performance text, the one that has been performed at Chester.

PR 1119 S8 no. 11-12 The N-Town Play, ed. Stephen Spector, EETS, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1991). The standard scholarly edition of the N-Town Plays.

PR 1260 M4 Medieval Drama, ed David Bevington (1975). A good anthology of medieval drama, including the Latin liturgical plays as well as easy-to-use texts from the mystery cycles (including a large selection of Wakefield).

PR 6058 A643 M9 1985 Tony Harrison, The Mysteries (London, 1985). The text of the play we saw the video performance of; it's an amalgam of York, Wakefield, Chester, and N-Town.

PN 2587 C36 1994 Cambridge Companion to Medieval Drama, ed. Richard Beadle (Cambridge, 1994). An excellent collection of essays, including one on each of the cycles.

PR 644 Y6 C6 1978 Collier, Richard J. Poetry and Drama in the York Corpus Christi Play. (Hamden, Conn., 1978).

PR 641 G37 1967 Gardiner, Harold C., S.J. Mysteries' End. (New Haven, 1946). The book that first made the argument that the mystery cycles did not die a natural death, but were forcibly ended by the Reformation in the reign of Elizabeth.

PR 644 W3 G3 Gardner, John. The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle. (Carbondale, 1974).

PR 644 E28 G53 1986 Gibson, Gail McMurray. The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages (Chicago, 1986). Has an excellent essay on "incarnational theater."

PR 643 C7 K6 Kolve, V.A. The Play Called Corpus Christi. (Stanford, 1966). The book from which the two essays in our reader came.

PR 643 C7 N4 Nelson, Alan H. The Medieval English Stage. (Chicago, 1974).

PR 641 A86 1983 Neuss, Paula. Aspects of Early English Drama. (Cambridge, 1983).

PR 643 M8 S7 1987 Stevens, Martin. Four Middle English Mystery Cycles. (Princeton, 1987). Good essays on each of the cycles.

PR 641 T3 Taylor, Jerome, and Nelson, Alan H. Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual. (Chicago, 1972).

PR 644 C4 T7 Travis, Peter W. Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle. (Chicago, 1982). Has important things to say about the phenomenon of Corpus Christi and relation of the feast to the plays.

PR 2978 W413 1978 Weimann, Robert. Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function. (Baltimore, 1978). An important book on the popular dramatic antecedents of Shakespeare.

PR 643 M8 W66 Woolf, Rosemary. The English Mystery Plays. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1972).